{"id":820994,"date":"2022-09-30T20:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9030427"},"modified":"2022-09-30T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:46:35","slug":"king-mourns-mother-breaking-news-democracy-under-threat-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/30\/king-mourns-mother-breaking-news-democracy-under-threat-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"King Mourns Mother? Breaking News. Democracy Under Threat? Not So Much."},"content":{"rendered":"
President Joe Biden on September 1 delivered a roughly 25-minute primetime speech<\/a> from Independence Hall in Philadelphia about Trumpism’s threat to US democracy. Primetime, that is, for the two major US television networks that aired it live: MSNBC<\/b> and CNN<\/b>. The others\u2014ABC<\/b>, CBS<\/b>, NBC<\/b> and Fox<\/b>\u2014opted not to carry the address, because they deemed it \u201cpolitical\u201d (Washington Post<\/b>, 9\/2\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n