John Whitehouse: None of this was necessary. All of it was predictable.
that there wasn’t enough time in the night to fact-check every false statement Trump made. The format forced Collins to try to interrupt Trump with various fact checks, which only turned him and the audience more against her as the night went on. It culminated with Trump calling CollinsIn a statement, a CNN spokesperson defended Collins as “a world-class journalist” who “asked tough, fair and revealing questions ... and fact-checked President Trump in real time.
First, when producing a live event with Trump, a man with a very long history in the entertainment business, you have to ask whether it is built to entertain or to inform. Any interview or event can be both, of course, but one has to be the priority. Here, CNN claimed that it wanted this town hall to inform viewers. What the network produced, however, was 70 minutes of Trump doing his schtick to a rapturous audience —getting to dunk on a CNN host while he was at it. Trump was quite clearly having the time of his life onstage.
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