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The Media Is Reckoning With How to Cover RFK Jr.’s Presidential Run (www.vanityfair.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gets his first national town hall with NewsNation, as the media grapples with another conspiratorial candidate. “There’s a difference between giving him a town hall and just covering his candidacy,” one network executive says.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly, could we ignore him?

we can, but obviously that's not going to make much of a difference if the media doesn't--and quite a lot of media outlets seem to be refusing to just ignore him. RFK Jr also has quite an audience already and promotes extremely harmful viewpoints, so the extent to which ignoring him is useful is, i think, debatable on some grounds. it may or may not be a good idea to let him spout anti-vaccine rhetoric unchecked.