Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Letter to the editor:

Stop covering news conferences

The TV networks are doing it again. They are covering President Donald Trump’s news conferences every day, thus giving him free daily campaign time like they did in 2016. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton hardly got a word in throughout that campaign season.

Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings are obviously campaign events. They are his opportunities to tell lie after lie.

It’s OK, in fact it is the networks’ duty, to cover them. But they should not be covered live. And when it is covered, it must be accompanied by fact-check.

If the TV networks continue covering Trump’s briefings live, they are assuring Trump’s re-election, which most Americans know would be bad for the country.

While surveys show the American people want to kick Trump out of the Oval Office in November, the TV networks are just out to earn a buck.