The NABJ interview with Trump provides a model for media coverage
Trump’s #NABJ appearance also afforded #Harris the opportunity later on Wednesday to 🔸rebuke his hateful rhetoric in a way that made him look like a sad has-been. 🔸
“It was the same old show. The #divisiveness and the #disrespect,”
she declared in a speech in Houston.
“And let me just say: The American people deserve better. The American people deserve better.”
She continued, “The American people deserve a leader who tells the #truth,
a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the #facts.
We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us.
They are an essential source of our #strength.”
🌟That’s how one puts Trump in his place without getting into a personal spat with him.
🌟No other single interview or media encounter with Trump in this cycle has laid bare as much about the candidate or opened him up to as much criticism.
👍Kudos go to Scott and her co-moderators in Chicago.
The NABJ interview also raises a troubling question:
❓What’s wrong with the rest of the media?❓
Not one question in the CNN-hosted debate with Trump and President Biden on June 27 confronted Trump about #racism or #antisemitism.
(As to the latter, there has been inadequate coverage
— certainly not on the front page of most papers or headlining cable news
— devoted to Trump’s disparaging comments that ...
any Jew who does not support him is a “fool” and “should have their head examined,”
or agreement with a radio host who called Harris’s husband
a “crappy Jew❗️”)
CNN’s debate moderators
🔹did not ask about pardons for Jan. 6. insurrectionists.🔹
Unfortunately,
too many in the mainstream political media have been 🔹taken in by Republican spin. 🔹
The preposterous suggestion that,
after the assassination attempt,
Trump might have “changed,”
entertained as a possibility by far too many outlets
(as The Post’s Philip Bump and a select number of other commentators pointed out),
unsurprisingly turned out to be
#wishful #thinking.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/04/nabj-trump-interview-media-coverage/