PBS segment on Trump's cognitive decline

[liberalmediaaddict]

Long overdue. PBS Newshour aired a segment tonight on Trump's cognitive decline and actually interviewed a clinical psychologist. All the legacy networks should interview mental health experts when discussing Trump especially after the way they treated President Biden.

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[irisblue]

1. Bump

[Coexist]

2. about time!

[lpbk2713]

3. Trump is a menace.

Put him away.

[bdamomma]

8. He is the

nightmare that plagues us all and the world. Yes, the world, are we going to slay this nightmare??????? Hell yes.

[Deuxcents]

4. Good interview

[misanthrope]

5. Thanks for beating me to this!

I was really glad to see it.

[liberalmediaaddict]

13. The whole segment was excellent

I forwarded the link to the "Shrinking Trump" podcast hosts. They've been begging the MSM all year to cover Trump's deteriorating mental state and interview experts.

[Poiuyt]

6. I hope this gains traction

It's getting late in the game.

[DemonGoddess]

7. This needed to be done a long time ago

[elleng]

9. HAS been done, and largely ignored.

See Dr. Bandy Lee

'On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Yale, Lee had been too preoccupied with her mother’s condition to pay attention to the nascent presidential race, so she was taken aback when she saw footage of a Donald Trump rally airing on the hospital room’s small TV. What shocked her was the way Trump interacted with the crowd. “He said something about how his supporters should knock the crap out of hecklers,” she recalls, “and that if they did, he would pay their legal bills.”

His belligerent behavior meant more to Lee than it might to a casual viewer. As part of her clinical work in prison settings, she had evaluated and treated hundreds of violent offenders, including leaders of prison gangs. A native New Yorker, she had assumed that Trump “was just a shady businessman,” Lee told me, but “I suddenly realized that he had a lot in common” with those patients. “Trump was engaging in the predatory manipulation of his vulnerable followers.”'>>>

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/donald-trump-violence-mental-health-dangerous-jan-6-fbi-mar-a-lago-civil-war-bandy-lee-psychiatry-goldwater-rule/

[Hekate]

12. TY for pointing this out, elleng. DUers have linked to this info over and over and over...

… H2O Man in particular has made sure we know of Bandy Lee, but there have been many other psychiatrists and publications.

People who claim to not know of or not heard about this have had their eyes tight shut.

[H2O Man]

16. Thank you!

My three-part 2020 interview with her for DU might be of even more value today.

[Hekate]

20. You're welcome -- some seem to have missed it, so need the link all over again!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. All I have bookmarked is this...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213009498

Ok, duckduckgo found these that I missed originally (don't know why):

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213364513

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214588632

[elleng]

18. Yes, and good to see DUers linking to her work;

I feel obligated to do so, and HOPE that each time, someone(s) will pick it up and spread it further (as I just did, again.)

Many DO have their eyes tight shut, and I can't help but to do what I can to pry them open.

[H2O Man]

14. Bandy paid a price

for honoring her "duty to warn."

[elleng]

21. Yes, a HUGE price,

but is STILL working.

[Orrex]

10. His KKKultists will take it as proof that 'teh librul media' is out to get him

Of course, nothing will convince them in any case, and I don't believe that any "undecideds" are undecided, but this might help get people to the polls to vote against him who might otherwise have stayed home.

[Cha]

11. Maybe It's the Best Time.. right Before the Election..

Instead of getting Swept Away early on.

TY

[liberalmediaaddict]

19. Hopefully so

It seems like now average Americans who avoid politics are finally paying attention to the election and examining how Trump looks and sounds right now. After blocking him out of their minds for 4 years.

[Cha]

26. Good Poins.. TY!

[moniss]

15. Everybody knows that his campaign is

hiding him and only doing a few more spots because they are scared to death of what will come out of his mouth especially after the Arnold Palmer fiasco. But will the other big media actually give this anywhere near the air time they gave their attacks about Joe? I seriously doubt it.

[liberalmediaaddict]

22. They're trying to "Weekend At Bernie's" him

until November 5th.
Hoping voters won't realize how cognitively impaired he truly is until it's too late.

[lindysalsagal]

17. Needs to be on all stations and social media.

[Jakes Progress]

23. He can lose 50 IQ points and still

be smarter than anyone that voted for him. And those idiots are still smarter than those who are "undecided".

[progressoid]

24. Who watches PBS?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. About 900,000 viewers on average in 2022...

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/public-broadcasting/

[littlemissmartypants]

31. GMTA ❤️

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19604476

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. Lots more watch PBS than the number of votes deciding both 2020 and 2016.

