Trump campaign accuses CNN of censorship for refusing to run ad calling it FAKENEWS

[Alt-Orange]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-cnn-fake-news-100-days-ad-48787f87aef7

This week, CNN has been running ads produced by Trump’s reelection organization — the 45Committee — touting the president’s alleged accomplishments during his first 100 days in office.

But on Tuesday, the 45Committee released a statement accusing the network of suppressing its “free speech” by refusing to run one that smears CNN and other mainstream cable networks as “FAKE NEWS.”

Toward the end of the 30-second spot in question, a narrator says, “You wouldn’t know it from watching the news — America is winning, and President Trump is making America great again.” While he says that, a “FAKE NEWS” graphic appears superimposed over the faces of cable news anchors, including CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. they have the right to refuse any ad

[angstlessk]

2. ONLY the government must guarantee 'free speech', otherwise it's called

the FREE MARKET!

[duncang]

3. They are kind of late on that stuff

What about the dipshit donnie ads you ran? Or shit you repeated over and over trying to sound fair? Make it a horse race?

[Doodley]

4. Like a true fascist, Trump wants only his lies and distortions to be "the facts"

and all opposition is fake. The world can go to war, the ice sheets can melt, millions can lose healthcare, trillions of dollars can go to the super-rich, but that is all fake, because we all need to believe that Trump is simply making America great.

[Gothmog]

5. Boo Hoo

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. All part of the distraction.

Now he can get a few days coverage out of the fight over his stupid ad, and maybe no one will notice that Director Comey is giving testimony.

[mwooldri]

7. We need an Advertising Standards Agency.

This kind of shit would never see the light of day on UK TV - primarily because of a lack of an enshrined absolute freedom of speech in a written constitution... or maybe the lack of a written constitution whatsoever... but all advertising (TV, radio, print) has to abide by the code as enforced by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (https://www.asa.org.uk/).

Basically it's this: Adverts in the UK aren't allowed to run if they are not legal, decent, honest or truthful. Political advertising outside of a General Election has to follow all of the code, and only some of the code at election time. No political advertising on TV during a general election, but political parties have airtime for a "party political broadcast" at a prescheduled time. (Basically, News at Ten starts at 10:10, you can flip to a different channel while the X Party Political Broadcast airs).

Aside from my belief that the entire Trump administration isn't legal, decent, honest or truthful... we are not at this stage in a Presidential election. The advert the 45 Committee released certainly doesn't fall under "truthful".

I know it's a bit anti-First amendment to restrict speech in this way, but I think it will help kill some of the fake news that exists. Failing that, CNN (and any other broadcaster for that matter) is fully within its rights not to broadcast anything. But oops... CNN stands for what now? Cable News Network? Not exactly an old school terrestrial broadcaster, fully regulated by the FCC now, eh?

[neeksgeek]

8. Why would any businesss support an ad campaign

That attacks their own business?

They wouldn't.