Trump's War With CNN Escalates: CNN Refuses Ad Buy After Trump Characterizes Anchors As "Enemies"
By ursulafaw at Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/15/1689912/-Trump-s-War-With-CNN-Escalates-CNN-Refuses-Ad-Buy-After-Trump-Characterizes-Anchors-As-Enemies
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Donald Trump stepped up his ongoing feud with CNN today, alleging that the network blocked an ad buy by Trump’s re-election campaign, allegedly “censoring the message to the American people that ‘President Trump’s plan is working,’ the campaign said in a press lease.” Hollywood Reporter:
The 30-second ad, called "Let President Trump Do His Job," features a broadside against the media, and accuses journalists of attacking the president. "The president's enemies don't want him to succeed," the ad says, flashing on the screen the faces of many prominent journalists, including CNN anchors Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper.
It was this "enemies" graphic that CNN took issue with, though a network source said the ad was not rejected, as the campaign alleged. A CNN spokeswoman, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, said: "CNN would accept the ad if the images of reporters and anchors are removed. Anchors and reporters don’t have 'enemies,' as the ad states, but they do hold those in power accountable across the political spectrum and aggressively challenge false and misleading statements and investigate wrong-doing."
The re-election campaign first accused CNN of censorship in early May for rejecting an ad called "First 100 Days" that also included an attack on the media as "fake news." CNN, at the time, said it requested that the "fake news" designation be removed from the ad, as "the mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false."
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