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"I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking... we couldn't compromise on that."

As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

While their concerns about platforming him at all are totally valid, I feel like it did serve the greater good to put him on camera and let him make a racist fool of himself. i.e. it was a gamble that paid off.

Re-purposing a comment I made to another post a day or so ago:

Facing three Black women, he insulted the first Black woman on the top of a major-party ticket and seemed perfectly comfortable disparaging his hosts, even as he tried to appeal to Black voters as their best choice for safeguarding Black well-being.

-- Trump Questions Harris’s Racial Identity, Saying She Only ‘Became Black’ Recently

"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

As someone who follows politics mostly through late night shows and memes, that event was one of very few times I've seen journalists push back on the guy. This revelation makes pretty clear that 'no fact checking' is a routine demand that media orgs routinely cave to, and I now have a ton of respect for NABJ, which I had never previously heard of.