Trump Team Blacklists CNN On The Sunday After Inauguration

[Alekzander]

This is where the media could fight back. None of those other networks or cable news shows should let any of Trump's people on until they lift the blackout.
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President Donald Trump and his team continued their unprecedented attempts to delegitimize and blacklist CNN by refusing to have a representative appear on CNN’s Sunday political talk show, State of the Union, while booking appearances on the other major political talk shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox Broadcasting Co.

At the top of the January 22 edition of CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper said that his show “asked the Trump White House for a member of the new administration to join us this morning, but they declined.” Members of Trump’s team including White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, however, made appearances on the other major Sunday political talk shows: This Week on ABC, Face The Nation on CBS, Meet the Press on NBC, and Fox News Sunday on Fox Broadcasting Co. Trump and his team have a long history of blacklisting reporters from events, most notably when Trump revoked The Washington Post’s press credentials during the Republican primaries.

Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/22/trump-team-blacklists-cnn-sunday-after-inauguration/215079

[Kilgore]

1. Will never happen

The other networks will view this as an advantage over their competition.

[hells]

2. In trumpland the only real news are coming from brietbart and fox

[Achilleaze]

3. Let the Blacklisting begin! Followed immediately by THE PURGE!

In the end, only true believers who Assume the Position and pledge abject kissass fealty to Comrade Casino & KGOP Cabal of Cronies, Inc., will be spared.

[mn9driver]

4. CNN should have guests that talk about Trump's lies and

corruption and Russia links on every one of their shows. I'd watch.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

34. +1 nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. Viewership would explode.

[bdamomma]

5. I hope the Press

strikes back.


CNN is not fake only tRump is.
This regime will be learning the hard way...........don't fuck with our rights.

[coolbreeze77]

6. If CNN had any balls they'd say fuck it and roast him for 4 years straight.

They should investigate and start digging up dirt on him until he screams uncle.

[jonno99]

7. THIS! nt

[Foo Fighter]

8. Exactly. nt

[regnaD kciN]

12. Precisely...

...why not pick up the mantle of "news network for the majority?"

[roamer65]

14. Fareed Zakaria started it today.

He was utterly vicious in his show today. It was very enjoyable. Actual debunking of Dump's lies and brutal commentary.

[SharonAnn]

17. Good, i'll be able to watch CNN on Sunday Mornings.

[JI7]

20. he has usually been good. the problem is the everyday ones like Dana Bash, Wolf Blitzer and others

another problem is all the right wing idiots they have on to defend anything trump does.

it use to be that if they were debating some economic issue they would at least have someone with that background on to discuss that.

but now they just bring on any random jackass to debate any issue from taxes, foreign policy, education etc.

[True Dough]

30. Love Fareed

Wish I caught GPS this morning based on what you wrote.

[uponit7771]

22. +1, this is my understanding of what they're all supposed to do and the stations that wont cooperate

... at all make them fringe.

If they work together they can squeeze Benedict Donald's band of bigots to represent the edge of stupidity

[ProudProgressiveNow]

35. +1 nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

43. It'd be the most watched news EVAH! I'd watch snd I never watch

[Jim Beard]

9. CNN can pay a dummy that attends a news conference to get the news. Maybe not ask questions.

Report all kinds of crooked shit about Trump and bring all the attacked women on night after night and they will give in.

[regnaD kciN]

13. Maybe they could hire an ex-male-stripper for the part?

[Jim Beard]

15. His way of increasing jobs. :)

[democratisphere]

10. CNN needs to hammer the drumpf administration relentlessly

[Me.]

11. Nice Break For CNN Viewers

[KewlKat]

16. CNN could always just use alternative facts couldn't they?

[AgadorSparticus]

18. CNN needs to find their voice, take a stand, and and fight like hell.

Maybe, just maybe, this may be the impetus we need to get back to journalistic integrity.

[Cha]

19. they should be blackslisting msnbc, too, for the horrible

way todd tried to get kac to answer his question.. the horror of it

kac did threaten with .. "I may have to rethink our relationship"

"The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trumps press secretary killed it"

As Jessica Huseman of ProPublica put it: “Journalists aren’t going to get answers from Spicer. We are going to get answers by digging. By getting our hands dirty. So let’s all do that.”

