To air or not to air: Networks face pressure over broadcasting Trump's immigration address

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President Trump’s newly announced primetime address on immigration Tuesday has put the nation's TV networks in a difficult — and familiar — position as they debate whether the address warrants primetime coverage.

 

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DONOT COVER A FEARMONGER!!!!

PART TWO: If the president realizes not one person outside his fan club is not watching him, he will emotionally crumble. He will be ready to compromise with Congress.

Do not give him a platform. That's exactly what he wants. If the media decides to nourish the president's ego, then all viewers should watch cartoon network Fo Teen Titans or The Amazinf Qorld of Gumball. If the president realizes

Sure but then give the other side a chance to oppose the President's view.

you didn't air Obama's address on immigration in 2014 yet the racist propaganda spewing from a known liar manufacturing a national crisis gets airplay 😒 i'm a US Citizen who could do fine without Any coverage of this fraud or his whitehouse, FOX does that. just give me a recap

If they don't air, then they are clearly traitors and will be blacklisted for the treacherous Communists they are! If they do air, then they support a xenophobic ideals that will alienate their viewers. Decisions, decisions.

Air it. I get a kick out of it. It's a good training film on how not to be.

Should be an easy decision to make; either love your country or you don’t. We need to secure our border! Wall works! Concrete or Steel, does not matter to most of us that love our country & want to keep Americans safe! Build that wall!

Keep him off the prime time media record him and vet his dishonesty news magazine entertainment crime Air him during sleep time. Cut off his Government Services water, power catering security

It didn’t. He used you for a shameless self-plug. Again.

Regardless I chose not to watch TV during his speech. No ratings from me.

Didn’t watch. Obama was denied...you allowed this. enablingtheidiot

Dont air

There is no reason to air this speech. You did not provide airtime to President Obama, when he wanted to speak to us about immigration. Giving this president his requested airtime only shows you cave to bully’s. What a lesson for future president’s. shameful!

Nooooooooo

BoycotTrumpsAddress

It doesn’t but you’ll do it anyway

No!!!!! Stop giving him a lie platform! Unless of course, you're going to call him on EVERY DAMN one !

Dear When you cower & cave under pressure from Trump the Bully & the Trump supporting Minority,,, you become State run TV. The Trump address should not be live broadcast. It should be taped, fact checked & aired later with a proper response. TheMSMisTrumpsBitch

Not to air. BoycottTrumpPrimeTime

BOYCOTT ALL THE NETWORKS ALL NIGHT! Don’t just boycott realDonaldTrump’s infomercial / scam! Boycott the entire evening! BOYCOTT CBS, ABC, , FoxNews, cnnbrk MSNBC ripthesystem BoycottTheNetworks BoycotTrumpsAddress StopTheLies

Gee...football preempts everything else..guess the American people's right to hear their President isn't important To NBC. Is that so you can report what he said 'your way.'

Shame on you 4even considering to air him live. U guys can’t claim u practice gr8 journalism. U guys’r just another wish-washy, clot chasing fraudsters. BoycottTheNetworks

Youre just making a lot of noise. You hear what majority of people wants- NO...yet for sure its still going to be covered in your station. What a shame. Going to bed early then.

No Trump, no speech. Why, 100% chance of lies. misinformation and propgranda.

Don’t air it.

Give the American people a fucking break and let us relax and not watch TRUMP BS tonight! OPEN GOVERNMENT AND PAY OUR PEOPLE FRIDAY!

Fact check live

NOPE

If it were Obama there would be no question.

Not a difficult decision. NO, it does not warrant live coverage. Let him tweet the damn thing!

He hates you guys so don't broadcast. No one wants to hear his lies. Stop playing into his bull

Don't be so dramatic. There's nothing of import for him to say. NBC and every other network knows this. You also know it will all be lies. You are doing a disservice to the country and enabling a deranged individual.

'We teach people how to teat us.' What are the networks teaching the POTUS by supporting his actions (and YES - airing is a form of supporting his agenda) and what are you also teaching the American people about your relationship with us if you air vs. if you don't?

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Do not air this nonemergency.

DO NOT AIR!

The networks create their problems.

Trump tryin to sell cookies no one wants and careless about the Networking don't want him but he keep bothering people.

Don’t air this garbage!

Don’t cover this clown 🤡

equaltime

Not watching and shame on the networks.

Make it like the old “Pop Up Video”. Every time he says a misleading or false statement, a bubble should pop up to correct his falsehood.

NBCNEws stop your fake news

Your “debate” isn’t over whether it warrants coverage. It’s over whether you want to remain politically unbiased or not. This is the president. The leader of our country whether we like it or not. If he has asked to addressed the people he leads, there should be no “debate”. 🙄

Just admit you’re racist. Bush’s speech: aired Obama’s speech: not aired NuHitler’s speech: airing By the time you finally decide to stop airing this man’s toxic propaganda, the state will have taken full control of the media & this will all be a moot point. And that’s on you

The only way you should air him is if he is going to tell us Mexico is going to pay for the wall.

