Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
Two Trump advisers familiar with the ads said that they were being created in-house by the White House video team — which is part of the communications team, responsible for the administration’s public messaging.
Coming just over a month before the November midterms, the ads have generated bipartisan criticism over how the Trump administration is spending taxpayer dollars.
Even after being banned from the press pool, cnn insists on calling something that is openly illegal ‘controversial’.
Which is funny, because none of this shit is controversial anymore. But it’s all still very illegal!
Ellison is about to be their boss, so writers don’t want to say anything too bold. Might lose their job.
It’s weird how many years morons spent calling the Murc’s Law Media the “liberal media”.
Fuck, we won’t even have a corporate centrist media after all this corruption is over with.
They’re a bunch of cowards. Don’t expect better from them.
Cnn is complicit, their public spat is just for show
I often find myself thinking that, but i suspect the truth is more complicated. I’d guess the situation at cnn is more nuanced and piecemeal than just being straight up complicit.
I watch a show on CNN called Have I Got News For You, where comedians play games and discuss the week’s news. The people on that show are very openly anti-Trump. so, at least some of CNN’s programming is allowed to criticize and mock Trump. I expect the show to be canceled after Paramount takes over CNN.
Check out the british version of HIGNFY! I’ve enjoyed the US one a lot, but the british one is even better.
I probably will at some point
I hope you’re right
They’re doing what their shareholders demand
“Controversial” is one of those terms that is so ridiculous. I am pretty sure The Professional Left spent most of a podcast talking about it and mocking it.