{"id":1932787,"date":"2023-05-17T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-conduct-of-trump-town-hall-suggests-cnn-has-no-intention-of-moving-to-the-center\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:55:47","slug":"analysis-conduct-of-trump-town-hall-suggests-cnn-has-no-intention-of-moving-to-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-conduct-of-trump-town-hall-suggests-cnn-has-no-intention-of-moving-to-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Conduct of Trump Town Hall Suggests CNN Has No Intention of Moving to the Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fanalysis-conduct-of-trump-town-hall-suggests-cnn-has-no-intention-of-moving-to-the-center%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=1932787&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-->\n<p>News Analysis<\/p>\n<p> Meet the new CNN, same as the old.<\/p>\n<p> Despite its effort to be perceived as moving towards the political center, CNN\u2019s town hall with Trump triggered criticism from both sides of the aisle and did little to shake the perception of the network\u2019s left-wing bias, according to media experts.<\/p>\n<p> Trump appeared on CNN on May 10\u00a0 for the first time in several years to participate in what turned into a contentious primetime town hall.<\/p>\n<p> The event, which featured New Hampshire Republican and undecided voters, began with moderator Kaitlan Collins confronting Trump about the 2020 election, which he continued to say was stolen from him, prompting Collins to rebut him pretty much every time he said it.<\/p>\n<p> Trump also expressed a willingness, were he to win back the White House, to pardon at least some of the participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p> CNN, which has been under the leadership of Chris Licht for a year, has been known for its hostile coverage of Trump even though Licht has sought to turn down the temperature.<\/p>\n<p> But the execution of the town hall suggests CNN has no intention of shifting toward the center nor its approach toward Trump.<\/p>\n<p> Curtis Houck, the managing editor of the conservative media watchdog NewsBusters, told The Epoch Times that CNN got the ratings it sought.<\/p>\n<p> A total of almost 3.31 million people tuned into the town hall, which demonstrated, said Houck,\u00a0\u201cthere\u2019s no evidence CNN is moving towards the center given their reaction to not just Trump, but Trump voters writ large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Jon Nicosia, a media analyst who was an editor for Mediaite, told The Epoch Times that Licht did not have much support inside CNN for the town hall.<\/p>\n<p> He added that some viewers \u201csaw it as a spectacle in which Trump got revenge on CNN\u201d while others are \u201cfurious they allowed him a platform,\u201d also \u201cthe same group of voters who still think the media got Trump elected in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Kevin Tober, a news analyst at NewsBusters, echoed Nicosia\u2019s sentiment and told The Epoch Times that both conservatives and liberals are upset. The former is because of CNN\u2019s antagonistic questions and the latter is due to giving Trump a platform.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAllowing Trump who is a former president and current presidential candidate to participate in a town hall forum isn\u2019t proof of CNN moving to the center,\u201d said Tober.<\/p>\n<p> Nicosia graded Collins\u2019 performance as a \u201cdisaster,\u201d while Tober crticized her for exhibiting a double standard.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cCollins was snarky and childish during the entire event. Asking for clarification or correcting false claims is one thing but constantly interrupting the former president and talking back isn\u2019t how journalists who want to be taken seriously should act,\u201d said Tober.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIf she was aggressive with [President] Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis Meet the new CNN, same as the old. Despite its effort to be perceived as moving towards the political center, CNN\u2019s town hall with Trump triggered criticism from both sides of the aisle and did little to shake the perception of the network\u2019s left-wing bias, according to media experts. Trump appeared on CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1932788,"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":[543],"tags":[7428,5488,9373,10101,9165,8298,5155,4774,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1932787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-analysis","tag-center","tag-cnn","tag-conduct","tag-hall","tag-intention","tag-moving","tag-suggests","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\/1932787","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}