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Specifically that National News controlled by professional journalistic outlets which set the tone and heavily moderated what the public saw. I have been watch

by papaf 6y ago

Specifically that National News controlled by professional journalistic outlets which set the tone and heavily moderated what the public saw. I have been watching a lot of TV news lately. As far as I know, professional journalists haven't deplatformed Trump. You make a great point but I can't help feeling that its cowardly big Tech cosying up to the new president after years of being cosy with the outgoing one.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
Many times journalists live on TV have cut away from the President when he’s devolved into lying during press conferences. Is that not deplatforming?
- CogitoCogito 6y ago
  Is it though? News organizations have always chosen which portions of presidents' speeches/conferences to broadcast. They've always made editorial decisions as to which parts they consider important. This is just seems like another dimension to that sort of consideration.
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  - formerly_proven 6y ago
    How often did CNN cut-off a live transmission of POTUS speech to interject that POTUS is literally lying before Trump came along?
    - CogitoCogito 6y ago
      > How often did CNN cut-off a live transmission of POTUS speech to interject that POTUS is literally lying before Trump came along? How often has CNN's editorial staff found presidents to repeat what CNN considers to be blatant provable lies in the past? I mean what are they supposed to do? I agree that this sort of thing is unprecedented, but in many ways Trump is unprecedented.
    - afavour 6y ago
      There’s a base assertion in your comment that all Presidents should be treated equally. If one President lies by an order of magnitude more than other Presidents, shouldn’t they be treated differently?
klyrs 6y ago
I was listening to a live interview (with a political analyst, about trump) on the radio when Trump made his final tweet. They mentioned that he'd tweeted, but said "we're not going to read that right away," and after a little bit they read an excerpt prepared by a producer. Remember his Four Seasons (Landscaping) presser? There was a lot of news about it but the event itself didn't get much play. Even Fox News has been cutting away from his fact-free tirades.
perl4ever 6y ago
> I can't help feeling that its cowardly big Tech cosying up to the new president If that was how it worked, wouldn't they have done it before Wednesday, and wouldn't they have done similar after the previous election?

by papaf 6y ago

toomuchtodo 6y ago

Many times journalists live on TV have cut away from the President when he’s devolved into lying during press conferences. Is that not deplatforming?

CogitoCogito 6y ago
Is it though? News organizations have always chosen which portions of presidents' speeches/conferences to broadcast. They've always made editorial decisions as to which parts they consider important. This is just seems like another dimension to that sort of consideration.
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- formerly_proven 6y ago
  How often did CNN cut-off a live transmission of POTUS speech to interject that POTUS is literally lying before Trump came along?
  - CogitoCogito 6y ago
    > How often did CNN cut-off a live transmission of POTUS speech to interject that POTUS is literally lying before Trump came along? How often has CNN's editorial staff found presidents to repeat what CNN considers to be blatant provable lies in the past? I mean what are they supposed to do? I agree that this sort of thing is unprecedented, but in many ways Trump is unprecedented.
  - afavour 6y ago
    There’s a base assertion in your comment that all Presidents should be treated equally. If one President lies by an order of magnitude more than other Presidents, shouldn’t they be treated differently?

klyrs 6y ago

I was listening to a live interview (with a political analyst, about trump) on the radio when Trump made his final tweet. They mentioned that he'd tweeted, but said "we're not going to read that right away," and after a little bit they read an excerpt prepared by a producer. Remember his Four Seasons (Landscaping) presser? There was a lot of news about it but the event itself didn't get much play. Even Fox News has been cutting away from his fact-free tirades.

perl4ever 6y ago

> I can't help feeling that its cowardly big Tech cosying up to the new president If that was how it worked, wouldn't they have done it before Wednesday, and wouldn't they have done similar after the previous election?