On Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN, Christiane Amanpour repeated her earlier claim that President Donald Trump is “a grave and existential threat” to journalism. The CNN International anchor, who now has a half-hour PBS shows and is soon to get a new hour-long one, Amanpour & Company, proceeded to hail “one of the great things of the Trump administration is how it has caused a huge rise in necessary activism.”
She cited how “women” and “black people have come out,” along with the press, to defend “their right to exist under the Constitution.”
Her comments came during a discussion about a Trump tweet: “Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?”
From the Sunday, May 13 Reliable Sources on CNN:
“I have been talking about this ever since the President was elected, even before he was inaugurated, I made a big speech at the Committee to Protect Journalism in November of 2016, warning American journalists that there was now a grave and existential threat to their work....
“But I think one of the great things of the Trump administration is how it has caused a huge rise in necessary activism. You know, everybody was getting a little lazy, everyone was taking everything for granted, particularly in the United States. And I think women of have come out, you know, black people have come out. The press have come out. Everybody is coming out to defend their profession and their right to exist under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”
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