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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
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
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
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/
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'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'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/ 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
For leadership in holding accountable public officials who joined in the Big Lie and the attempt to de-certify the election, don'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/
