Tiffany Hsu

Major Networks Cut Away From Trump’s Baseless Fraud Claims

Fox News and CNN stuck with the White House news conference, but reported afterward that the president offered no evidence for his accusations of vote fraud.
Pub Date: 
Thu, 11/05/2020
Author: 
Tiffany Hsu
Michael M. Grynbaum
Source: 
New York Times
Link: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/business/media/trump-tv.html

On Thursday, MSNBC was the first outlet to break away from Mr. Trump’s news conference, after just 35 seconds. (MSNBC, which has a large liberal following, has been more aggressive than other channels in choosing to hold off on airing the president live.) The move “was not done as a stunt, or out of theatrics,” the anchor Brian Williams told viewers, but rather, “we just can’t have it. It was not rooted in reality and, at this point in where our country is, it’s dangerous.”

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