Over 100,000 sign a petition demanding TV networks stop airing Trump's live coronavirus briefings

Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition calling on news outlets to stop the un-edited airing of President Trump's coronavirus briefings, alleging he's using the televised White House briefings as a "live campaign rally."

The petition, created on March 27, points to broadcast and cable networks CNN, ABC, CBS NBC, NPR, and Fox News, calling on them to monitor the briefings and then report out "appropriately edited, valuable, accurate parts, which will come from medical experts."

"President Trump is blatantly using CNN and other news organizations' extensive live coverage to freely campaign for a second term," said Julie Rochman, who authored the petition. "It is wrong and dangerous to provide so much unfettered airtime to someone who is shamelessly spreading damaging misinformation that is already costing fellow Americans their lives."

Rochman, a retired advocate for public health and safety in the property insurance industry, told Business Insider she's not a professional organizer or activist. The petition, which she created less than a week ago, was her first time using the grassroots website MoveOn and she hoped for about 100 signatures, she said.

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