Joe Biden's campaign took the unusual stop of pleading with the networks to stop booking Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, part of a larger media strategy.
Television news, particularly cable news, is a format well-suited for partisan combat. But Donald Trump's surrogates, among them attorney Rudy Giuliani and political strategist Corey Lewandowski, are stress-testing TV news outlets across the board in the run-up to possible impeachment, raising questions about how networks should tolerate guests who, as in Lewandowski's case, have admitted to misleading the media.k on ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos told Giuliani during a Sept.
Veteran media executives doubt the networks will be swayed by the letter as long as Giuliani remains a central player in a larger story of presidential misconduct. Joe Peyronnin, a former CBS News executive who now teaches journalism at New York University, predicts the letter "will have no real impact" considering that Giuliani "speaks for the president."
"I doubt the Biden campaign really expects networks to respond, let alone stop booking Giuliani, who is obviously newsworthy as the president’s lawyer," says Andrew Heyward, the former CBS News president who is leading a research project on television news at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
While even Giulani's critics acknowledge his relevance, Lewandowski's fitness for television is a "pretty open-and-shut case," Klein says, after the former Trump campaign manager copped to lying to the media earlier this month. "Does that mean I would have him on endlessly as an expert if he continues to lie? No," Melber says. "I wouldn't have him on needlessly if he proves to consistently lie about everything."
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