Oddbean new post about login | logout "NBC’s 'Meet the Press' could’ve booked any political person for the debut this Sunday of the show’s new moderator, Kristen Welker. There’s U.S. Senator Mitt Romney who just announced his retirement, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer or even the President of the United States.
But instead Meet the Press ('MTP') invited for their roll out of Welker as moderator: Donald J. Trump."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#NBC #Trump #normalization #MediaFail
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/meet-the-press-booking-trump-for "This booking sums up everything that is dangerously wrong with corporate media. NBC doesn’t care that 'Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,' as President Biden put it so well last September when warning Americans before the 2022 election of the stakes." #NBC #Trump #normalization #MediaFail /2
@f884fa2b I’d be cool with this if I knew they were going to ask hard questions, pressure him with followups, and shut down his lies…. Unfortunately, the for-profit infotainment industry that replaced the American media has been a willing accessory in the rise and promotion of American fascism since the get-go, so we all know they’re just going to spinelessly toss him softballs without any pushback and grovel before him as he spews his lies and conspiracy theories with impunity.