The ex-president “spread lies” about the 2020 election which led to the 6 January riot, it is alleged.

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    1 年前

    Honest question: why do we need live coverage of this? Isn’t it just like “a thing that happened,” and new developments will take days or weeks to come?

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      The details will take hours to come out, and then to be explained, and there will in parallel be political and expert reactions, and the relating and explanation of those.

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      BBC likes this style. Journalists are working in real time to decipher official documents, Trump team responds, other key players respond, etc.

      In my eyes it’s also a way to sort articles in a convenient and timely manner.

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        I know there’s a “queueing” and “British” joke in here somewhere; I just can’t find it.

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      Honest question: why do we need live coverage of this?

      Because US politics is now the biggest reality show on the planet.