MSNBC dropped coverage of President Trump this week when he started spreading false information about the Bidens that has already been disproven, while other networks continued their coverage and fact-checked the President directly after. The moment illustrated an ongoing debate about how to handle live coverage of a president who habitually lies.
On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney was joined by Joanna Weiss of Experience Magazine; Roy Harris, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and The Economist Group; Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University; and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.