Campbell Brown, a former anchor for both CNN and MSNBC, is outright begging her former colleagues to ignore Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump “just for one week.”
“To my former TV colleagues: Please stop. Just for one week, don’t say his name,” Brown wrote Friday in an op-ed for Politico. “Let’s stop being complicit in promoting his hateful and harmful demagoguery.”
Hours after the op-ed was published, Brown tweeted a link to a petition on Change.org to help bring her request to fruition.
I’m sorry but I’m having fun with this. Please sign my petition – Ban Donald Trump from all TV news for one week https://t.co/BnLXMCEJ4b
— Campbell Brown (@campbell_brown) December 11, 2015
“I know what you are going to say,” Brown cautioned in her column. “Your job is to report the news and let Americans decide how to think about it.”
“But I will say this back to you: TV has been obsessed with Trump from the moment he announced, well before he was leading in most polls,” she pushed back. “It’s censorship, some will say. No, it’s not. There’s always YouTube. Let him have YouTube.”
Brown continued, delivering a stinging critique of the GOP hopeful and accusing him of “devouring” the election cycle and “all of TV news.”
“He is not a politician. He is not a leader. He is a supreme narcissist, and you can deprive him of the one thing that keeps him going—airtime,” she wrote.
“Just for one week #TurnOffTrump,” she repeated, using a hashtag that appears to have originated in 2011 when the billionaire was the host of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice.”
At press time, Brown’s petition had only attracted 21 signatures.
