Why do the networks continue to air the "pressers"?

[Kyblue1]

[SoonerPride]

1. they are obsessed with giving that dumfuck free air time just like in 2016

[PSPS]

2. Apparently it attracts viewers for their ads

[TrishaJ]

3. Not THIS viewer.

Not seeing any of their ads.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. There Are No Ads

That's the baffling part.
These are aired uninterrupted. So eyeballs, no matter the number, with no ad revenue is useless.

[PSPS]

8. The ads are around it.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Financial Small Potatoes

That's not why advertisers spend huge money. That's ancillary spending.

[USALiberal]

4. Because it is news. nt

[The Magistrate]

5. Pehaps To Drive Down The Cheap Thug's Approval Ratings Further, Sir

He presents such a repellent spectacle of crass self-regard and grotesque mental imbalance that their general effect to rouse disgust, even hatred.

It is different from a rally, where he preens and postures before an adoring crowd wh cheers him on. This is a glimpse of the cheap thug actively engaged in mis-government, and people do not like it.

[Hortensis]

6. How many times is this question asked? HE'S THE PRESIDENT.

This is a big part of their role in a democracy, considered so important by our founders that they wrote it into the First Amendment.

Some are able to cut away when they can identify a clear switch to campaigning.

Now, why is anyone who doesn't have to watching?

I watch the later clips of his lies and proofs of his massive incompetence that the press summarize for me. As Brian Williams does. He's been opening each night with a series clips revealing Trump's lies and pathological dishonor and incompetence that day, followed by Williams saying, "meanwhile, in the REAL world," and a series of reports informing the public and revealing Trump for what he is.

[Kyblue1]

9. He is also.the president when takes a dump on his gold toilet,

but televising that would be just as much of a waste or the public airwaves as his bullshit “pressers”

[Hortensis]

11. Yup. I didn't mention that most MSM work to elect Republicans.

It's a balancing act. They don't want Trump, DO want continued Republican control of governments at all levels. If they were really that friendly to the RW leadership's fall guy, they wouldn't help him expose himself so much.

[ooky]

12. My opinion is it's because their corporate ownerships want another 4 years

for Trump. Otherwise they would not give him a platform to deliver his daily propaganda. This has clearly gone way past "coronavirus updates". That's a ruse.

I receive this as pure propaganda to help enable the completion of the ongoing "Republican" effort to take over our country with a fascist regime.