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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said Tuesday that the real threat to the First Amendment in the 2016 election had come from Democrats, not from Donald Trump — and that the media had largely missed the threat because of their own partisan bias. Speaking to the Business Insider IGNITION conference in New York City, Bewkes pointed out that the Democratic Party “had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform.” Indeed, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ran on an explicit pledge to change the First Amendment in order...

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes told Business Insider's Henry Blodget on Tuesday that the "real threat" to the First Amendment did not come from President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, but rather from the Democratic Party. Bewkes was speaking at Business Insider's annual IGNITION conference, during which he was asked about Trump's frequent campaign threats to open up libel laws. Trump has also set his sights on Bewkes' own media property, CNN, which he consistently ridiculed along the campaign trail and even after Election Day. "Do you worry about that at all?" Blodget asked. Bewkes said he didn't "think that's...

Time Warner Inc. promoted Jeff Bewkes to president and chief operating officer, making him a clear No. 2 to Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Parsons. [Jeff Bewkes] Mr. Bewkes had been chairman of the media giant's entertainment and networks group. Time Warner also announced that Don Logan, who was Mr. Bewkes co-equal as head of the company's media and communications group, plans to retire at the end of the year. He will become the nonexecutive chairman of Time Warner Cable's board of directors. "Since I asked Don and Jeff to help me run the company in the summer of 2002,...

Jeff Bewkes, newly appointed president of Time Warner and heir apparent to the mightiest throne in American media, has a substantial history of Democrat campaign contributions. According to NewsMeat, he's donated $35,000 to Democrats, $3,500 to the GOP, and $49,000 to special interests. The few "Republicans" he has donated to are McCain and Bob Packwood.