{"id":1929233,"date":"2023-05-11T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-joins-hate-fest-against-itself-after-trump-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:32:11","slug":"cnn-joins-hate-fest-against-itself-after-trump-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-joins-hate-fest-against-itself-after-trump-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN faces backlash after Trump town hall."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-joins-hate-fest-against-itself-after-trump-town-hall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Commentators Agree: CNN&#8217;s Trump Town Hall Was a Disaster<\/h2>\n<p>Even those across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uh-oh-joe-biden-coughs-his-way-through-press-conference-video\/\" title=\"UH OH: Joe Biden Coughs His Way Through Press Conference (VIDEO)\">political spectrum<\/a> can agree on one thing: CNN&#8217;s Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">town hall<\/a> with former president Donald Trump was a complete disaster for the network. CNN&#8217;s own Oliver Darcy even joined in on the criticism, packaging up a self-own of backlash in his Thursday morning media newsletter. Trump won the night, and CNN lost bigly.<\/p>\n<h3>MSNBC Torches CNN for Hosting Town Hall with Trump<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s many critics in the media were already mad about the event before it happened, especially at MSNBC. But CNN, desperate to reverse the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-sexual-assault-allegation-toppled-chris-cuomo\/\" title=\"Nolte: Sexual Assault Allegation Toppled Chris Cuomo\">ongoing collapse<\/a> of its ratings since Trump left office, insisted it had a journalistic obligation to question the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. CNN chairman Chris Licht reportedly saw the town hall as a chance to reset with Trump and to attract more conservative viewers.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump Bowls Over CNN Moderator Kaitlan Collins<\/h3>\n<p>Then, Trump got up on stage and bowled over CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins for 70 minutes as the New Hampshire crowd laughed and cheered. Twitter quickly became a stream of anti-CNN hate speech, and the rest of the media wasn&#8217;t far behind. MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough called the town hall &#8220;disgraceful on every level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>CNN Defends Its Role<\/h3>\n<p>CNN spokesman Matt Dornic rushed to defend Collins as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ozy-media-shuts-down-after-scrutiny-over-inflated-site-statistics-and-reach\/\" title=\"Ozy Media Shuts Down After Scrutiny Over Inflated Site Statistics And Reach\">world-class journalist<\/a>&#8221; who was able &#8220;to arm voters with crucial information about his positions as he enters the 2024 election as the Republican frontrunner. That is CNN\u2019s role and responsibility: to get answers and hold the powerful to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Team Thrilled with Town Hall<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s team, meanwhile, was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; about the town hall, according to the New York Times&#8217; Jonathan Swan. &#8220;They can\u2019t believe he is getting an hour on CNN with an audience that cheers his every line and laughs at his every joke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many CNN employees strongly disagree with Licht&#8217;s message<\/li>\n<li>Trump supporters gave CNN little credit for Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-joins-hate-fest-against-itself-after-trump-town-hall\/\" title=\"CNN faces backlash after Trump town hall.\">raucous primetime performance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems that covering Trump is &#8220;tricky and messy,&#8221; as Licht says, and it will &#8220;continue to be messy and tricky, but it&#8217;s our job.&#8221; Whether or not CNN&#8217;s gamble paid off remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: the town hall was a disaster for the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentators across the political spectrum have finally found something they can agree on: CNN&#8217;s Wednesday town hall with former president Donald Trump was a disaster for the network. Even CNN&#8217;s own Oliver Darcy joined the pile-on, packaging up a self-own of backlash in his Thursday morning media newsletter. Trump won the night, and his longtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":1929234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4265,9373,9165,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1929233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-backlash","tag-cnn","tag-hall","tag-town","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}