Since 2016, MAGA propagandists like Kayleigh McEnany, Jason Miller, Jeffrey Lord, Rick Santorum, Ben Ferguson, Steve Cortes, Corey Lewandowski have at one time or another been on the CNN payroll. On one hand, they aided and abetted a figure who amplified violence against CNN, labeled the free press the “enemy of the people,” and with the other, they cashed CNN’s checks.
And yet, the powers-that-be seem to cling to this ludicrous notion that an audience in search of the “most trusted name in news” would somehow benefit from the continued elevation of these professional gas-lighters.
A slew of reports have surfaced in recent weeks describing the desire of CNN’s new top brass to “dial down the prime-time partisanship.” This includes instruction to stop using the phrase “the Big Lie” when reporting on Donald Trump’s completely false claims that the 2020 election was somehow stolen. Apparently, calling something a “big lie” is now considered partisan.
Puck News recently revealed that CNN executives visited with Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy and John Thune to “convince highly skeptical Republican leaders” that “they would get a fair hearing on his network, and that they should come back on its airwaves.” And last week, the network canceled its media affairs show “Reliable Sources”; the host Brian Stelter was often a target for criticism by conservatives over his coverage of MAGA lies during the Trump era.
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