Stelter: The Only Real Plot Against the Coverage of Trump’s Election Speech Was to Keep It Reality-Based and Truth-Based

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STELTER: "NBC and ABC did the same thing as this network, CNN, last night. The newsrooms monitored the speech, evaluated what was actually newsworthy, looked at the documents Trump was declassifying, and then reported on what happened. NBC and ABC both went on the air with special reports to explain that the speech had happened and to summarize what Trump had said, but most importantly, to contextualize it and fact-check it, just as CNN did. Now, Trump was ominously claiming that the networks were part of a plot, but the only real plot here, the only intention is to remain reality-based and truth-based. Trump‘s election lies led to violence after the 2020 election, so this is a subject that really does warrant extra care and attention by journalists. And frankly, some network executives felt that it would be dangerous to just air Trump‘s speech live, in full, unedited, without knowing what he was going to say ahead of time. That‘s where we are in America.”