They need a ringmaster
Posted on 04/09/2020 12:28:25 PM PDT by bitt
The office of Vice President Mike Pence will no longer allow members of the White House coronavirus task force to appear on CNN unless the network broadcasts President Donald Trump’s daily press briefings in their entirety.
Pence’s office, which is responsible for booking the officials on networks during the pandemic, said it will only allow experts such as Dr. Deborah Birx or Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear on CNN if the network televises the portion of the White House briefings that includes the vice president and other coronavirus task force members.
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After Trump leaves the podium, CNN frequently cuts out of the White House briefing to discuss and fact-check what the President had said. A CNN executive said that the network usually returns to such programming because of the extensive length of the full briefing that includes Pence, which can run in excess of two hours.
Pence’s office has barred task force members from participating in interviews on CNN since last Thursday evening.
“When you guys cover the briefings with the health officials then you can expect them back on your air,” a spokesperson for the vice president told the network.
Top coronavirus task force members, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have appeared frequently on CNN and other corporate media outlets since the pandemic began earlier this year. Fauci participated in five CNN town hall events, which featured hosts Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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LKittle Tony Fauci is going to be very butthurt being kept away from his CNN office like that.
Yep, ...As a doctor friend told me a few weeks ago...."You go on the vent and you are 90% in the box". Your lungs are shot and filled with fluid and swollen aveoli. The cytokine storm is ravaging you. Some come out, but the obese, diabetic, old, compromised immune systems, etc....you might as well take next rites, it's over. I am sure Mom MD can confirm what I am saying.
Yes!!!!!
CNN = Corona News Nitwits
Right now nobody’s sitting in an airport terminal and being forced to watch CNN anyway. Their total audience is down to a few hundred brain-dead liberals I would imagine.
Excellent!
Yeah, this probably has more to do with keep certain members of the task force in line than it does with punishing CNN.
Very Trumpian.
What will F'Ouchy do?
Exactly.
They have the last few days. Poor Bret Baier’s show has been TOTALLY preempted! Usually Fox is part way into Martha MacCallum’s show when the press briefing ends. Making HER show the top evening news show on Fox.
Poor Bret /s
If a tree falls in the woods and CNN covers it while the airports are empty do any viewers see it?
Good!
They need a ringmaster
Yes, they do! It usually starts during "The Five" which I do not watch because of Dana and Juan, but they cut to the briefing as soon as it starts. They carry it through Bret's show and part of Martha McCollum's as well.
Exactly! This is a shot across the bow of Falsi and Birx...
” I don’t think even Fox broadcasts the entire briefing.”
they have broadcast the entire “The Trump Show” except for one time when they cut if short to go to some live Martha McCallum “townhall” a few days ago (which apparently bombed)... they’ve never cut it short since then, because i’m sure millions of cable and satellite boxes showed millions of fox viewers instantly switching to CSPAN to catch the rest of the presser ... “The Five” show has even been chortling that their own ratings have gone through the roof because their show is the lead-in to “The Trump Show” ...
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