FYI everyone please watch the entire segment. #LawrenceODonnell seriously GOES OFF! on the #media / #press / #journalists / #CableNewsNetworks / #NewsOutlets etc for their utterly #irresponsible & #imbalanced coverage / questioning of #Trump vs #Biden & the #BidenAdministration.
He was brilliant.
More of this please.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism
“All of the networks knew [the speech] was coming, they knew what time it was coming, they knew how to cover it live & they didn’t after giving Donald #Trump more than an hour of live coverage on all of their networks. It’s 2016 all over again,” he said.
#LawrenceODonnell added that he would “correct that mistake” by airing #Harris’ appearance in Michigan in full.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism
O’Donnell’s full segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD-oTJ49nls
“Donald Trump is not smart enough to answer questions. Anyone who then tells you that #KamalaHarris has to answer questions from reporters because Donald #Trump already answered questions from reporters is #lying to themselves & to you & you must not allow them to do it” #LawrenceODonnell said.
O’Donnell also called out #CableNewsNetworks for not covering #Harris’ speech in #Michigan live as they did w/Trump’s presser.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism
#LawrenceODonnell read #Trump’s exact answer to the yes or no question, adding, “The words Donald Trump spoke to those reporters in response to that clear, simple & important yes or no question were an insult to everyone in that room, & they took the insult. Nothing in those words was an answer, nothing.”
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press
O’Donnell then highlighted #Trump’s inability to answer reporters’ questions at the press conference. The newscaster highlighted a question from #NBCNews reporter #GarrettHaake, who asked Trump if he would direct the #FDA to revoke access to #mifepristone.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press
#LawrenceODonnell noted that “every network has the capacity, especially w/these wide screens we now have at home, to run a live scroll at the side of the screen” to #FactCheck #Trump in real time.
The #MSNBC anchor used as an example when Trump said #KamalaHarris wasn’t smart enough to run a press conference, the network could’ve noted her academic accomplishments.
#TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press
“It would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today that did not include AT LEAST one lie,” #LawrenceODonnell said on his show. “Some of the networks tried to play catchup w/ #FactChecking after Donald #Trump finished speaking but, that of course, is way too late & utterly useless. No network even attempted to check every lie Donald Trump told.” [I gave up after the effort induced a migraine]
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press
Thank you #LawrenceODonnell
Lawrence O’Donnell had #TheLastWord on Thurs night on #MSNBC. The news anchor called out the #media, including his network, for covering #Trump‘s press conference in full & ignoring #KamalaHarris.
O’Donnell took to his late-night show to blast the media for not #FactChecking Trump, who held a “press event” in his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, saying, “It was 2016 all over again.”
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #The4thEstate #ResponsibilityInJournalism #Journalism #press
@jennycohn has been writing about this and posting it and where the fvvk is the press on this.
#christiannationalism #Christofascism
#writers #4thEstate #The4thEstate
1st thought: Cool!
The #gamification of fact checking might be a nice check and balance.
Might even bring a renewed focus on a methodological rigor and basic research. #academia #PeerReview
2nd thought:
‘Checks and balances’ aren’t really working out so well for democracy.
I think the US mass media and “journalism” have hitched their wagon to fascism. Anything for a buck and a book deal. #MassMedia #Media #Journalist #Journalism #News #Newspapers #Fascists #4thEstate #The4thEstate #USPolitics
