I couldn't disagree more with this. Maddow proved the other night that 23 minutes of reading and recapping the indictment was deadly, and she was touching on just the highlights. To spend 60 minutes or more reading and annotating it would have been illustrated radio and sets clicking off across America.
As for fact-checking the indictment, that's why they have the trial, and we got a good portion of it during the Jan. 6 House Committee sessions. I'll agree that tracking Trump's progress from Bedminster to DC was pointless and overkill, but when all the nets are locked into a pool camera view of the courthouse exterior, there's not a lot they can do in terms of visual variety. Had there been a camera in the courtroom, that might have been one thing, but they had to work with what they had. I'm no big fan of Maddow's, but I think she did an excellent job reading the texts from the reporter in the room. --Dave Sikula On Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 1:50:14 PM UTC-7 Kevin M. wrote: > There is a major news event occurring today, and every televised news > outlet is handling it the same way, which is to say wrongly. Each has their > own hosts and their own pundits speculating and pontificating instead of > reporting. They are operating under the assumption that a live shot outside > the courthouse is newsworthy, even though they aren’t reporting / can’t > report on what’s occurring inside. > > So instead of reading the indictment aloud and fact-checking the charges > with eye witnesses, video from Jan 6, or doing anything resembling > journalism, they are guessing whether Trump will have his mugshot taken. > > It’s nothing less than disgraceful. One of the most historic days in > American history, and it’s being covered by teams of morons. > > All the broadcast outlets (including Fox) interrupted regular scheduled > broadcasts… for what? To show Trump walk down the stairs from his private > jet? And to get that shot, they pointed cameras at a parked plane for how > many minutes? Hours? What is the f-ing point? > > Where is the substance? Where are the facts? Where is the journalism? Any > jagoff can point a camera at a building, but that’s not news. And these > morons are all going to drive home from work today patting themselves on > the back, genuinely believing they were a beneficial part of history, when > in actuality they were an embarrassment to the nation. > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/29d1d04f-e2cd-48c2-aee7-84cbd9ee5779n%40googlegroups.com.
