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A couple of Time Warner shareholders went after CNN CEO Jeff Bewkes Thursday in LA at a Time Warner shareholders meeting [...] David Almasi, the Veep of the National Center for Public Policy Research1, a conservative communications and research foundation, is in LA to question Bewkes. Both Almasi and President David Ridenour are Time Warner shareholders.
[...] “Mr. Bewkes, we have urged you many times to make CNN more objective,” Almasi said in his statement. “You have admitted to us in 2014 the need for more balance. We praised you last year after CNN President Jeffrey Zucker also acknowledged this and acted on the need for more diverse views. But bias is apparently worse than ever. As shareholders, we are concerned about the repetitional risk to our investment in Time Warner as CNN appears to be a key player in the war against the Trump presidency.”
Almasi cited a Media Research Center2 study of CNN programing for 14 hours and 27 minutes of news coverage back on May 12. The report concluded that all but 68 minutes were devoted to Trump with 96 guests out of 123 being negative.
[...] “I’m inquiring about CNN’s bias and our return on investment,” Almasi continued in his statement. “Half of the American public – which includes potential and current CNN viewers – voted for Trump last November and supports his agenda. CNN acts as if it is part of the anti-Trump resistance. Are you willing to lose viewers, possibly forever, because of the bias?”
Almasi even threatened Bewkes, saying that Media Research Center plans to alert advertisers about news programs that “peddle smear, hate and political extremism.”
He asked Bewkes, “Are you concerned about advertisers leaving CNN? Will you continue to ignore our appeals for objectivity at the risk to our investment in Time Warner?”
Source: The Daily Caller
1The National Center for Public Policy Research, founded in 1982, is a self-described conservative think tank in the United States. In February 2014, at Apple Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting, NCPPR proposed Apple "disclose the costs of its sustainability programs" was rejected by 97% vote. The NCPPR representative argued that Apple's decision to have all of its power come from greens sources would lower shareholders' profits.
2The Media Research Center (MRC) is a politically conservative content analysis organization based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by activist L. Brent Bozell III. Its stated mission is to "prove—through sound scientific research—that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values."
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 20 2017, @05:26PM (7 children)
So in de-legitimizing the President, they are also de-legitimizing the entire rest of DC and Wall Street and the entire national power structure.
The press isn't de-legitimizing Trump. Trump is de-legitimizing Trump.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 20 2017, @07:42PM (6 children)
The press think they're de-legitimizing Trump, and others think Trump is de-legitimizing Trump. The point is they're all de-legitimizing a whole lot more than that. The whole ball of wax, in fact.
It's stupid, it's short-sighted, it's very dangerous, and it's all gonna end in tears and fire.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by J053 on Tuesday June 20 2017, @08:06PM (4 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:26PM
Why are you so eager for President Pence? Are you really so anti-homo and anti-abortion that you can't wait another 7.6 years? Pence will get his turn, assuming Ivanka doesn't go for it.
(and if you don't want Ivanka, you're a sexist anti-semite)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:52PM (1 child)
Oh no no no no, we did NOT come out fine. Ford pardoning Nixon was the deathblow to the integrity of the US government. From then on it was open season, all-you-can-eat at the trough. We're finally seeing the ripening of the national karma generated by that piece of rank cowardice and tribalism. Had Ford had the guts to do the right thing, it would have sent a very different message.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @01:04AM
Thank you. All I could imagine from "we got out from Nixon fine" was the "This is fine" meme.
We're not dead so everything must have worked out just fine!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 21 2017, @11:16AM
We were a very different country then.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 20 2017, @11:05PM
Neither the president, nor the Supreme Court, nor Congress has had much legitimacy for a very long time. I for one am not opposed to news organizations saying that the emperor has no clothes when the emperor in fact has no clothes.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.