To air or not to air? The nation’s TV networks and their news operations spent the hours leading up to President Donald Trump’s address Thursday night debating how to cover it.

The decision whether to carry a presidential address has become a high-stakes editorial judgment.

TV networks worry they could be doing their viewers a disservice by airing a speech that may contain falsehoods about the 2020 election

The address, which is expected to center around election security, has put TV networks between a rock and a hard place.

The broadcasters will stream the address and break in if needed, with other networks still scrambling to determine their plans for the speech.

To air or not to air? The nation’s TV networks and their news operations spent the hours leading up to President Donald Trump’s address Thursday night debating how to cover it.

NBC and CNN stayed away from White House speech, while Fox News, MS Now, CBS and some ABC affiliates aired it

Some major TV networks showed President Donald Trump’s prime-time address live on Thursday night while others pointedly did not — a divide that highlighted Trump’s long record of…

As President Donald Trump threatened sanctions for those who didn’t cover his address live Thursday night, the nation’s broadcast and cable news operations wrestled with the…