Major News Networks Skip Live Carriage Of TFG's Ohio Rally

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump’s latest rally was another greatest hits of media attacks, 2020 election falsehoods and long-held and more recent grievances, and while it drew a large in-person crowd in Wellington, Ohio, it did’t get an audience on the three major cable news networks.

The reason: They didn’t carry it.

C-SPAN carried the rally as part of its Road to 2024, as Trump is a potential candidate in the next election, and it also drew coverage on right wing outlets Newsmax and One America News Network. Fox News stayed with its Saturday night lineup of Watters World and Justice with Judge Jeanine; CNN featured an interview with former Vice President Al Gore, among other segments, and MSNBC had The Week with Joshua Johnson.

A big question following the 2020 presidential election was the level of coverage that news networks would give to Trump, who has the news value of being a potential contender in 2024. Yet as a former president no longer in the White House, he doesn’t automatically warrant attention for his every utterance.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/major-news-networks-skip-live-022404963.html

[KentuckyWoman]

1. What is TFG?

I don't know what it stands for.

Please and thank you.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. The Former Guy

Many of us feel saying his name feeds his ego.

[KentuckyWoman]

3. I like it. And thank you.

[GopherGal]

8. Yes, it stands for "The Former Guy"...

but if you want to imagine a less genteel version of the "TF", that works, too. (That's my mnemonic from when I couldn't remember if it was "previous guy" or "former guy".)

[SharonClark]

9. What utter nonsense.

Does Trump read DU?

Name-calling may make the name-caller feel clever and feed the name-caller’s ego but it has no impact on Trump.

[niyad]

10. Nobody said it did.

[Polly Hennessey]

11. But it sure makes me feel good.

[obamanut2012]

12. This has nothing to do with DU

TFG is all over social media, talk shows, and even quite a few pundits are using it.

It isn't "name calling" at all. It is refusing to give him the usual respect and honorific of "President," that all former-Presidents are routinely given.

Good grief, the stuff some DUers get twisted up about.

[Niagara]

14. The term "The Former Guy or TFG" was coined by President Biden.

It's not name-calling, it's what he is. I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that anyone is name-calling.

[Boomerproud]

4. Shame on Cspan.

Don't they get taxpayer money?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. They Do Not

They're funded by the cable & satellite industries. Of course, that means some small portion of our bill goes to them
But, it's a private entity funded by industry.

[obamanut2012]

13. No

[underpants]

6. What the hell am I doing in the middle of Ohio?

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. Honestly

I think they should barely give it a mention. Treat the bastard like a third-party candidate.

[Poiuyt]

15. Treat the bastard like a dangerous fascist candidate

Because that is what he is

[Jilly_in_VA]

16. Be wary

but stop giving him publicity because that's what he craves and thrives on. Just keep the FBI on him, not the media.