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CNN Is Reportedly Being ‘Iced Out’ by Trump Administration
Mediaite ^ | 7:47 pm, January 31st, 2017 | Josh Feldman

Posted on 01/31/2017 6:31:09 PM PST by drewh

If you’re a regular viewer of CNN’s State of the Union, you may have noticed that in both episodes since inauguration, Jake Tapper has informed viewers of the following:

Follow Jake Tapper ✔ @jaketapper We asked the Trump WH to provide a guest to explain the order & clear up any confusion (even within its own govt). They declined. #CNNSOTU 9:08 AM - 29 Jan 2017 7,561 7,561 Retweets 9,709 9,709 likes Yes, for two weekends in a row no one from the Trump administration has gone on Tapper’s show, even though the CNN anchor is considered a fair-minded journalist by some prominent conservative voices.

But according to Politico, this may be part of a deliberate strategy to “ice out” CNN:

The White House has refused to send its spokespeople or surrogates onto CNN shows, effectively icing out the network from on-air administration voices.

“We’re sending surrogates to places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda,” said a White House official, acknowledging that CNN is not such a place, but adding that the ban is not permanent.

One CNN reporter anonymously told Politico, “They’re trying to cull CNN from the herd.”

Trump administration officials appeared on other Sunday shows this week, they’ve been on Fox News, and Stephen Miller was even on MSNBC with Greta Van Susteren yesterday. But per Politico:

The last time an administration official was on CNN’s Sunday public affairs show “State of the Union” was Conway on January 8. She also appeared on CNN the following Wednesday with Anderson Cooper, the same day as then President-elect Trump’s press conference where he derided CNN for publishing a report that intelligence officials had briefed both Trump and former President Barack Obama that the Russians may have negative information about Trump.

The report says the administration is still answering questions from CNN reporters (Jim Acosta asked Sean Spicer during the first official presser last week), but Spicer has continued to publicly express frustrations with the tone of CNN’s coverage.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fakenews; first100days; keepowt; trump45; trumpmedia
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To: drewh

The press room in the White House should be divided with a glass wall across the middle. MSM can send reporters but they have to sit behind the glass wall and listen through speakers while Alternative Media reporters in the front get to ask the questions.


81 posted on 01/31/2017 8:26:05 PM PST by arthurus
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To: drewh

CNN/Jake Tapper never apologized for promoting Buzzfeed’s lies-filled “dossier”. Jim Acosta never apologized for his extremely rude, accusatory rant at Trump’s first presser. The “CNN seat” in the WH Briefing Room is at the left end of the first row and not seen on camera, making whoever’s sitting there easy to ignore and keeping any attention-seeking or frustration antics unseen by viewers at home. In contrast, the FOX News seat is front row center, and Spicer has taken John Roberts’ questions early on every time.


82 posted on 01/31/2017 8:40:00 PM PST by GAgal
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To: drewh

Whatsa cnn?


83 posted on 01/31/2017 8:46:10 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: drewh; All

I come onto Freerepublic.com now and just scroll down the articles and headlines. It’s like a checklist that I can visually see how much we’re winning.

It’s great. Open up another window and scroll through it. Look at the cascade of wins !


84 posted on 01/31/2017 8:52:32 PM PST by Celerity
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To: drewh

Alinksy Rule 13:

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.

Exactly what President Trump does. He did it with John Kasich and now CNN.

But President Trump adds his own twist to Rule 13, namely he picks only a very few targets, basically just one from each category and makes an example of them, while going out of his way to praise everyone else in that category. In that fashion, everyone looks around them and goes, “Boy, I want to be on that guy’s good side, and not his bad side.”


85 posted on 01/31/2017 9:33:37 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: drewh

Oh, you mean like Obama and Hillary did to Fox ???

See how that game is played?


86 posted on 01/31/2017 9:40:45 PM PST by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: drewh

if they go in to an interview or story with an agenda then they are NOT a news outfit.


87 posted on 02/01/2017 2:25:41 AM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: drewh

“They’re trying to cull CNN from the herd.”


Did anyone in the media go to Fox News defense when Obama spent 8 years demonizing them? I did not think so.

CNN had the chance to be an honest, neutral, news organization. But it choose to pick a side and support those views it agreed with, and demonize those they did not agree with. A poor business decision since you automatically angered half your potential viewing audience.

CNN became just another propaganda outlet for socialist.


88 posted on 02/01/2017 3:06:47 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: All

Donald Trump is not being fair to the Press, he is asking TOO MUCH of them: He is asking them to be fair, honest and intelligent.....(heh)...


89 posted on 02/01/2017 5:14:42 AM PST by Maverick68 (.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

CNN = Crap, not News ...

It’s a fake news website.


90 posted on 02/01/2017 5:17:10 AM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is fake news)
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To: drewh

CNN is less informative than QVC.


91 posted on 02/01/2017 5:17:19 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: drewh
Here's a hint, Jake Tapper of CNN ...

Perfore REAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING on Obama's so-called "birth certificate" and report accurately on any findings of forgery, illegitimacy or fraud connected with it.

For extra credit, do real investigative reporting on Obama's sealed college and early travel records and report accurately on what you find.

After that, you may re-earn the title of "Journalist."

92 posted on 02/01/2017 6:25:13 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: eCSMaster

Perform


93 posted on 02/01/2017 6:26:19 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: Terry Mross
Put all the Propaganda News Networks (PNN) on ice and let them following in the tracks of the Dinosaurs
94 posted on 02/01/2017 6:29:47 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Kenny

NE is more legit than CNN


95 posted on 02/01/2017 7:09:25 AM PST by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: drewh

H’mmm, Trump doing to CNN what Obama did to Fox News.....la de dah!


96 posted on 02/01/2017 9:10:05 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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The Daily Caller ‏@DailyCaller 2h2 hours ago

Someone DEFINITELY Got Fired After This CNN Broadcast Opened With 2 Minutes Of Random Sound Effects [VIDEO] http://trib.al/s9srFBu

97 posted on 02/01/2017 9:12:02 AM PST by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Rome2000

The media has long wanted to destroy America as we know it. That is why they perfectly paired with Obama, the America-hating Muslim Commie. They shared the common goal of a weak, socialist America.

How sweet to see President Trump circumvent the media and talk to us directly. It is also great how he regularly calls them out as dishonest, since that is the truth.


98 posted on 02/01/2017 9:45:23 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

Love it!


99 posted on 02/01/2017 2:54:50 PM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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"We asked the Trump WH to provide a guest to explain the order"

No one owes you a guest. Get bent, Snapper.

100 posted on 02/02/2017 1:15:25 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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