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1 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If you work in journalism, please please please god when he makes this lie, the biggest lie of his presidency, *do not repeat it* and PLEASE if you absolutely have to, say Trump Falsely Claims Victory
I don't know who you are or if you give a fuck about what any of us think but here are some ways you can cover Trump's huge lie without repeating it-
WOW IF ONLY THERE WERE A PODCAST ABOUT THIS VERY SPECIFIC SCENARIO IN WHICH I ASK JOURNALISTS NOT TO REPEAT TRUMP’S LIE AND NOT TO TAKE HIM LIVE
Isaac was the first person I talked to about this. Everyone had a suspicion it was going to happen. Now is the time, if you work in news, to figure out what you’re going to do about it.

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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
2 Nov
Journalists, please get this right

Yesterday Trump announced the plan to steal PA votes: "As soon as that election's over, we're going in with our lawyers"

This is not process, it's theft

I called PA's AG to talk about why the media needs to call this what it fucking is
Trump just said this all out loud. And the news media broadcast it as if it's just part of the democratic process. This is so deeply and soggily fucked up. If you work in a newsroom, over the next 24 hours, please speak up. I will venmo you. What do u want
A micro-nightmare I have inside my Big Nightmare is Trump’s lawyers muddy the Steal The Election plan with briefs, lawsuits, legal claims, jargony stuff—new confusing words and other bullshit that journalists will default into covering as “the campaign says…"

It’s just stealing
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
1 Nov
Imagine putting this lying piece of shit on TV every week and never challenging a fucking thing he fucking says fucking hell we are so fucking fucked
the media is so fucking bad and it will never get better it just won't
miller: doctors are inflating covid deaths for profit
george: so you believe that
miller: yes there are reports
george: wow
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
1 Nov
On Nov. 4 Trump will hold a press conference to lie and say he won

Instead of asking "why do you think you won" the press should ask "why haven't you conceded to Biden?" The headline would be Trump Refuses To Concede instead of Trump Says He Won

WE GOT 2 DAYS TO GET THIS RIGHT
Playboy reporter @BrianKarem was the first WH reporter to ask Trump if he'd commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Yeah it's one of the most important questions Trump has been asked and it came from fucking Playboy. Anyway thanks to Brian for taking my call :)
Instead of watching a Republican-boosting bullshit show like Meet the Press this morning you should listen to this instead especially if you work in news media and think your organization has failed to cover Trump properly, here are some great tips inside! Secret tips! god dammit
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
30 Oct
Every indication points to Trump lying on election night and claiming victory. And the media is likely to repeat that lie.

My plea: Can we please say "Trump FALSELY claims victory" instead?

I DM'd some journalists to talk about it — and some wrote back! I recorded our convos:
Thank you to the PR people at media companies who allowed their journalists to talk to me for a non-Hardball on MSNBC segment about how not to fuck up election night coverage
This conversation with @IsaacDovere finally answers the question so many of you have: Was Matt a good reporter when they worked together at @politico? Answer: not really!
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
28 Oct
Journalists should be framing this as "The president admits he does not recognize the name of the person who provided him routine intelligence briefings, undermining his and the White House's lie that he pays attention during his briefings"
You might even say objectively that the president confirmed that he hasn’t paid attention to his routine intelligence briefings, a daily presidential event that appears on his official schedule and in February contained crucial information about the coronavirus that he missed
This isn’t Trump being Trump. It’s not Trump lashing out at Miles. It’s not Another Trump Tweet. It’s the president confessing that he doesn’t know the people in the room who give him his intelligence briefings that he’s supposed to get every day to keep us safe. So say it.
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Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC Profile picture
26 Oct
Everyone celebrated @kwelkernbc even though she got worked by the Trump campaign and asked about Hunter Biden, a story manufactured in bad faith, and this morning said Biden "confused his opponent's name" by saying "George" even though he was talking to George Lopez
Our news media would be so much better if journalists admitted their errors, not just slip-ups but real systemic errors. You can be a near-perfect moderator and still fuck up. You can challenge a Trump lie one day and help him smear Biden another day. It's not binary.
Even if Biden *had* confused Trump's name, it's weird to think that counts as news. It's like a 2008 gaffe meter still goes off in journalists' heads. Except here it was obviously an effort to answer the question "we say Trump did something bad, did Biden do something bad also?"
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