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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tears into his own network for airing Trump press conference without fact-check

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell tore into the major cable news networks, including MSNBC, on Thursday after they aired former President Donald Trump’s press conference live and didn’t “fact-check every lie” he told.

O’Donnell then complained that “to make a bad news coverage situation worse, none of the networks – none of them – carried Kamala Harris’ speech live after the Trump appearance. None of them.”

O’Donnell concluded, “It’s 2016 all over again. The same mistakes are being made. I have never seen an industry slower at learning from its own stupid mistakes than the American news business, and you cannot expect them in the next 89 days to figure out what they haven’t been able to figure out in nine years: how to cover a Trump for president campaign.”

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Fapper_McFapper ,

I think this is the most honest a news segment I’ve ever seen in my life. Great job Mr. Lawrence O’Donnell, I’d love to buy you a beer!

dcpDarkMatter ,

He famously doesn't drink alcohol, but I'm sure he'd appreciate something else. :)

Fapper_McFapper ,

I’ll buy him a root beer or whatever non alcoholic drink he chooses. Thank you for informing me!

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I watched both the Trump conference and O’Donnell’s take live and, yeah, he has a point.

The feed I had, you couldn’t hear the reporters questions at all. So all you could hear was Trump and there was no way to know what the actual question was based on his answers.

But nobody follows up on ANY politician and it’s been that way for a couple of decades now.

The classic example I always cite is one that happens all the time:

“Well, we’re going to get rid of job-killing regulations.”

The logical follow up question would be:

“Can you cite an example of a regulation you’d get rid of and in what way it’s a job killer?”

But nobody ever asks that question.

Vorticity ,

I think the more egregious part is that all of the networks covered Trump’s press conference, then failed to cover Harris’ speech. Giving air time to one candidate and not the other is not balanced reporting. It is giving free publicity to one candidate over the other. They went to Trump’s house on short notice rather than cover Harris’ public speech with plenty of notice.

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. Same as 2016…

“We’re live outside the venue where Trump is about to speak in just 7 short hours…”

Bernie Sanders hosts 30,000 people? Crickets.

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Maybe it’s not a mistake.

TheTechnician27 ,
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world avatar

MSNBC is owned by NBCUniversal is owned by Comcast. Any publicly traded corporation – let alone one making over $100 billion in annual revenue – will trample over anyone and anything – democracy itself included – in service of its bottom line. They exist solely to grow without bound as fast as possible like a cancer.

xmunk , (edited )

Don’t let the company be faceless - it lets them escape accountability. The executive team at Comcast are willing to destroy democracy for a slightly higher bonus.

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Ackchyually, it’s the their major shareholders.

DxK ,

Corporate media are doing everything they can to usher in a dictatorship that will see the end of freedom of the press. And if Trump wins in November, they will deserve it. The problem, of course, is they’re going to drag all of us along with them.

Phegan ,

Trump gets rating. MSNBC is a corporation. The primary objective of corporations is to raise shareholder value. They have no requirements to tell the truth or do what’s best for Americans. They will do whatever helps their shareholders and if that is ushering in a second trump presidency, they will do it.

Dipbeneaththelasers ,

The segment: youtu.be/ZD-oTJ49nls?si=Nw811XFtixpvDmr3

teegus ,

Damn, that got me a little hard and I’m not even american

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