It’s not a difficult situation you twits! You refused to air Obama’s immigration speech b/c it was too “political”. You are now on the side of the Rep who do nothing to stand up to the ass. You are all complicit in supporting a maniac!

Wow sooooo many idiots on here today

Pressure? Isn’t that was fascists do?

Not

If the media would stop pandering to president cheeto , then all’s that would be left is a tweet feed to bother people with .

Thank God for Netflix! BoycottTrumpsAddress

Epitome of cowardice. As bad as the GOP congress slugs. TrumpShutdown McConnellShutdown BoycottTrumpsAddress DontWatchDonald

They could surrender licenses to bandwidth for use by someone that will let the Pres talk to constituents

NO air time for trumps propaganda! Time to invoke the 25th amendment! What are you waiting for Trump is obviously unfit to be president. Time for a new mental/physical of the pres with a real dr. He would not pass. InvokeThe25th BoycottTrumpPrimeTime

Sure you've read this already, in 2014, President Obama was denied coverage of a discussion on immigration because it was too partisan. Things are better now?

'Better tell the world about how he banged a pornstar back in the 90s, but can't allow the people to see his address'

Let me make this easy for you. It does not. If one of the news stations backed out they would see their ratings spike! If not, Netflix’s viewership will surge tonight.

They only want to broadcast their continued 100% negative coverage.. ..the bias bigoted political action committee superpacs for the DNC they are

So don't air it. Fox will no matter what anyway. Don't join in. Don't chase the corruption money.

Why didn’t the networks ask to see the speech Monday so they can judge it is news or political posturing?

Let the World see the truth of his insanity.

If this network wants to then do it if not just get the Hell off the air way and save your selves money. All the networks care about is rateings and BS. If you hate the Presidential office and don't care about America then turn your switch off and just quit with the crap.

Boycott!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE. Network news that covers POTUS speech today should give D's airtime to rebut POTUS facts.

Tonight do not watch Donald Trump. Next he may want a Wall built on the Canadian boarder where criminals and drugs enter America.

Be responsible and either refuse to air, or fact check his ass. I will NOT be watching. I hope to God you don’t give him any air time.

I’m sorry, are you really trying to figure out if airing the president speaking to the country should be done or not? The president wants to speak to the country. Shouldn’t we want him to communicate with all of us in a forum that isn’t Twitter?I’m not sure why this is an issue

Anything broadcast by the main networks is considered fake news, so why bother?

I’d rather have a root canal.

I won’t be watching

We don’t want to see him! It’s bad enough he fills up my twitter feed

see that ratio? show and explain that to your advertisers. no one will be watching. BoycottTheNetworks BoycottTrumpAddress BoycottABC BoycottCBS BoycottNBC BoycottCNN

Don’t air it. We cannot let him turn this country into North Korea or China. We need to show him that he’s on his way out.

It does not.

Not watching!

C-span can handle it

Seems it wasn’t too difficult when it was Obama. BoycottTrump

Please don't air ot

There should be no debate if you’re committed to truth telling and against the spread of lies and propaganda.

This man should not be given any airtime. He lies about everything and then lies about the lies!

'New's' network debates wether the USA president's address warrants primetime coverage. How are they not Bias

Simply watch something else, or better yet, read a book. We have seen this show too many times already.

Trump should be truthful and you, I and everyone else knows for a fact that Trump is a non-stop liar. So you should ask Trump to speak to idiots and morons that are reactive to fear mongering and bullsh*t lies. Few believe anything Trump says.

He lies. We will not be watching him lie again. I refuse to award him with my time when I know he lies and is poised to abuse power. Send his useless ass to prison where he deserves to be until he dies. TrumpWorstPresidentEver

Don’t air it. Please. America doesn’t need more of his lies. It will do more damage than good.

Don’t do it it’s going to be all lies

Don’t cover it unless you can real time call out each and every lie.

Apply the same standard that you did to Obama for the immigration related address. You shouldn't be acting as a megaphone for spreading xenophobic rhetoric.

BoycottTrumpAddress BoycottTrumpPrimeTime

I WILL RESIST the BS. I will not watch realDonaldTrump LIE, fear mongering and Race Baiting

Not to Air, give trump the 2 am time slot. He is a liar and lunatic. Don’t cave to it!!!

Air it n delay, like next day or a. Hour later.. then run fact check with broadcast!! Do your fucking job!!

I would be ecstatic if you would not air it. Thank you

You just don't mess with NCIS.

Why wouldn't they? We had to listen to Barack 🙄

Do Not air Trump's lies!

Well let’s look back a couple of years ago, and fact check NBC. When 44 decided to speak about anything “even lying about Benghazi over soldiers coffins” it didn’t matter how long the retard spoke 5mins-2 hours. So Trump is your President. So do your jobs, carry entire broadcast.

Why should we be subjected to more lies, more misinformation and misguided truths. Send a message to realDonaldTrump DON'T GIVE HIM AIR TIME. Unless he's going to announce his resignation of course.

Build the wall. Some people need something to complain about.

No

Give equal time to Democrats for a rebuttal.

