Chris Hayes right on target tonight about how the news media should cover a seditious candidate

[lees1975]

Hit the nail on the head, pointing out that the guy should be labelled as a danger to democracy, that his candidacy is nothing more than continuing the coup, revenge and his lies shouldn't be given attention. The thing that news should focus on his his danger to democracy.

I've thought all along that the media legitimizes him by covering him without paying any attention to the content of his message or the danger he poses to democracy. It's just business as usual and its money.

[JohnSJ]

1. The question is will he be given a free pass like MTG given with the 60 minute s interview?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

3. Greene was hardly given a "free pass" on 60 Minutes.

Greene came off like the dangerous extremist loon that she is.

That was important work by Lesley Stahl, exposing Greene to a mass audience.

[JohnSJ]

6. There are quite a few who disagree with that assessment

“ Following the release of the sit-down, Stahl was criticized for allowing Greene to hijack the conversation, failing to adequately call out the lawmaker’s false claims, and normalizing the extremist’s unhinged behavior.
“I have known Lesley Stahl for more than 40 years, worked alongside her for many election weeks. She has been a great journalist, but this is a disgraceful, cringeworthy performance. Shameful to the max,” tweeted Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-60-minutes-parkland_n_642a522be4b02a8d518f6014/amp

and if you called Sthal pushing back when MTG characterized Democrats as a party of pedophiles, it was a pretty lame pushback.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/03/cbs-marjorie-taylor-greene-60-minutes-backlash

[Just A Box Of Rain]

8. Lesley Stahl was criticized here on DU before the segment even aired.

Color me unimpressed by such "criticisms."

I watched the show live on-air. Lesley Stahl did this country a great service.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. The same Chris Hayes who tried to take Joe Biden down by promoting the bogus sexual assault charges

of Tara Reade, and who tried to blame the overturning of Roe on Democrats?

That Chris Hayes?

How does he still have a job at MSNBC?

[arthritisR_US]

16. I wonder that every day

[sheshe2]

4. Chris Hayes is an idiot.

I never watch him.

[Silent Type]

5. If media remind people he is a cad; liar; under investigation for Jan 6th and classified

documents; falsely claims he won in 2020; in a civil rape trail; about to be indicted in Atlanta; is indicted in NYC for hush money and more; etc., media should let him talk with appropriate rebuttal. It won’t help him.

[chillfactor]

7. I enjoy listening to Chris Hayes

too bad some people have a problem with him.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

9. He sure enjoys attacking Democrats.

[Skittles]

10. CNN is dead to me

but then, they have been for some time now

[moonscape]

12. Hayes is on MSNBC

[Skittles]

13. sorry I though the subject was CNN's coverage of Trump

acting like he is normal

[moonscape]

14. Yeah, past my bedtime :)

[Skittles]

15. heh

I know the feeling!

[Rhiannon12866]

11. I really liked his report, too - said what a lot of us were thinking. Here's the video:

Trump town hall: How the media covers a seditious presidential candidate - All In - MSNBC
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017825602

"I find it very hard to defend the choice to give Trump a live platform," says Chris Hayes. "But that's one of the challenges he presents as networks begin the work of campaign coverage during a presidential election which centers on the guy who tried to kill American democracy." - Aired on 05/03/2023.