October 16, 2020
NBC caved to ‘enormous pressure’ to make town hall a ‘nightmare for Trump’
By Thomas Lifson
Last night, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie morphed from debate moderator into a vehement, partisan opponent during a town hall-style television program with President Trump, as both Andrea Widburg and E. Jeffrey Ludwig chronicle this morning. In doing so, she and her bosses at NBC and its parent Comcast at least partially satisfied Trump-hating critics, who exerted what New York Times reporter Ben Smith called “enormous pressure†to make the experience “a nightmare.â€
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Enormous pressure on NBC now to make this thing a nightmare for Trump.
11:43 AM · Oct 15, 2020
Some of the pressure came from the network’s own employees, current and former. But the network posed as bravely fair in offering Trump equal time and a purportedly similar to that given Biden recently in the same city, Miami.
The network considered it important that Trump be given the same format, day of the week and length of time that Biden had on NBC last week — although he will have a different moderator. Savannah Guthrie will be Trump's host after Lester Holt moderated the Biden event.
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