It's the lack of pushback, stupid

[senseandsensibility]

Hey MSNBC and CNN: go ahead and interview cheato. But ask him REAL questions. He definitely is newsworthy, but only if there is pushback. Otherwise, it's a campaign rally, and you are normalizing him.

There is no public official, let alone ex-President, with his history of lying. If you don't factor this into your questions and follow up, you are not doing journalism. You are doing public relations.

If you don't even ask this convicted sexual abuser about his record on this subject, you are disrespecting women. MSNBC, I am positive, has a majority of female viewers. How would they like it if they stopped watching?

Welker is being trashed on twitter, so I hope word is getting out not to watch this @##show. watching her eyes twinkle and her giddy smile as she discussed the interview made her look starstruck. Pathetic, and not journalism.

I have read comments on DU that he should be interviewed. Yes, he should be. By a real journalist.

[ZonkerHarris]

1. You don't get to host MTP without being a DC sellout.

[senseandsensibility]

2. It seems so

I wasn't even a fan of Russert.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. he was the ultimate DC insider.

[republianmushroom]

4. This nails it.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Thanks!

I'm getting really depressed that the "liberal" media seems to have learned nothing abut covering this creature since 2015.

[diva77]

5. Jonathan Swan interview of Chump from 2020 is the only effective pushback I've ever seen

Every "journalist" should watch this over and over as a master-class in how to interview this type of subject.

&ab_channel=melmax7

[Silent Type]

6. Supposedly, NBC is going to fact check trump and post lies after FULL interview is shown Sunday.

So far, all we've seen is a few teaser clips. Personally from what I saw, trump didn't help himself. Think I'll wait until full interview is broadcast before making a judgement on Welker.

[senseandsensibility]

7. Fair eough

I won't watch, but if you do and see something that we should know about her performance, please post it on DU.

[agingdem]

18. if they are serious about fact checking Trump

then the network should run a crawler... the interview is not live..it's pre-recorded and the network has been throwing out teasers and those teasers are lies, so why not a fact-checking crawler while Trump is vomiting his bullshit instead of post interview...it's obvious Welker (like Chuck Todd) is big on access but not big on journalistic integrity... that she gave him a forum to spew his crap says it all...

[wnylib]

8. I'd like to see Jon Stewart take him on.

But I think that Trump is too much of a coward to accept an interview with Stewart.

[Rebl2]

16. Now that

would be interesting.

[mopinko]

24. mehdi hassan wd b good.

i’m not usually a fwn, cuz he just beats up everyone whether they deserve it or not.
but his beat down of ramasmarmy was a thing of beauty.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. And these fake press conferences are indeed fake. He ignores the hard questions or

rolls it over totally to another topic. I've seen enough of his stupid press conferences or whatever you want to call them, and they are so full of crap. Let him pay for his own 30 minute advertisement, all one is doing is giving him free exposure so he doesn't have to pay for it.

And I want real, down to earth, fair, and serious questions, nothing less. Is there anyone out there that can do this?

[senseandsensibility]

11. I think there are plenty of capable journalists

but it's not in the corporate media's interest to let them interview republicans. Also, I don't think that cheato would ever agree to sit down with any of them. So, that being the case, ignore him. This kind of "interview" is not worth it. You're right that he should pay for his own PR.

[leftieNanner]

12. Let Rachel have a whack at him!

Oh boy would I pay good money to see that!!!

Remember what she did to Rand Paul?

[Lonestarblue]

13. I don't watch much television, but I most definitely never want to see or hear Trump again.

Every person in the media knows that he has nothing original, interesting, or relevant to governing to say. Every television opportunity they give him is part of his campaign because he will just air his lies and grievances over and over. They are all facilitating disinformation campaigns in their race to the bottom of responsible journalism.

[TSExile]

14. Get Mehdi Hasan!!

He'd be perfect - very tenacious and doesn't take any crap. Of course, T**** would be too chicken to agree to an interview with Mehdi!!

[Rebl2]

17. True

[Hassler]

15. Access Journalism is s about access, and not journalism.

[dchill]

20. That's the simple truth.

I've been aware of "Press the Meat" for decades. Never watched it on purpose. Both sides of the street are hardly ever as equal as this particular "journalistic endeavor" has ever-increasingly portrayed it. I'll bet Sunday's installment will be a sumptuous salad of Trump lobs and Hunter Biden shots.

But I won't have to watch it to find out.

[uponit7771]

19. K&R, .... and can't push back when not informed of MAGAs stupid arguments

[iluvtennis]

21. Well said.

[spanone]

22. 👍🏼K&R👍🏼

[senseandsensibility]

23. Gee, thanks!