Fox News lets President Trump lie on live television, for hours and hours

[DonViejo]

By Erik Wemple
July 9 at 1:56 PM

If you’ve tuned in to Fox News on the wrong night in recent weeks, you’ll see President Trump ad-libbing it before a crowd of approving red-hatters in some boisterous arena. It looks like some random night from the early months of the 2016 campaign — complete with the nonsensical and offensive remarks, the slams on the media and so on.

The debate about airing those rallies is pretty much the same, as well. “I am inside the machine looking out and wondering what the hell we’re all doing,” said Vox.com editor at large Ezra Klein in a chat with Brian Stelter on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “So I do want to ask the question. One, what are we crowding out when we give these — when we let him decide what we cover every time he does a rally, right? What are we crowding out? What would have happened in another administration?”

The answer to that last question, as always: something far more normal.

Data from Media Matters — a chief critic of Fox News — reflects an imbalance among the top-three cable-news outlets in live coverage of recent Trump rallies:



Those dollar-value numbers are based on live rally coverage from April 28 through July 5, with Fox News tallying nearly eight hours, MSNBC eight minutes and CNN zero. What an inversion from two years ago: CNN provided so much live coverage of Trump rallies during the presidential campaign that it took heat for tipping the scales in his favor. The prolific live coverage prompted a mea culpa from CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker. “If we made any mistake last year, it’s that we probably did put too many of his campaign rallies in those early months and let them run,” Zucker said at Harvard in fall 2016.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Zucker should be ashamed, and MSNBC.

They gave the moron free advertising at all his rallies. They showed an empty stage and podium for 20 min waiting for the man/baby to show up. Meanwhile Hillary wanted to speak about real issues and her plans but no one would give her more than a few minutes.

[Garrett78]

2. Not to mention people like Andrea Mitchell going out of their way...

...to talk even more about Clinton's server. They'd be talking about some other matter but then interject with something about Clinton's server or emails as if it was big breaking news.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I personally hold a lot of so called Dems responsible for helping to elect the moron.