Attorney Michael Avenatti, once a cable news fixture for his commentary on Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding clients and for obstructing an IRS collection effort.
16.11.2022 - 07:29 / deadline.com
Donald Trump did draw the media spotlight for his presidential announcement speech on Tuesday, but the networks varied in how they approached the event, carrying parts of it and cutting away at others.
The coverage perhaps offers a glimpse of how Trump will be covered as he embarks on his third presidential bid.
CNN carried the speech from Mar-a-Lago for more than 20 minutes before cutting away when Trump made the official announcement. Anderson Cooper then went to a fact check with Daniel Dale, a fixture during the 2020 election cycle. The network also had more build up to the speech than its rivals, previewing it in the previous hours, including Cooper’s interview with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and Erin Burnett’s interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, the author of two Trump books who was in Mar-a-Lago to cover the speech. It also featured shots of the Mar-a-Lago ballroom filling up with guests in front of the empty lectern.
Fox News carried much of Trump’s speech during Hannity and portions of it during The Ingraham Angle, cutting away at different moments as it approached the one-hour mark. When Trump started talking about “Angela,” meaning former German chancellor Angela Merkel, Hannity went to Mike Huckabee and Pete Hegseth for their glowing reviews. Huckabee said that Trump would be “unbeatable” if he stayed on message like he did in the speech; Hegseth talked of there being “only one original” amid a potential field of GOP rivals.
Those positive remarks are a contrast to those offered by other Rupert Murdoch outlets, like the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, which have bashed Trump in the wake of midterm losses. As if to try to spin that into a Trump win, Monica Crowley later told Ingraham
Attorney Michael Avenatti, once a cable news fixture for his commentary on Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding clients and for obstructing an IRS collection effort.
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