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Eugene

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Fri Sep 2, 2022, 07:20 PM Sep 2022

Correspondent John Harwood abruptly leaves CNN after calling Trump a 'demagogue'

Earlier DU thread: White House Correspondent the Most Recent High-Profile Departure at CNN

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Source: The Guardian

Correspondent abruptly leaves CNN after calling Trump a ‘demagogue’

John Harwood is out as the company’s new head signals shift away from liberal-leaning political coverage

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Fri 2 Sep 2022 21.54 BST

A White House correspondent for CNN – whose new leader wants the channel to adopt what he considers a more politically neutral voice to its coverage – has departed the network after calling Donald Trump “a dishonest demagogue” on the air.

John Harwood announced his exit from CNN on his Twitter account Friday, a day after he spoke favorably of a nationally televised speech by Joe Biden in which the president said that Republican forces loyal to his Oval Office predecessor, Trump, imperiled American democracy.

“The core point [Biden] made in that political speech about a threat to democracy is true,” Harwood said on CNN after the address, which was in primetime. “Now that is something that is not easy for us as journalists to say.”

“We’re brought up to believe there’s two different political parties with different points of view, and we don’t take sides in honest disagreements between them. But that’s not what we are talking about. These are honest disagreements. The Republican party right now is led by a dishonest demagogue.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/sep/02/john-harwood-cnn-correspondent-leaves-trump-demagogue






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Correspondent John Harwood abruptly leaves CNN after calling Trump a 'demagogue' (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
MSNBC Needs To Grab Him nt SoCalDavidS Sep 2022 #1
If John Harwood was fired by CNN for speaking the truth, shame on them LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #5
Thank you Jim for leaving it all on FalloutShelter Sep 2022 #2
Who would have thought that Colbert's old producer is such a douche nozzle. CentralMass Sep 2022 #3
John Harwood may have gotten canned for speaking the Truth LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #4
CNN has turned to the dark side LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #6
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