US EditionLeavitt Points to Testy Exchange with Kaitlan Collins as ‘Evidence’ CNN Needs New Ownership
Leavitt cited declining CNN ratings and viewership as basis for new ownership amid bids from Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount, per administration claims.
- On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said CNN should change owners, citing falling viewership, and used a Netflix-Warner Bros. deal question to renew criticism of Kaitlan Collins during the briefing.
- Warner Bros. Discovery's sale process has put CNN up for potential purchase, with Netflix proposing to divest CNN separately and Paramount Skydance, backed by David Ellison and Jared Kushner, bidding.
- CNN host Kaitlan Collins pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on inflation, with fact-checker Daniel Dale disputing Leavitt's 2.5 percent figure and saying, `So when the press secretary told us today that we're very much headed in the right direction, we're not.`
- President Donald Trump said CNN should be sold, indicating he intends to influence government approval, and confronted a CNN journalist on Wednesday, calling them 'an arm of the Democrat Party.'
- On social media, White House Rapid Response 47 said Collins `is not a journalist` and Steven Cheung mocked CNN on X Thursday, while the CNN spokesperson defended editorial decisions.
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The news channel CNN is known from the White House as the »Fear Bunny«, a correspondent as »no journalist«. US President Trump is involved politically and family in the takeover dispute over the station.
Fact-checker says White House 'misleading the public' on inflation
President Donald Trump's administration is cherry-picking inflation data to paint a more flattering picture of the economic climate, according to new reporting from CNN.During the Thursday episode of her show "The Source," CNN host Kaitlan Collins took Trump's White House to task for falsely reporting the rate of inflation more than 10 months into Trump's second term. She began the segment by playing an exchange she had with White House press se…
CNN is at the heart of a financial battle in which US President Donald Trump is politically and familyly involved.
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