{"id":384389,"date":"2018-11-09T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnn-stopped-doing-news-a-long-time-ago\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:41:54","slug":"cnn-stopped-doing-news-a-long-time-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cnn-stopped-doing-news-a-long-time-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCNN Stopped Doing News A Long Time Ago\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-08\/larry-king-cnn-stopped-doing-news-long-time-ago\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>November 9, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ex-longtime CNN talk show host Larry King dropped a bomb on his former network of 25 years, telling Russian state-owned\u00a0<em>RT America<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cCNN stopped doing news a long time ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid378724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h8Y3YxmtHME?start=103\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s comments came <strong>just one day before<\/strong> CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta engaged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-07\/you-are-rude-terrible-person-trump-unloads-cnns-jim-acosta-during-tense-press\">verbal altercation<\/a> with President Trump over a\u00a0northbound\u00a0Central American migrant caravan\u00a0\u2013 batting a young White House aide\u2019s arm away as he refused to relinquish the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You\u00a0are a rude, terrible person,\u201d said President Trump. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be working for CNN,\u201d adding \u201cThe way you treat Sarah Huckabee is\u00a0<strong>horrible.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acosta\u2019s White House credentials were pulled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-07\/white-house-pulls-cnns-jim-acostas-media-credentials\">later that evening<\/a>. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cPresident Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his Administration.\u00a0<strong>We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-11-07_9-44-42.jpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-11-07_9-44-42.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/2018-11-07_9-44-42.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/2018-11-07_9-44-42.jpg?itok=1OMp2lxK 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d8b00be7-c30e-4b58-9c61-a8917d65a3a5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\"\/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This conduct is absolutely unacceptable.\u00a0<\/strong>It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter\u2019s colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. President Trump has given the press more access than any President in history. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve just been denied entrance to the WH. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the WH grounds for my 8pm hit<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1060332691143491584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he shouldn\u2019t have \u201cAcosta\u2019d\u201d that woman?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sarah Sanders claims Jim Acosta &#8216;placed his hands on a woman&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Acosta says this is a &#8220;lie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video.<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rhkyDD9H8t\">pic.twitter.com\/rhkyDD9H8t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/1060344443616800768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter researcher Kyle (@HNIJohnMiller) provides some background on Abilio James \u201cJim\u201d Acosta:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1) This isn&#8217;t one incident of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/larry-king-cnn-stopped-doing-news-a-long-time-ago.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeNovember 9, 2018 Ex-longtime CNN talk show host Larry King dropped a bomb on his former network of 25 years, telling Russian state-owned\u00a0RT America\u00a0that \u201cCNN stopped doing news a long time ago.\u201d\u00a0 King\u2019s comments came just one day before CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta engaged in a verbal altercation with President Trump over [&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-384389","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\/384389","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=384389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}