If it was Obama they would!

I say turn off TV for the night! Snuggle in bed with someone you love!!!

Don’t Presidential addresses usually get aired? People have the choice to watch or turn it off.

He calls you all the enemy of the people and you have to ask?

My tv will be tuned to Comedy Central!

He is turning you into fake news. You making money. 100 million will hear the lies. 10 million will hear the response. When he ran you were making so much money you under reported the rapes and molesting.

Let’s Fox News deal with it I don’t want to miss my shows..

It does not warrant prime time status. Don't do it.

Why do you keep asking? This is at least the fifth time I have seen this tweet?

Political Ad period, he should pay for the airtime.

Dont air! Why when he refers to you as 'enemy of the people'

400,000 border apprehensions annually. Thousands of children trafficked and exploited every year. Significant crime and drug trafficking. Yea, let's just let it slide, because no one in our news room voted for the guy ...

Fact check everything that comes out of his mouth, this is another episode of Lies Lies and more Lies.

He IS fake news and he is the enemy of the people. Save us all and don’t amplify his hate speech

DontWatchDonald BoycottTrumpsAddress

Will some of us not bother with tv at all? Probably not

This is only a difficult decision if you are more interested in ratings than protecting your journalistic integrity. By allowing anyone to take over the national airwaves and lie to the American people, unchecked, is despicable! BoycottTrumpPrimeTime ChaosAgent TrumpLies

abcnews CBSNews FoxNews Hypocrites.

Please for once don’t give him his way! Do not air his lies!!!

You should not broadcast without a delay and accompanying fact checks. Otherwise, you are completely complicit in broadcasting lies and misinformation.

Have a backbone. Who cares if he calls you partisan? Since when does anything he says promote truth? The pandering media is part of the reason we’re stuck with trump in the first place.

Seemed no problem with Obama. He told the truth. He cares about America. He cares about Americans. He cares about humanity. But you contemplate airing a racist liar who sold our country to Russia, is blatantly using a 'wall' as a distraction to corruption and crimes? Really?

What are you afraid of? Oh wait it's not misinformation about race or sexism.

Are Dems getting time to speak?

If you have to ask if it warrants primetime coverage :Pro Tip It does not !

No ratings tonight guys

You said NO to President Obama but yes to Trump-Dump😡🤮

Don't air more of his lies ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder ThereisNOcrisisattheborder

I cannot believe that the networks want to prevent the public from hearing their own President talk! Is this China or North Korea? Censorship by assholes in FAKE news! Proves they are afraid he May say something positive that they can’t censor!!

Fact check. Rebuttal. Truth.

If it’s about the Border “ wall/no wall” I’d rather listen to experts, and real Border security agents on the purported crisis at our borders/national security. They are there . The majority of us aren’t. Give us the facts. Lay it out there. I’m sick of listening to politicians

No it does not

Media is complicit and def will show. Like the sheep they are.

Do Not air

Immigration prisons should not even be allowed in America first of all it is people dying because they're not going by law a second of all American can't help all of these people the communities has put a strain up on the system that's not fair ya really want to know the truth

It does not!!!!

They’re going to air it. But I think most agree that the networks shouldn’t. At the very least, I hope people decide to not even watch it. Don’t give them ANY ratings

Be a leader it may payoff for you in the long run. DontWatchDonald

Immigrants primeTime Which Native Tribe does he think originated the Trump name?

Air it. But the banner underneath shud highlight his lies and fearmongering

Why is NBC airing this clown when they know he is going to lie?

He's requesting the fake news to televise him on prime time. Just say no.

Hey NBC CNN CBSNews ABC - DO NOT Air this POTUS political stunts! Enough! Resisters stand up, or TakeAKnee - SpeakUp TrumpLiesEveryTimeHeSpeaks

It’s not difficult. Don’t air it. We won’t be watching. He’s a traitor who’s time is almost near. MuellerisComing

BoycottTrumpPrimetime Shame on you ABC CBSNews CNN

Not!!

No

There is NO,emergency - you are giving air time to a pathological liar - a sociopathic criminal who likely did not legally win the election and whose words are destroying our democracy. It os irresponsible of you .. He is incompetent.

If realDonaldTrump wants an audience that includes Democrats, he should have an onscreen vote during his speech. Guarantee Democrats will watch (maybe with the sound off).

Even harder given you denied the black president with heralded integrity an opportunity to address the same topic you are giving to white craven liar who is now the subject of numerous federal and state criminal investigations.

How many times are you going to run the same headline? Cover it (or don’t - I’ll just turn to a competitor).

Why is there even a question? Your job is to bring news, truth and understanding as to the world events. NOT promote lies, personal agendas, propaganda and stroke prickly egos. Live split screen fact check, on site, as well as immediate rebuttals?

Don’t

You must not air the Liar in Chief, unless you can fact check his espoused lies. Otherwise, you are colluding w an enemy of the people. Note to the false idol wanna be baby king: You are the enemy of the people, your God complex is duly noted. There is no border 'crisis.' BOYCOTT

they already said it will air

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