{"id":1930003,"date":"2023-05-12T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T23:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-boss-faces-fury-of-criticism-within-company-after-producing-town-hall-event-people-actually-watched\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T23:14:52","slug":"cnn-boss-faces-fury-of-criticism-within-company-after-producing-town-hall-event-people-actually-watched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-boss-faces-fury-of-criticism-within-company-after-producing-town-hall-event-people-actually-watched\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN executive faces backlash from colleagues for successful town hall event."},"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\">22<\/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-boss-faces-fury-of-criticism-within-company-after-producing-town-hall-event-people-actually-watched%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=1930003&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>CNN Faces Criticism for Allowing Trump to Repeat Lies and Conspiracy Theories<\/h2>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s head honcho Chris Licht faced backlash from both internal and external sources for giving former President Donald Trump a platform to repeat his false claims during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tv-network-ratings-drop-during-bidens-first-full-week-in-office\/\" title=\"TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden\u2019s First Full Week in Office\">town hall event<\/a>. The network, which has been trying to pivot away from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-boss-faces-fury-of-criticism-within-company-after-producing-town-hall-event-people-actually-watched\/\" title=\"CNN executive faces backlash from colleagues for successful town hall event.\">left-leaning coverage<\/a>, was criticized for putting moderator Kaitlan Collins &#8220;in a no-win situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Staffers Criticize CNN&#8217;s Decision<\/h3>\n<p>According to The Washington Post, one staffer said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe anyone thought this was a good idea.&#8221; CNN&#8217;s own media reporter, Oliver Darcy, also reported on the &#8220;fury of criticism&#8221; that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-claims-there-is-no-consensus-criteria-for-assigning-sex-at-birth-in-news-article\/\" title=\"CNN Claims \u2018There Is No Consensus Criteria For Assigning Sex At Birth\u2019 In News Article\">network faced<\/a> after the event.<\/p>\n<p>During an editorial meeting, Licht tried to quell his restive staff by saying, &#8220;You do not have to like the former president&#8217;s answers, but you can&#8217;t say that we didn&#8217;t get them.&#8221; He also defended Collins, who was criticized for not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-amazon-warehouse-workers-who-praise-the-company-reap-rewards\/\" title=\"At Amazon, Warehouse Workers Who Praise the Company Reap Rewards\">pushing back hard<\/a> enough on Trump&#8217;s claims of election fraud.<\/p>\n<h3>MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough Weighs In<\/h3>\n<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough called the event &#8220;breathtakingly dangerous&#8221; and criticized the &#8220;virus of lies&#8221; that has been spread to the American people.<\/p>\n<h3>Defending CNN&#8217;s Role<\/h3>\n<p>Licht praised Collins and defended CNN&#8217;s role in holding the powerful accountable. He said, &#8220;That is our job.&#8221; Despite the criticism, Collins&#8217; star seems to be rising, with reports that she will be promoted to the plum primetime slot at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CNN faced backlash for allowing Trump to repeat lies and conspiracy theories during a town hall event.<\/li>\n<li>Staffers criticized the decision, and MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough called it &#8220;breathtakingly dangerous.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>CNN defended its role in holding the powerful accountable and praised moderator Kaitlan Collins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More On: cnn CNN boss told Trump to \u2018have fun\u2019 before going on stage for ratings-boosting town hall Megyn Kelly says CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins \u2018ill-equipped\u2019 for Trump in \u2018train wreck\u2019 town hall Donald Trump brags about \u2018sky high ratings\u2019 from town hall that CNN \u2018hasn\u2019t seen in a very long time\u2019 Kaitlan Collins defends CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930004,"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":[],"tags":[4265,9373,4272,4864,3741,9165,9313,9167],"class_list":["post-1930003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-backlash","tag-cnn","tag-colleagues","tag-event","tag-executive","tag-hall","tag-successful","tag-town"],"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\/1930003","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}