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O’Donnell ripped cable news networks for carrying the event live and called it “2016 all over again,” adding that outlets are making the “same mistakes” with their reporting as they did while covering Trump that election cycle.
He also criticized reporters for not asking follow-up questions and knocked networks for fact-checking only after Trump finished speaking.
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O’Donnell also knocked networks for not covering Vice President Kamala Harris’ Michigan speech live after the Trump presser, noting that his network was doing Olympics coverage before bringing viewers the last few minutes of her remarks.
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Remember, It was the CEO of CBS that admitted that the endless coverage of Trump and giving him a free platform to spew his BS is absolutely awful for the American people and American democracy but they’re going to keep doing it anyway because of how profitable it is.
O’Donnell may be right, but he was part of the problem in the first place. He was just as complicit as everybody else in giving him endless free coverage because it was generating clicks and/or revenue for them. He has gladly hung onto and reported on every word Trump said just like the rest of them, even when what he was saying wasn’t even newsworthy and just a repeat of his usual mindless drivel.
They’re all guilty of it. It’s not just the Sean Hannitys and Tucker Carlsons. Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, and the like have done the exact same thing on the left, and people like David Pakman and Brian Tyler Cohen have done the same on the independent scene. They have all built their brands off of the back of Donald Trump in some way, shape, or form and they all share the blame for the preferential treatment he gets. They’ve been the ones giving it to him since 2015 in the first place.