“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”
As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.
“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”
As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.
As someone who follows politics mostly through late night shows and memes, that event was one of very few times I’ve seen journalists push back on the guy. This revelation makes pretty clear that ‘no fact checking’ is a routine demand that media orgs routinely cave to, and I now have a ton of respect for NABJ, which I had never previously heard of.