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bigtree

(85,999 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:10 AM Jan 2019

Network Execs Needn't Imagine Broadcasting Trump's Address Will Stop His Attacks On Them

Matthew Gertz @MattGertz 10m10 minutes ago
Shout-out to the network news executives who let the president lie to their audiences because they were afraid that if they turned him down he would attack them. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/01/09/last-nights-oval-office-debacle-should-be-lesson-networks/222469 …

"Take your co-conspirators to lunch day at the White House"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211641404

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Network Execs Needn't Imagine Broadcasting Trump's Address Will Stop His Attacks On Them (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2019 OP

No good deed Fuzzpope Jan 2019 #1

Network executives are cowards PJMcK Jan 2019 #2

Fuzzpope

(602 posts)

1. No good deed

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Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:18 AM

Jan 2019

Goes unpunished.

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)

2. Network executives are cowards

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Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:41 AM

Jan 2019

Their fealty to profits blinds them to real journalism.

While there are a few exceptions, the major networks kowtow to Trump and will continue to do so. They are so afraid of his attacks.

Instead, they should go on the offensive against Trump.

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