CNN Boss Warns Star Hosts to Avoid Trashing Trump’s Record

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-23 07:09:23 | Updated at 2025-01-23 13:20:31 6 hours ago

CNN Boss Warns Star Hosts to Avoid Trashing Trump’s Record
Yahoo! News ^ | Wed, January 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM CST | Sean Craig

Posted on 01/22/2025 10:35:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President Donald Trump’s past—including his felony conviction and two impeachments—during inauguration day broadcasts after the network’s top boss told them to show some deference to the most powerful person on earth.

That’s according to a report in media news publication Status, authored by the well-sourced erstwhile CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.

During a routine editorial meeting on Sunday, meant to plan the extensive logistics of an inauguration, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told journalists to avoid “pre-judging Trump,” Status reported.

In addition to instructing them to keep an open mind about Trump’s second term—three days in, the president has already launched attacks on birthright citizenship, pardoned violent insurrectionists, and withdrawn from the World Health Organization and Paris climate agreement—Thompson told his journalists he does not want CNN’s “coverage to relitigate the past.”

Among those in attendance were Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper, star anchors who have long reported on Trump’s record of scandals, opining at length on everything from sexual misconduct allegations made against him by over two dozen women to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

That previous coverage, however, came under the leadership of former boss Jeff Zucker, who threw the weight of CNN at Trump during the president’s first term in office, allowing on-air talent to directly address his stream of falsehoods.

Thompson would have none of that and urged talent to withhold expressions of indignation aimed at Trump or his conduct.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tapper won’t be able to help himself.

2 posted on 01/22/2025 10:36:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tapper has managed to avoid detailing the sexual history of "Faceload" Harris and the awkward stories about Ashley "Daughter With Benefits" Biden and the "Showers with Daddy Joe" stories from the autheticated diary...

Maybe with Jake the Fake, it just depends on the party of person involved.

4 posted on 01/22/2025 10:46:13 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President Donald Trump’s past—including his felony conviction and two impeachments

That is NOT "sordid".

5 posted on 01/22/2025 10:52:28 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, since ABC has had to fork over $15 million for lying about Trump and other media outlets are facing possible defamation judgments against them, I would say that CNN is concerned about being sued.

The author of this article does not seem to share the concern, since he claims that Trump “pardoned violent insurrectionists.” I don’t recall that Trump has done anything of the sort.

Apparently, CBS is also considering settling a lawsuit brought by Trump.

The leftist media outlets have been shameless in their lies and innuendos about Trump since 2015; it’s nice to see a few of them have to face consequences.

6 posted on 01/22/2025 10:58:23 PM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)

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