This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features CNN’s Christiane Amanpour calling President Trump a “threat” to journalism that has sparked “necessary activism” against Trump.
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, Amanpour repeated her earlier claim that Donald Trump is “a grave and existential threat” to journalism. The CNN International anchor, who now has a half-hour PBS shows and is soon to get a new hour-long one, Amanpour & Company, proceeded to hail “one of the great things of the Trump administration is how it has caused a huge rise in necessary activism.”
She cited how “women” and “black people have come out,” along with the press, to defend “their right to exist under the Constitution.”
Her comments came during a discussion about a Trump tweet: “Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?”
From the Sunday, May 13 Reliable Sources on CNN:
“I have been talking about this ever since the President was elected, even before he was inaugurated, I made a big speech at the Committee to Protect Journalism in November of 2016, warning American journalists that there was now a grave and existential threat to their work….
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018
“But I think one of the great things of the Trump administration is how it has caused a huge rise in necessary activism. You know, everybody was getting a little lazy, everyone was taking everything for granted, particularly in the United States. And I think women of have come out, you know, black people have come out. The press have come out. Everybody is coming out to defend their profession and their right to exist under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Nice to hear a liberal journalist see something good from Trump. Naturally, it’s how he’s fueling liberal activism. Funny, I don’t recall Amanpour ever thanking Obama for prompting a resurgence of conservative activism.”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
