NEW YORK (AP) — CBS and NBC have joined CNN in refusing to air an advertisement that lists President Donald Trump’s accomplishments while blaming the “fake news” media for not reporting on them.
Trump’s campaign team also says ABC would not air the ad, although an ABC representative did not immediately respond to queries on Friday. CNN said it did not air the ad because its request to eliminate a “fake news” graphic was refused. NBC similarly cited the “incorrect” graphic that was shown over the face of NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, among others.
CBS isn’t commenting on why it turned down the ad.
The Trump campaign is using the networks’ refusal in fundraising pleas and says the decisions “set a chilling precedent against free speech rights.”
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Wouldn’t it be better to build sand castles than kick em over?
SUE THEM!!!11!!!
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Go full rage tweet stream, trump! You know you want to! Call them fascists! Call them Nazis! Call them traitors to America! Insight some down home firebombing of there offices! Or to you need to get permission from Ivanka before you can have your phone. Baby man trump, are your going to listen to a woman???
Hahaha hahaha! I guess they don’t know what chilling free speech comes from. And it ain’t from the stupid teevee networks with no power to send ICE stormtroopers to arrest and terrorize.
They should have just shown the ad – it couldn’t have been more than 6 seconds long. Who would have noticed?