Eric Boehlert: If Biden lied like Trump, he wouldn't be allowed on TV

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/if-biden-lied-like-trump-he-wouldnt

If Biden lied like Trump, he wouldn't be allowed on TV
Normalizing GOP convention
Eric Boehlert

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We know the lying will be ceaseless because untruths define Trump's presidency. He uses the avalanche of falsehoods not just for partisan political gain, but to chip away at our democracy — to undermine the country's faith in shared facts. Given that precedent, does television news bear some responsibility for helping Trump spread dangerous lies about a raging public health crisis, by granting him a primetime platform four nights running?

"It is a genuine dilemma," Mark Lukasiewicz tells me. He's the Dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University and served as Senior Vice President of Specials at NBC News. "News networks should not knowingly propagate lies and disinformation."

I'd wager that if Democratic nominee Joe Biden lied the way Trump does — without pause, and without apology — he wouldn't be allowed on TV. Because television news would never normalize a Democratic madman.


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We don't know what Trump's speeches this week will include, but based on recent comments from him it's certainly possible these wild and false claims will be included in his primetime address:

• The FDA is covering up a cure for the pandemic.

• Democrats want to keep schools closed so polling places won't be open in November.

• Students are "almost immune" to the virus.

• Voting by mail spreads the virus.

• Covid-19 will soon "disappear" and we're in the "closing moments of the pandemic."

• 99% of Covid-19 infections are harmless.

• The CDC is "lying" about the pandemic.

If Joe Biden peddled lies like this, he wouldn't be allowed on TV.

[kentuck]

1. It' not that difficult to resolve.

After each speech, take a few minutes to call out each lie and clear up each "misstatement".

"We regret to inform the viewers that we need to correct the facts on a few statements that the President made:"

Then, get back to normal broadcasting.

[UpInArms]

2. ...

"We regret to inform the viewers that we need to correct the facts on all statements
that the President made:"

There ... I fixed that for you.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. Or how about this...

Run the “live” debates on a 30 second delay. Have graphics ready for display then mute his microphone while running those graphics across the bottom. “Gross Misstatements” ... “Inaccurate Representation”...”Too Racist”...”Incitement of Violence”.

Feel free to add your own!

[Gothmog]

4. TV networks should expect that the GOP convention will be a "major medical and political disinformat

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