{"id":361186,"date":"2018-05-14T22:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cnn-reporter-complains-trump-empowers-dictators-against-the-media\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T21:52:18","slug":"prison-planet-com-cnn-reporter-complains-trump-empowers-dictators-against-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cnn-reporter-complains-trump-empowers-dictators-against-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb CNN Reporter Complains Trump Empowers Dictators Against The Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA grave and existential threat; Dangerous around the world\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>May 14, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN\u2019s never-ending Trump bash-a-thon continued at the weekend with Chief International Correspondent\u00a0Christiane Amanpour complaining that the President\u2019s treatment of the press is \u2018dangerous\u2019 and allows authoritarians to \u2018beat up against\u2019 the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Brian Stelter\u2019s <em>Reliable Sources<\/em> to discuss Trump citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2018\/05\/08\/media-get-trumped-presidents-polls-improve-despite-90-negative\">a study<\/a> last week indicating 90 percent negative media coverage against him, Amanpour went to great lengths to impress that she has been complaining since the very start of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been talking about this ever since the President was elected, even before he was inaugurated, I made a big speech at the Committee to Protect Journalism in November of 2016, warning American journalists that there was now a grave and existential threat to their work,\u201d\u00a0she declared.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/529739\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, because the United States has a constitutionally protected journalism, and a constitutionally protected press, by the First Amendment, that the press will keep its spine and refuse to bend over to these kinds of threats,\u201d Amanpour exclaimed, referring to Trump\u2019s tongue in cheek indication that he may work to remove credentials from reporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy &amp; all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/994179864436596736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf they do, I expect the press to fight back, in no uncertain term. Or, to gather forces outside and continue to be able to report in a very, very strong, unbiased, facts, not fiction kind of way for as long as it takes.\u201d Amanpour added.<\/p>\n<p>Unbiased? Facts not fiction? This is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cnn-reporter-complains-trump-empowers-dictators-against-the-media.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA grave and existential threat; Dangerous around the world\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMay 14, 2018 CNN\u2019s never-ending Trump bash-a-thon continued at the weekend with Chief International Correspondent\u00a0Christiane Amanpour complaining that the President\u2019s treatment of the press is \u2018dangerous\u2019 and allows authoritarians to \u2018beat up against\u2019 the media. Appearing on Brian Stelter\u2019s Reliable Sources to discuss Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}