@AndrettiIndy Nobody in the Fort Wayne area is watching because @FOX55FortWayne is asleep at the wheel! If you need any updates on today’s episode of Judge Mathis, we have you covered though.
The decision by ABC, CNN, and NBC not to carry President Trump’s primetime address on election security raises a fundamental question about the role of major broadcast networks in a democracy.
This was a nationally announced speech by a sitting, duly elected president on the integrity of U.S. elections. An issue that affects every voter, regardless of party.
This is not about liking or disliking Trump, or agreeing or disagreeing with his claims. The presidency is the highest elected office in the country. When a president addresses the nation in a formal, scheduled primetime speech, there is a strong public‑interest argument that news networks should air it live and in full. Citizens can’t evaluate their leaders, or their claims, if they aren’t allowed to hear those leaders directly.
Editorial judgment and criticism remain essential. Networks are entirely within their rights to add clear disclaimers before and after the address, fact‑check in real time or immediately afterward, host panels that challenge, contextualize, or rebut the president’s statements.
But substituting that for the speech itself, showing only handpicked clips, summaries, or commentary, shifts from informing the public to curating what the public is permitted to see. At that point, viewers are reacting to the networks’ framing, not to the president’s actual words.
Even after being censored in the U.S., having its license revoked and facing sanctions, RT International chose to air the address in full. RT has publicly disagreed with the president’s policies and with parts of this speech, but it treated the event as a matter of public record. Our principle is simple: viewers should be able to watch the complete address in context, hear the arguments unedited, and then weigh both the speech and the subsequent criticism for themselves. Rather than having corporate media gatekeepers decide in advance which presidential messages are fit for broadcast.
Now might be a good time to remind @realDonaldTrump and his lackeys who wrote that speech that his beloved CARES Act funded the massive nationwide mail-in election of 2020. I was the only person in Congress to stand up to oppose it.
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I just watched your coffee w/Hinch segment.
Try running a dehumidifier in your house. It takes a LOT of the load off of your air conditioner & should help get those temps down below 72. It will also feel much colder with <50% humidity.
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Big week for posting about impending news! We have all kinds of real time news reporting in this new episode of @SpeedStreetPod with @PatricioOWard ! Such a great win for him and the @ArrowMcLaren team #indycar https://t.co/hWalWUc2wT
I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.
He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.