USA Today Editor in Chief responds to cutting Trump's livestream speech

[Budi]

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[cayugafalls]

1. So no more airtime for the orange shitgibbon...

[Thekaspervote]

2. As it should be!!

[SheltieLover]

38. This!👆

[TheRealNorth]

3. If only they had done that back when Trump was peddling conspiracy theories about Obama's birth

But I suppose better late than never.

[Mr.Bill]

7. If only they had all done that

right after he came down the escalator.

[durablend]

29. If only they had all done that

When Fred Trump pulled out

[Ligyron]

30. If only he'd pulled out sooner, there'd be no Donny 2 Scoops.

[SheltieLover]

39. This!👆

Couldn't they tell he was a con man?

When will this society stop rewarding narcissism?

[malaise]

35. THIS

is the truth

[SallyHemmings]

4. 'Bout time

[c-rational]

8. Bingo, about time for all those who published his lies for the last four years.

[sweetloukillbot]

5. Wow, I didn'tv know Nicole Caroll was editor in chief at USA Today

She was my features editor 20 years ago.

[Budi]

6. Give her a call! Say we appreciate her decision.

🙂

[spanone]

9. Thank You, should have instituted that policy four years ago, but still, thanks.

[crickets]

20. +1

[Hekate]

10. Brilliant!

[question everything]

11. Not the local ABC affiliate.

David Muir cut Trump to continue with ABC News, so the local affiliate cut back. And we cut them.

[onecaliberal]

12. Damn straight!

[Barbara2423]

13. Yeah!!!!

[gratuitous]

14. They can DO that?!

Media outlets aren't obliged to carry whatever cockamamie crap falls out of Trump's mouth? When did that change?

[Aussie105]

15. Got to laugh!

Four years of most of the media helping to spread the Trump Cult message and feeding free Trump propaganda to the masses (because it's all news worthy) and now they are growing a sense of responsibility?

But why? Oh, of course, they see the end of Trump looming and want to stay relevant in the Media Sphere . . . . totally transparent, totally hypocritical.

Will be get some sort of apology from some of the media for being willing participants in growing the Trump Cult, or will it be total denial - 'Us? No, we were always on the side of Truth, Justice and the American Way!'

[PatrickforO]

16. Yes! Trump's bleating tonight from the briefing room was

incendiary, dangerous, seditious, corrosive to our election process, and downright despicable.

[dchill]

17. Truth. What a concept.

[SergeStorms]

18. It's about time the media started standing up to him.

For the past six years they've printed or aired every lying word from this sorry excuse for a man. Now, at this late hour, they're refusing to act as a distributor of his lies? Better late then never, I suppose, but if they'd done this years ago there's a good chance our country wouldn't be in this position right now.

[Budi]

21. Would you rather they aired his bs speech then?

I appreciate them finally telling him he is irrelevant.

However long it took.

[SergeStorms]

22. I refuse to applaud them...

when they're the very reason that piece of shit is in the White House in the first place. That's my opinion, and it's just as valid as your own.

[Oppaloopa]

27. I agree

[jcgoldie]

19. Brian Williams cut in after like 3 sentences...

He said something like "Yeah we can't have that."

[Cetacea]

37. Yes

[greenjar_01]

23. Deplatforming works

[Cha]

24. Rt! Just WOW from Nicole Carroll of

USA today!

Mahalo, Budi.. great find!!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

25. Very good, but if they'd done this with all the previous

instances where they, instead, helped RWers spread unfounded BS.

I mean the MSM in general, not USA Today, in particular.

[canetoad]

26. Brian Williams did the same

Live speech started, two minutes in, Williams called for fact checking. Didn't return to live broadcast of tr ump.

[LaMouffette]

28. Next time, they should keep covering Trump's speech, but honk a clown horn each time he lies.

A loud farting noise would work, too.

[Ligyron]

31. Snopes, the biggest boogeyman for the RW since Soros, fact checked his word salad in real time.

Did a very good job of debunking and correcting his inane ramblings.

On Farcebook I discover OMG! dead or 120 yr old people are voting and are apparently doing so by the 100's!! (how original) and that over three million voters cast their ballots in Mn when there's only 2.5 registered voters!! Fraud. In each case, the state supervisor of elections or an equivalent debunks that nonsense.

I'm having a lot of fun with a former friend turned Trump cultist's newsfeed where his like minded friends are furious! The elections being stolen right before their eyes, killing their joy. One or two hint at taking what sounds like some kind of illicit action. OH, and apparently Ghoulani has this, says one, since there's a lot of "illegal crimes" being committed. Kinda like Q with Trump.

When I point out where their information is wrong and counter baseless claims from dubious or non existent sources boy do the get mad! Call me names, which as I point out just means they have no argument and have obviously lost, just like their hero but do so more politely than that.

[liberaltrucker]

36. As opposed to "legal crimes"?

[Blue Owl]

32. I guess better late than never

[Shoonra]

33. An historic moment ....

The networks made history when they pulled the plug on a televised address by The President. It took guts but it also signaled that his authority was waning. I wonder whether the networks did this independent of each other or after some conference.

[Budi]

34. Think this was more impactful than an apology buried on the back page.

Ya know.