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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

CNN Could Have Problems

In the next step in their anti-Trump crusade, CNN refused to carry an ad put out by the Trump campaign that featured the accomplishments of the President.  CNN said it was "inaccurate".

This give rise to 2 questions:

1.  Why in the world is there a Trump campaign putting out ads already?

2.  How can CNN refuse a political ad based upon their own opinion of "accuracy"?

The answer is much the same to the two questions.  The Trump ad says that it is listing accomplishments because the media doesn't want the American people to know the truth.  At that point of referring to "the media" there is a couple of pictures of CNN anchors.  The Trump ad is meant to cut through media bias to get Trump's version of the "truth" to the people, and CNN is insulted that it is accused of intentionally concealing that "truth".

There's a problem here for CNN, however.  The ad statement about the media is clearly a political opinion.  A network like CNN cannot legally refuse a political ad because it does not like the opinion expressed so long as the opinion is not advocating violence or other criminal activity.  CNN could easily have legal problems from this refusal to run the ad. 

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