CNN Grills Pro-Trump Press Corps: 'Do You Consider Yourself A Journalist?'
CNN senior correspondent Donie O’Sullivan met with the MAGA influencers who have joined the White House press corps under President Donald Trump, asking them about their fawning and favorable coverage.
O’Sullivan interviewed several members of the so-called “new media,” including former boxing announcer Cara Castronuova, right-wing podcast co-host Natalie Winters and Brian Glenn — who is notably dating pro-Trump Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
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News organizations are scrambling to find a coverage approach that adequately informs the American public about the country’s slide from democracy to authoritarian rule.
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Whether it’s the Des Moines Register’s publication of an unfavorable election poll, a routine edit of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, or the Associated Press’s decision in its authoritative stylebook to continue to use “Gulf of Mexico,” Donald Trump and the White House have used executive authority and legal reprisals in an effort to punish and suppress press coverage that runs contrary to the administration’s preferred narratives.
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