Read on Twitter
Rick Scott of Florida voted to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. Sunday he will be on @ThisWeekABC with @GStephanopoulos, the most prestigious platform @ABC can bestow. What does the new president of ABC News, @KimGodwinTV, think about that? Hat tip, @MattNegrin https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1386032190933245955">https://twitter.com/ThisWeekA...
Number of questions @GStephanopoulos asked @SenRickScott about his vote to overturn election results in Pennsylvania: zero.
Number of gestures toward that kind of accountability: also zero.
@ABC News policy appears to be amnesty.
He did ask about this: https://twitter.com/scottforflorida/status/1381606880070492167?lang=en">https://twitter.com/scottforf...
Number of gestures toward that kind of accountability: also zero.
@ABC News policy appears to be amnesty.
He did ask about this: https://twitter.com/scottforflorida/status/1381606880070492167?lang=en">https://twitter.com/scottforf...
Time to put the question directly to news executives and show hosts at the major networks: What is the policy — and what is your thinking — about featuring on air those who voted to overturn results of the 2020 election? https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-TRUMP/LAWMAKERS/xegpbedzdvq/">https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-TRUMP...
It will help them and us to know.
It will help them and us to know.
Some options for major networks re: Republicans who voted to overturn the election.
1. Politics moves on and so are we: amnesty
2. Invite and confront: televised accountability
3. Report what they& #39;re doing but no platform on air
4. Decide not to decide, hope it dies down
5. ...
1. Politics moves on and so are we: amnesty
2. Invite and confront: televised accountability
3. Report what they& #39;re doing but no platform on air
4. Decide not to decide, hope it dies down
5. ...
Media reporters who can get the responsible parties on the phone: over to you! @Brianstelter @grynbaum @farhip @sarafischer @dbauder @davidfolkenflik @katie_robertson @davidzurawik @joepompeo @sulliview @oliverdarcy @sarahellison @maxwelltani @ErikWemple cc @jimwindolf
Every time I post on this topic, people ask me: who watches the Sunday shows any more? (Usually they add: "I quit long ago.") TV audience is not huge: between 3 and 5.5 million a week. Revenues are modest. In 2019, Meet the Press brought in $26 million for NBC.
The reason I attend to the Sunday shows is not that they have a big audience or cultural imprint. Rather, they crystallize consensus practice in journalism, and display in miniature its relationship to the political class. These are things I study and write about. So I watch.
I have been writing about these weaknesses in the Sunday show format for 11 years: https://publicnotebook.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/david-gregory-no-i-wont-fact-check-my-guests/">https://publicnotebook.wordpress.com/2010/04/1... Recently the journalism profession itself has taken up the cry, as with this @NYTmag piece: "How the Trump Era Broke the Sunday-Morning News Show." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/magazine/how-the-trump-era-broke-the-sunday-morning-news-show.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/1...
For leadership in holding accountable public officials who joined in the Big Lie and the attempt to de-certify the election, don& #39;t look to @GStephanopoulos or @chucktodd. Look to @witfnews in Harrisburg, PA, a public broadcaster who has figured it out: https://www.witf.org/2021/01/28/countering-the-big-lie-witf-newsrooms-coverage-will-connect-lawmakers-with-their-election-fraud-actions/">https://www.witf.org/2021/01/2...
