Friday Nite Videos | October 23, 2020
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Stephen goes LIVE after the final Trump-Biden matchup and finds a silver lining amid the lies, cheap shots and unmasked racism.
Joe Biden shot down assertions of President Trump during the final presidential debate on Oct. 22 with a repeated retort: “C’mon man.”
Candidates can get easy applause by lambasting journalists. Nevertheless, as a scholar concerned with the critical functions journalism fulfills in a democracy, the author argues that the highest imperative for journalists is to serve the needs of audiences and the democratic process for critical information. Journalists moderating presidential debates must function as journalists.
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