Trump's 60th presidential rally received 2 1/2 hours of cable news coverage before it even began

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Cable news fell for Trump’s campaign launch gimmick


https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/06/19/cable-news-fell-trump-s-campaign-launch-gimmick/223972

Trump’s 60th presidential rally received 2 1/2 hours of cable news coverage before it even began


June 19, 2019 2:26 PM EDT

Melisaa Joskow / Media Matters

President Donald Trump held his 60th rally since becoming president last night in Orlando, FL, and while the event was virtually identical to his past 59 rallies, the media was still fooled into giving Trump and his rally significant coverage -- before it even began.

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Even though some outlets acknowledged that Trump has actually been running for reelection since the day he was inaugurated, media still flocked to cover last night’s event, giving it significant attention throughout the day. In the lead-up to the rally, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News all had extensive pre-rally coverage featuring multiple correspondents reporting live from the rally site. In total, the cable news networks devoted nearly 2 1/2 hours of coverage to Trump’s rally before the president even set foot on stage. Fox News had nearly an hour and a half of pre-rally coverage, while CNN and MSNBC devoted 28 minutes and 35 minutes, respectively.

When it came to airing the rally itself, MSNBC avoided airing the event, similar to the way it has treated Trump’s previous rallies in 2019. Fox News aired the rally in its entirety, and CNN -- which had only aired a cumulative minute and a half of the president’s first five 2019 rallies -- aired eight minutes of it. CNN’s Brian Stelter noted in his newsletter that while CNN and Fox News both aired the beginning of Trump’s speech live, “after five minutes it was clear that Trump didn't have anything new to say.”

But demonstrating that the media have learned nothing from 2016, cable news networks subjected their audiences to endless images of Air Force One, the stadium attendees, and the empty podium along with repetitive chyrons reading “Trump departs,” “crowds filling arena,” and “Trump lands in Orlando”:........................................

[spanone]

1. trump is good for the cable stooges....ratings is all that matters.

[trev]

2. For Trump, it is literally true that

all the world's a stage.

[appalachiablue]

3. The beat goes on, another day, another dollar.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. Unless Democrats stop watching they will keep doing it.

The deplorables do not have enough numbers to make it worth it to them to cover him unless you are fox news. The minute I see his ugly face I change the channel. If I know it is all about him, I don't watch at all.

[underpants]

5. Sounds like the campaign

Trump had many of his failed products displayed on a folding card table while Bernie had 10,000 (possibly 20) in Wisconsin. Guess which made it on the air.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. One could see this coming

once we passed New Years. Programing on the News Talkee Shows was tilted hard to the Right,this is nothing surprising,this same crap started in the same time frame of 2015 and just accelerated as the year past.

The Ponzi King is doing Call in Shows every day and will continue until Nov of 2020.

[Firestorm49]

8. Could care less. Can't stand looking at him or listening to his voice.

[live love laugh]

9. "...the media was still fooled...". Fooled? No. Complicit? Yes . nt