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After Trump Shooting, PBS NewsHour Anchors Say Original RNC Coverage Plans ‘Went Out the Window’


"PBS News Hour" co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett spoke at PBS' portion of TV Critics Assn. press tour on Monday about covering the RNC.

Asked about what mistakes the media will likely make this week as the RNC gets underway, Nawaz warned against getting too far ahead of still-unfolding stories. And as you’ve seen, in the last 48 hours alone, that story has really faded into the background — largely because Democrats themselves have stopped coming forward in the ways that they were to call for their own presumptive nominee to step down,” she said. As for an ongoing animosity toward the free press — particularly among Trump supporters — “we are living in trying times, and people often make assumptions of bias where there are none,” Bennett said.

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