The Administration’s bid to manipulate CNN/Business has fallen through:
Vice President Mike Pence’s office reversed course on Thursday afternoon, after declining for days to allow the nation’s top health officials to appear on CNN and discuss the coronavirus pandemic, in what was an attempt to pressure the network into carrying the White House’s lengthy daily briefings in full.
After this story was published, Pence’s office allowed for the booking of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield for CNN’s Thursday night coronavirus town hall. Dr. Anthony Fauci was also booked for Friday on “New Day.”
Kudos to CNN for not becoming another Trump thumb puppet. Real-time fact-checking the President, whether they be Democrat or Republican, has become a critical part of the journalist’s craft, and getting the results out as soon as possible strengthens the audience’s perception of honesty of the candidate, whatever that perception may be.
It’d be something if Fox News did the same thing. Competently.
