Listening to Trump speak to reporters on MSNBC

[karynnj]

2. As President, they can't not cover him

I get what you are saying that letting him spew they are helping him spread lies.

Your comment that the media as it is today was not there for most American history is thought provoking and obviously true. I wonder if MSNBC or any other media collected the video and rather than show it in real time, take it and edit in their corrections/responses. If they took the entire Trump account augmented by their input, it. could in this case have been out within 15/30 minutes.

Before Trump, presidential debates, SOTU etc were fact checked after the fact. However the "corrections" were few and often nuanced. Sometimes the words said were true, but the people doing the fact check felt that it was important to add other facts. In the Trump era, this passive fact checking is ignored. I think the WP kept a list of inaccurate Trump comments in his first term. I think it ended up over 1000.