Three top cable news networks cut away from Trump speech

[laserhaas]

Source: The HILL

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The three top cable news networks all cut away from President Trump's speech in Ohio on Wednesday before it ended, prompting complaints from the White House.

The speech was set to focus on infrastructure but saw the president go off script to touch on other topics.

It started just after 2 p.m, but within 30 minutes of Trump taking the stage CNN and MSNBC cut away to discussions with analysts and to report other news. Fox News remained on the speech for about ten minutes longer, according to social media reports, before cutting away also.

Fox Business Network, which was also covering the speech, stayed with Trump for the duration of his remarks.

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[iluvtennis]

1. Good. Media finally stepping up to the plate and not broadcasting the sh#tshow nonsense.

[Wounded Bear]

2. I'm with you...

I can't stand to listen to him. I think the networks are starting to realize that people out here don't bother listening to Trump. Their ratings have to drop off when Trump is on air.

[radical noodle]

3. Every time they air his speeches

I change the channel. I imagine lots of others feel the same.

[iluvtennis]

7. Me too

[herding cats]

10. Same here.

Then I complain via twitter and email.

I complain a lot more post 2016.

[iluvtennis]

6. +++ Agree

[FakeNoose]

4. Every speech is a campaign speech - about him

Nobody wants to listen to his BS again. We've heard it all before. I'm glad those channels cutaway, they should do it more often. When they show his speeches on the Nightly News, it's been edited down to 15 or 20 seconds. That's all the time is speeches deserve.

[notdarkyet]

34. No, it. is propaganda. And we shouldnt have to listen to hate speech full of lies

And self aggrandizement..

[Grammy23]

5. Someone needs to break the news to him that they are under no obligation to

Give him wall to wall coverage when he opens his yap. They did that during the campaign and annoyed many of their faithful viewers. So I bet they see a significant drop in their viewers if they stay too long on his speeches. I was quite surprised and relieved to notice that MSNBC cut back to their panel in the studio and didn’t give him the floor for an hour of blather. I hope one day they will be okay with giving him no coverage. I am pretty sure no one except his die hard Base will notice his absence.

[notdarkyet]

35. Put them on cspan.

[Hekate]

8. Now that's some good news!

[dalton99a]

9. Stop broadcasting his idiotic babbling and useless bullshit

[dchill]

11. That's a shame.

[harun]

24. LOL, yes it is.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Good, I've been calling and writing to CNN and MSNBC

since they showed his entire speech right before a special election on a Sat a few weeks ago when he campaigned in PA for Saccone. It was sickening. They never did that for Obama. I don't feel like having to see and hear him go on and on about himself for weeks before the midterms while he is supposed to be campaigning for OTHER people. Ego + maniac = fucking moron

[Thekaspervote]

13. Dotard has bad teeefeee ratings?

[True Blue American]

15. Trump was on?

And in Ohio?

I have given up on cable news. Made me very happy person.

Wake me when Trump has been deported. 24/7 was just too much.

[TeamPooka]

14. These are all campaign speeches. When does the equal time provision kick in?

[Fog Off]

16. Oh Donnie Boy,

When even FOX cuts you off, you know you are pretty much screwed!

[BumRushDaShow]

18. THIS!

[DylanUSC]

17. Good, the White House Press Briefings are just as bad anymore. Nothing ever comes out of them.

[democratisphere]

19. drumpf's script is always the same and the "shows" are all like boring,

droning reruns. Time to change the segment or the channel.

[duforsure]

20. Good!

But they still replay his message every day , and play his lies along with lies from others in his administration and his press spokesperson. Why do they put anything he says on tv when its always lies? Media is enabling him by doing that. I turn the channel when he's coming on, period, no matter what show I am watching , then I don't turn back to that channel for awhile. The more they show him the less i watch their channel.

[notdarkyet]

36. I watch the food channel now and read DU.

[Achilleaze]

21. Blah, blah blah - and then the repbubes whine, whine, whine

Dirty Donny* has a major EGO problem.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[PatSeg]

22. The media never aired

every speech that Obama gave in its entirety or any other president for that matter. Trump has played the media for much too long. It is about time they wised up.

[Nitram]

23. Excellent. The resistance spreads, the rebellion begins.

Set up a guillotine in front of the WH.

[George II]

25. It was a campaign speech, plain and simple.

[workinclasszero]

26. Everything out of Shitler's mouth is a damned lie or

a racist rant.

The American people have had a bellyful of that garbage, no need for anymore!

[lagomorph777]

27. "Fox News remained on the speech for about ten minutes longer, according to social media reports"

Even the reporter couldn't stand watching Fox long enough to verify the timing, and instead relied on social media. That's understandable enough.

[riversedge]

28. Donny bragging on and on (from what I have read. can't force myself to watch).

[spartan61]

29. I also cut away from

Trump's "Speech" two minutes after he started speaking. I turned the TV off. Can't stand to hear him.

[muntrv]

30. First Amendment does not mean media must kiss your butt.

[Loki Liesmith]

31. The first time is the hardest

[SunSeeker]

32. Everything out of Shitler's mouth is a lie and means nothing. It is not newsworthy for broadcast.

The networks rarely stopped everything to broadcast Obama's speeches, even though his speeches actually announced real policy changes, actual initiatives started, etc.

[mainstreetonce]

33. He was bragging about Roseann

And his beautiful new wall that does not exist.

[SayItLoud]

37. Here's a thought

Boycotts seem to work. Why not start letting cable/networks/radio know that covering *speeches* that are filled with lies, not once but during every speech by this F'n MORON will have each and everyone of us turning their channel off? The moron's ramblings are never policy speeches as the ORAL OFFICE claims they are campaign speeches to stir his demented base and play dates for The F'n MORON to go play amongst the deplorable lemmings who support him. He has no policies and not soul.

[joanbarnes]

38. Lordy, its about time........if they did this sooner we would all be in better shape.