Carl Bernstein suggests media should edit White House pressers before airing them
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Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein said cable news networks should stop broadcasting White House press conferences and briefings in their entirety because they have become "propagandist exercises."
"I don't think we should be taking them live all the time and just pasting them up on the air because they're basically propagandist exercises because they are overwhelmed by his dishonesty and lying," Bernstein said during a segment of CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, referring to President Trump. "Maybe we should be there, edit, decide as reporters what is news, and after the press conference or briefing is over then go with that story with clips rather than treating the briefing or press conference as a campaign event, which they really are."
But Bernstein added it was important to still record the events and make them available online for the record. He also noted that cable news had cause to reconsider its coverage of the White House before the Trump administration took office.
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A CNN spokeswoman did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment regarding Bernstein's proposal.
CNN in the past has declined to broadcast Trump administration press conferences uninterrupted, including one featuring former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in 2017 shortly after he insisted Trump drew “the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period.”
Bernstein's comments come after CNN sued Trump administration officials over the revocation of press access for its chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta and won. The interview also comes as networks are carrying fewer Trump's rallies held before the 2018 midterm elections on live TV.
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