No more stenographers.. spicer killed that at his own peril.

Journalists should respond by doing their jobs responsibly, fairly and fearlessly, in service of the public good.

Somebody has to be the grown-up in the room. We’ve just been reminded of who it won’t be.

That's what we were always asking for.. it was President Obama who was the adult in the room.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-traditional-way-of-reporting-on-a-president-is-dead-and-trumps-press-secretary-killed-it/2017/01/22/75403a00-e0bf-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sullivan-514pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.da32f28b4c64

Poooor cnn.. all they did was publish the report about Russia.. they didn't even show spicer's idiot presser as a show of good faith.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028519882#post2

[NastyRiffraff]

21. Being blacklisted by that bunch

should be a badge of honor. I'm not a fan of CNN, but this is ridiculous.

As for other media outlets possibly taking advantage of CNN's situation, they should realize that one by one, they too will be punished the minute they say or write something negative about Dump. Soon the only outlets allowed with be Fox and Breitbart.

[TrekLuver]

23. The media must pull together ...I believe they will because they are appearing on those networks

for now...but they'll be next.

[world wide wally]

24. A major boon is in store for CNN anyway when the Trump-Russia treason charges start flying.

Several Washington insiders have hinted at it and I think the intelligence agencies are just filling in the holes to make it air tight before the shit hits the fan.
On that same note, I hope the Dems will stall everything he tries to do for as long as possible.

[doc03]

25. CNN should go like Fox News, only have Democrats on and just trash Trump 24/7. I

think they could get ratings.

[Charles Bukowski]

37. I'd lift my own personal ban on CNN for that.

I haven't gone near them or MSNBC since the day the Comey letter was released.

[skylucy]

26. How is it a bad thing that Conway or any of the rest of Trump deplorables won't

be on CNN? They are totally predictable. They are as boring as they are obnoxious.I turn the channel when they are on.

[KittyWampus]

28. Exactly, every word out of their mouths are lies and spin and mis-direction.

[KittyWampus]

27. So? It's not like they're going to get anything truthful from Trump or the Pressers.

[stevenleser]

29. I just Tweeted at Trump that because of this behavior, I will commit to watching CNN 2-4 more hours

per week.

We should all do the same.

[oasis]

39. I'm good with CNN for now. nt

[True Dough]

31. To keep things in perspective

I think having no one from the Drumpf administration appear on CNN on the first Sunday after the inauguration is a little early to use the term "blacklist."

Does Drumpf have a hate on for CNN? You bet he does, but I have seen Gish Gallop on CNN plenty of times including last week. Let's give it a little more time and see how things develop.

[TheBlackAdder]

32. Trump just wants to see them grovel, if that doesn't happen he down to only three majors to alienate

[Chevy]

33. Then they should fire the Trump sycophants

like Lord, and blinky blinky blondie whatever the hell her name is.

[elmac]

36. CNN should become a real news network

and start serious investigations into tRump/Comey/Russian ties, his taxes, his debts, his attacks on women, his conflicts of interests and basically investigate the entire fascist party.

[TeamPooka]

38. Ok I'll start watching State of the Union now.

[Hekate]

40. After Trump attacked Acosta, Newt Gingrich said this is Trump's chance to break the media...

It's going to be up to the media to decide if they are going to acquiesce to being broken or not.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

41. Good! It should help CNN's ratings if people don't have to see Kellyanne...

and the other liars!

[BainsBane]

44. All the more reason to watch CNN.

[blogslut]

45. I never was a fan of the need for "access".

The GWB years pretty much turned that concept into a farce.

If they can't talk to you, they will talk about you. BLOTUS knows this.

Personally, I never understood how an interview with a truth-spinning, direct representative of the executive branch legitimizes anything. They come on, they obfuscate for a few minutes and then, when they leave, a panel talks about what they said.

Why not save a step or give those minutes to a footworking investigative journalist?