{"id":11499,"date":"2018-11-05T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:50:34","slug":"cnns-existential-war-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cnns-existential-war-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Existential War With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">I<\/span>t may be unwise or monotonous for President Trump to harp on CNN as a purveyor of \u201cfake news.\u201d And the constant refrain \u201cenemy of the people\u201d should not be used of a media outlet, even one as prejudicial as CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Trump\u2019s obsessions with CNN are largely reactive, not preemptive.<\/p>\n<p>After just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2017\/09\/12\/study-91-percent-of-recent-network-trump-coverage-has-been-negative\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.00f2706d9555\" rel=\"noopener\">100 days in office<\/a>, before his own agendas could even be enacted, the liberal Shorenstein Center at Harvard reported that 93 percent of CNN\u2019s coverage of the Trump Administration was already negative. Just\u00a0<i>one in every 13 CNN stories proved positive<\/i>. That radically asymmetrical pattern (shared by NBC\/MSNBC) had\u00a0<i>never\u00a0<\/i>been seen before in the history of comparable media analytics. No one at CNN sought to explain the imbalance, leaving the impression that the news organization had more or less joined the progressive opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In his serial pushbacks against CNN, if Trump has perhaps surpassed the invective of Barack Obama\u2019s own periodic dismissals of Fox News, he has clearly\u00a0<i>not\u00a0<\/i>ordered his Justice Department to monitor the communications of any CNN reporter, in the manner of Eric Holder\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2013\/05\/james-rosen-spied-on-his-case-is-even-worse-than-the-ap-reporters.html\">surveillance of Fox News journalist James Rosen<\/a>. Associated Press journalists are not being monitored by the administration as they were during the Obama years. That difference is oddly never cited by CNN reporters who are want to decry their own treatment by the administration, but who were not particularly vocal when their professional colleagues were once placed under electronic surveillance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/11\/04\/cnns-existential-war-with-trump\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness It may be unwise or monotonous for President Trump to harp on CNN as a purveyor of \u201cfake news.\u201d And the constant refrain \u201cenemy of the people\u201d should not be used of a media outlet, even one as prejudicial as CNN. Yet Trump\u2019s obsessions with CNN are largely reactive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1205,1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Zt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11991,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cnn-everything-but-the-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":11499,"position":0},"title":"CNN: Everything but the News","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review For a while, we thought MSNBC had temporarily usurped CNN as the font of fake news \u2014 although both networks had tied for the most negative coverage (93 percent of all their news reports) of President Trump\u2019s first 100 days in office. 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So here are ten reasons why more than 40% of the electorate probably does -- and will. 1.\u00a0Voters appreciate that the economy is currently experiencing\u00a0near record-low peacetime unemployment,\u00a0record-low minority unemployment, and virtual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10885,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/this-is-cnn-in-1945\/","url_meta":{"origin":11499,"position":5},"title":"This is CNN . . . in 1945","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson| January 15, 2018 American Greatness What if something like CNN and modern communications were around in early 1945? What if the rules of presidential news coverage were then as they are now? 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