Fairness: CNN/MSNBC Must Show 90% of GOP Convention Unfiltered(LOL!)

Newsbusters.org ^ | 8/24/2020 | Rich Noyes

[rktman]

This week is a test for those in the television news business: Are they still trying to deliver “news,” which means letting their audience actually witness important events for themselves (albeit with analysis and commentary from the networks)? Or are they in the “we’ll-only-show-what-liberals-want-us-to-show” business?

Last week, CNN and MSNBC let their audiences see roughly 90 percent of the Democratic video show that stood in for this year’s national convention, without any meaningful interruptions. ABC, CBS and NBC showed their viewers about 30 percent of the convention as produced by the party, including 9pm ET hour highlights shown during these broadcast networks’ 10pm ET hour of coverage.

If those organizations are still in the news business, that’s exactly how much of the Republican Convention you’ll see on those networks, too.

[rktman]

Well, we bumped into the msdnc coverage last night while the nurse from West Virginia was speaking. Over the small pic of her they were "fact" checking what she was saying. They may be covering it "unfiltered" but they are still misusing the "fact" check to mislead and alter the message. Not that many will see it on those lying nets.

[fuente]

Well every time Fox idiot talked over the presentations I shifter to CNN to watch them.

[devane617]

I thought legal issues required all networks to provide equal time.

[DoodleDawg]

Sure they’re going to show the Republican Convention. How else are they going to mock the Republicans in real time?

[setter]

Fox never showed the DNC convention at all. I figured since FOX never showed the DNC, CNN would not show the RNC. Glad to see they did.

[funfan]

Watch OAN they have the whole thing with not interruptions.

[apillar]

I dipped into CNN for a bit last night (spent most of my time on C-Span because I was getting tired of Fox commentators interrupting speeches in the middle). CNN was about what you would expect, I lasted five minutes and quickly switched after the first word out of Chris Cuomo’s mouth when one speech ended was “LIES!”...yeah, all the fair and balanced coverage you would expect from CNN.

[Robert A Cook PE]

But by silencing the speaker, and by talking over the actual speech, the “news” media IS covering-up what do not to show!

See, the two conventions have equal time, but unequal effects. As intended by the democrats.

[sickoflibs]

NO they don’t and they won’t.

They will play snippets and stop and have their panels call them lies.

You are mistaking them with Chris Wallace, Dana Perino and Bret Baur.

[USS Alaska]

I DVR the pubbie convention on c-span, so that I can go back and review the speeches that I want to see in full.

Also, I was watching hannity and he jumped out of a speech that I wanted to watch, I just flipped to c-span live.

There are so many ways to watch these speeches that if you miss them, it's because you have chosen not to watch.

[rightwingcrazy]

“If those organizations are still in the news business”

That’s a counterfactual, if there ever was one. They’re in the manipulation business, not in the news business.

[devane617]

Hannity is addicted to his own sound...I have no clue as to how/why he is still around.

[pepsi_junkie]

Traditionally the press handled the conventions thusly:

• If the GOP went first they would barely cover it and then after people squawked say 'we hear your complaints and you are right, we won't make the same mistake for the DNC' and cover it wall to wall.
• If the DNC went first they would cover it wall to wall and then declare that the realize they went overboard and should have been more selective. For the GOP convention we'll tailor the coverage to only show key elements.

Basically they always had a canned rationale to justify disproportionate coverage of the DNC either way. Now they don't really try to hide their partisanship anymore so they won't even bother explaining it, they'll just not show stuff. That's what I expect, I guess we'll see.

[Blogger]

OAN or CSPAN

[MotorCityBuck]

“There are so many ways to watch these speeches that if you miss them, it's because you have chosen not to watch. “ You got that right. It 2020 for Gods Sake. Obviously people that post here have the “Internets” but they can’t figure out YouTube? 😂

[RayChuang88]

But why? I could watch the whole thing unfiltered through RSBN on YouTube.

[rktman]

Just lazy I guess. LOL! Pushin’ buttons is hard.

[USS Alaska]

Hannity is addicted to his own sound...I have no clue as to how/why he is still around.

He is a pretty white boy that is so good at martial arts, that any antifa nut job knows that it is death to call him out.

Young fredo cuomo on cnn, the body builder, knows that if he challenged sean hannity, there would be one less dago in NY.

He also carries legally in 7 states that are impossible to carry in, including NY and NJ.

Did I mention that he is on 500 plus radio stations every day for three agonizing hours with an audience of over 25 million people, and he banks over 30 million a year.

I love Sean but I cannot listen to him, because I know everything he is going to repeat 100 times.

He will never replace Rush.

[funfan]

Whats weird is on my tv channel guide channel 1212 it has a red screen with eh elephant and it says “Trump 2020 The GOP Convention)
Charlotte North Carolina” but there is no broadcasting on it not today or not last night the and it also also RNC listed on the top left but it is just a static screen what is that?

[elbook]

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Dont worry, various ‘mistakes’ and unknown/mysterious glitches will be employed...

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