{"id":11991,"date":"2019-09-18T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2019-09-17T10:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:58:04","slug":"cnn-everything-but-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cnn-everything-but-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Everything but the News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cynic would argue that CNN had deliberately given Trump undue coverage during the Republican primary on the theory that he would be the weakest Republican in the general election and would therefore be the weakest challenger to Hillary Clinton. CNN president Jeffrey Zucker at one point had bragged that in the primaries, Trump made CNN money. Only later, after Trump\u2019s nomination, did Zucker regret giving so much airtime to&nbsp;Trump and his boisterous rallies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we made any mistake last year, it\u2019s that we probably did put too many of his campaign rallies in those early months and let them run,\u201d the contrite Zucker conceded in October 2016, at a talk at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School. Yet Zucker admitted that Trump had been a \u201cpublicity magnet\u201d as a primary candidate, and, more important, \u201cTrump delivered on PR; he delivered on big ratings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So CNN\u2019s Zucker gave copious coverage to&nbsp;<em>Apprentice<\/em>-star Trump both to win ratings and to ensure the nomination of a candidate who was polling anemically against Hillary Clinton \u2014 with the intention of then reversing course and destroying Trump in the general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/09\/cnn-trump-derangement-everything-but-news\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. A cynic would argue that CNN had [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11499,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cnns-existential-war-with-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":11991,"position":0},"title":"CNN\u2019s Existential War With Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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The Left\u2019s Hatred Take the Left\u2019s loathing of Trump that arises from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mitt Romney&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mitt Romney","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mitt-romney\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11734,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-progressives-should-know-about-trump-voters\/","url_meta":{"origin":11991,"position":2},"title":"What Progressives Should Know About Trump Voters","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ CNN CNN)Progressives wonder how in the world could anyone still support President Donald Trump. 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On a scale of 1 to 10 just how right wing is the\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":12041,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-military-intelligence-complex\/","url_meta":{"origin":11991,"position":4},"title":"The Military-Intelligence Complex","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. 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