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TV interviewers: counting legal votes is not stealing; this is not something you have to entertain as a “reasonable partisan disagreement” just because the president’s team is saying it and “We can’t look like we’re taking sides.” https://mobile.twitter.com/saletan/status/1322912856153739266
I don't like piling on in Twitter dunk contests but good God. There is plenty of room in this tweet to add, "This is false" or something before you gingerly imply that Miller is full of it in the next tweet. https://twitter.com/rickklein/status/1322915720615890944
A first principle you learn in journalism is: "Tell your audience what's going on in plain direct language." I must have missed the part where they add, "Unless the story is really important and involves powerful people, in which case be as vague and euphemistic as possible."
This whole ABC fiasco this morning points up something I've been thinking about heading into Tuesday: my biggest concerns w/r/t covering bad-faith claims on TV is actually the old-line broadcast networks.
With Fox News, friendliness to Trump is pretty much priced in now. They could actually make a difference if, as in 2012, they assertively back up their decision desk over their political commentators. (But 2012 was a long time ago.)
CNN and MSNBC have branded themselves pretty strongly on pushing back on Trump disinformation--the likes of Tapper et al.. With these channels, I see more the issue of windbag pundits bloviating to fill time (eg, Carville calling "no blue wave" after early returns in 2018).
But the broadcast networks are, plainly, very prone to nervousness of the "Republicans watch our sitcoms too" standpoint, and I have just not really seen the signs over the past four years that CBS eg will call a disinfo power grab for what it is. (Prove me wrong!)
(Counterpoint: This is how you do it.) https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1322939033970974724