PBS NewsHour may be over their "but her emails" phase.

[allegorical oracle]

34. As a PBS/NPR devotee, I fear both rank near the top of TSF's kill list. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

30. PBS News Hour market share:

Who Watches PBS - A Breakdown of Demographics

By: Dareni Wellman

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PBS Viewer Demographics
According to PBS Foundation data, roughly 100 million people watch their local PBS stations in a given month. That excludes the tens of millions of viewers who stream video on PBS’s website and mobile apps. We’ve divided a look at who these people are into separate categories, including a glimpse of their professional, personal and familial lives.

PBS Viewers as Individuals
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If one were to combine the average statistics for PBS viewers on a national level, they would likely find a married, homeowning woman who is in her 30s or 40s and has at least one child under the age of 11. This viewer takes at least 3 vacations each year, owns a pet, holds a post-graduate degree and voted in the last election. Like with other forms of public media, this statistically average viewer would also be a big supporter of the arts and culture in her community.

However, the racial demographics get even more interesting depending on the PBS station being viewed.
For example, KERA in Dallas and Houston Public Media both have a reach of 80 percent or more among Hispanic and Latinx viewers, with KERA having the largest cumulative audience of this group in the country. Houston Public Media and Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta reach similarly large numbers of Black viewers. That’s not including the demographics for PBS KIDS, which ranks #1 in reaching a diverse audience of Black, Asian, Hispanic and Native American children ages 2-11, and their caregivers.

Furthermore, as PBS has adapted its content to reflect the ever-changing diversity of America, the audiences have recognized this change. According to PBS surveys, 74% of their audience believes PBS content features a diverse range of people.
Snip...more...
https://blog.marketenginuity.com/who-watches-pbs-a-breakdown-of-demographics?origin=serp_auto

For the first half of 2022, PBS NewsHour’s audience averaged nearly 2 million nightly viewers while PBS News Weekend averaged more than 750,000 nightly viewers. NewsHour’s average monthly digital audience surpassed 27 million with nearly 48 million average monthly video views.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/the-pbs-newshour-of-today-reaching-larger-audiences-in-more-places-than-ever-before?origin=serp_auto

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Specifically during the RNC in July and the DNC in August, PBS News reached a combined 18.8 million unique viewers on YouTube, totaling more than 40 million views and 544 million impressions. Total watch time on the video platform exceeded 5.6 million hours and the public broadcasting news division earned 65,000 new subscribers.

The growth of our TikTok channel has been a highlight of the year, as we’ve added more than 50,000 followers over the last few months. We’ve been aggressive about experimenting in formats, both for news videos and live streams, on the platform, and our work there has now grown the channel to more than 257,000 followers. During the political conventions on TikTok, PBS News had a total of more than 8.5 million views and 22 million interactions, while earning 113,000 new subscribers for 75% growth from July 8 to Sept. 5.
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October 22 update: Conventions Ratings:
During the July 2024 RNC, the PBS News Special co-anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett reached an average 5,639,000 viewers per night of primetime special programming (Monday – Thursday, July 15-18). Per average minute of programming, PBS News reached 733,527 viewers. Over the course of the 4 nights of programming, PBS News reached a combined 15,016,000 viewers.

During the August 2024 DNC, the PBS News Special co-anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett reached an average 7,262,250 viewers per night of primetime special programming (Monday – Thursday, August 19-22). Per average minute of programming, PBS News reached 1,531,854 viewers. Over the course of the 4 nights of programming, PBS News reached a combined 17,664,000 viewers..

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/press-releases/the-pbs-news-digital-operation-had-record-breaking-audience-reach-over-the-summer-thanks-to-our-teams-all-hands-on-deck-approach-to-the-political-conventions-and-election-coverage?origin=serp_auto

PBS NewsHour viewership
Pew Research
https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/sotnm-public-media-pbs-newshour-viewership/?origin=serp_auto

[Blue Owl]

27. K&R

[duncang]

28. His my uncle was a nuclear scientist

Interview was a mangled mess of word salad and that was from his early presidential run or shortly after. It was a stream of stupid conscious. He was all over the place. He would start talking about something then without finishing he would go to something else.

His staff had to bring in a single page daily brief that had bullet points and pictures of him to even get him to read it.

[wnylib]

33. MAGAs don't care about the decline. They know that

Vance and other people will carry out the Trump agenda. They will vote for Trump, expecting to see Vance take over.

[progressoid]

35. Shorten this to a 30 second video for those "undecided" voters