Topic: Media Trickery

The House Select Committee hired former ABC News President James Goldston to produce the January 6th hearings for a primetime television audience. This move is criticized as an attempt to use Hollywood-style production techniques and "media trickery" to dramatize a political proceeding. While CNN and MSNBC plan to carry the hearings live, Fox News has opted not to broadcast the event in primetime.

CNN is criticized for a segment featuring Nancy Grace where two individuals appeared to be on a satellite connection despite being in the same parking lot. This incident is used to highlight long-standing practices of technical trickery in television news intended to create a false sense of distance and urgency.