This article is part of the DC short, the time newsletter policy. Subscribe to stories like this sent to your mailbox for every day. We are only a few hours away from the first virtual political convention gaveled in the session and it is already clear that things are very, very different. go for one that would normally push the Congress Palace for great moments to be selected by their kitchen floors and sofas living like other Americans still stuck at home amid the pandemic reporters. It will bring no delegates because rogue interview or random songs from the ground embarrassed, off-brand moments. Perhaps there are still surprises to give, but they are likely to be the type that scripted by producers and conventions were performed. To veterans of past conventions that all remote set-up just the latest hiccup in this election season this year as the world crown with pliers. Both sides have almost completely switched to streaming plans and cut back on the hours of programming. The Democratic Congress begins tonight, followed by Republicans show this time next week. news agencies nor the evenings as a compliance policy that are at ground zero, but there is much less sizzles in sight as the election campaign in a filmed seen for a long time. It can be chopped for hours and hours talking about something in the back head, quick and less inefficient night strut policy. Before the conventions start, I started with Lester Holt of NBC News, to be a US network news anchor soloist of the first black man. E ‘during the conventions covering net 10:00 are conducting now. With a capacity up to the top news programs on networks, we talked about how the collision had stories of a pandemic, racial justice and framing of a presidential campaign that politicized everything, including masks. Holt will report to NBC Studios in Midtown Manhattan for the next two weeks – a place that has seen only a few times since March. Our conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity. Are you a global event, although there is still no. What it is done? Well, it is very strange to me, because one of the hallmarks of nightly news is that I like to take on the history of television viewers. I want to talk to people. I want to bring a personal connection to the story. And of course, we have this ability to cover a lot of what they lost. Part of the agreements are ongoing negotiations, it is the people that you run into. You pick up little nuggets along the way. This will be very different to be observed in a population study that speak of their living rooms or kitchens can give them. It is a kind of terrific on a personal level, is not it? Oh sure. IS. There is only one thing that we thought it was, of course, that that has been taken from us. From a personal level, I had many expectations this summer. I was going to the Olympics coverage. I wanted to cover these two conventions, a journey in which the debates are. None of these things happen, but the process of a president goes to elections. Like many Americans, and so many companies, we quantify it as we go along. This year has been a rough year for our business. You mentioned the Olympics, which is an institution of NBC. This is off the table for now. We got no conventions, no country road warrior. How can we make it through this, but also exceptional journalism continues to do as an industry? The candidates simply do not travel. I mean, the president and some in the White House bubble moving. We have a little ‘access to Delaware Joe Biden, but you’re right. We are not cover things like we used to be able to. Thank goodness for zoom and some of the other technologies that we could use. But I will not lie: It ‘hard to replace this one-to-one contact that sources ability to maintain and listen only to people and voters and decision-makers about what happened. The public is used to a visual medium. It ranges from falls balloon and pandemonium for what is basically a zoom Happy Hour. Get your audience ready? Measures will be speeches. But at least with the Democrats, do not go a lot of roaring its approval to feel or react in any way. I believe in this, then we will really focus on the words, because the performance art that is part of the conventions that will be missing. The images are so different. You mentioned a hall with balloons falling. We expect someone toaster seen in the background. We can actually get to a point where we are looking on ideas rather than ostentation? I think so. Check four years ago. “Lock them up” has become a mantra for some candidates Trump trailer that time. These moments that you probably will not see. And so we’ll have to focus the message, timing, reacts as the words contrary to what the mass or surprising moments in the amount or demonstrations. I would say that we have so many distractions that we otherwise. If this thing is scripted from the beginning, why bother with it? Harassing, because they know they’re going to get television coverage. You and I are enough to remember the days when the convention coverage from networks of old wall to wall. This no longer happens. But it is still valuable for real estate on television. Can you imagine then do not even know the candidate not transferred consider for a moment on television Convention DIY. There is still a part of the process. Where will you be physically during this session? I will be with Savannah Guthrie in Studio 1A, The Today Show studio. Of course there would distances physically. Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd is therefore four surf in a studio in Washington, by us through the evening. to go on the personal side, in the studio and sit next to Savannah is a huge upgrade. I sit in a spare bedroom every night to me for the last months ago Nightly News. It ‘was a lonely life. I’m not complaining. Obviously there are a lot of people go through tough times. But the 30 Rock ability to go back and sit in the studio is something that I personally thrilled. Do you embrace what the rest of us in the course of this: a suit, tie and recreational sport under the desk? I’ll be honest. Generally wear jeans, but I like to wear this jacket and shirt and tie. Now, I am having said that, I went to do interviews for Nightly News and Dateline pieces. So I am not in time. But in terms of anchoring, which were from a house in the first place. There are converging at the center of the three main stories at once, and the history of the race was when you were quite frankly. Do you have a platform to have, maybe not so Norah O’Donnell and David Muir? People look at me. You expect me to have an opinion or being affected by these things. That does not necessarily show a bias, but it is a recognition that I am as a person. People come probably from this program because they trust me and respect me. If I said something, I think it would be disappointing. Well, I choose my words carefully. But I do not think it is to want to live a bias their ideals this country who want a taste of this country to be honest a bias for people their police function at the service of people. This could be the biggest story of our career. The entire mantra is journalism, a first draft of history. You have a voice in what happens in the book of history. What makes the cut? I wrote the introduction to the show last night. We would be only a weekend another large crowds melt, in open defiance of local and state regulations. That did not air, but it was in the sense that when history is written, because this country has failed with this pandemic in handling volumes will make our inability to simple things like wearing a mask and social distancing spent ‘become . This is a paraphrase, but it’s close enough. I believe it is appropriate to sometimes call what it is. This is an important moment for journalism. This is an important story. And when it ended at the front door, I thought, okay, you know, we took a beating of three and a half years, from people who are trying to discredit us, but that is a story that everyone must respect that people understand the importance of a free press erkennen.’das happened, but then the thrills of new politics in it. I think I was a bit ‘naive. I was not expecting. I thought this is to see what it was: a threat to health that we used all together. Instead of a sudden he was again saw the blue and red through the lens. This was devastating disappointing. I am worried about our future that something like this was overshadowed by politics. We can we remove politics from it, or is it already too late? I think it’s too late. Most people get what it takes to fight this disease. They understand, masks and social distancing. This has almost become the new global warming. The planet is warming. This is not a political statement, but it is for some people. COVID used it to push too many people together. It is not a political statement, but some people will see it as such. As you can embrace venture Science and action? The thing is, as journalists, we have to report the body of science on it, of course, in the direction of social distancing itself is huge and get that mask he wears. We do not want to be caught in a political debate. I do not think that people who politically mean when I say that we should all wear masks. Unfortunately, this is what the environment has led us sort of on the road. A sense that matters in Washington. Subscribe to daily direct current, short newsletter. copyright Image of Celeste Sloman-The Washington Post / Getty Images
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