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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I'm not a great fan of CNN. It's depressing, all those ads about psoriasis medication and reverse mortgages, and the endless talking heads rehashing the same thing over and over.
But I really don't think it's the same as Fox, and definitely not Breitbart. I doubt Breitbart had a paid member of Clinton's staff on board to repeat Clinton talking points and refute Trump. And I don't believe Fox was paying Clinton surrogates to sit on every single panel and give her side of the story.
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True, I was using them more for comparison of perception than my actual evaluation of them as my point was about any media access.
I mean people seem to forget that Trump heavily insulted and basically froze out Fox news early on and gave all kinds of exclusive access to CNN. I think he used that to leverage Fox to be much more of a safe space later on, but they definitely weren't the anti-Trump network that people think.
Might be a preview of Trump's strategy in the White House, if he can play Ryan and McConnell off of Democrats, he might get more of what he wants rather than what Ryan wants.