CNN Appears to Have Benched Two Pro-Trump Contributors
CNN president Jeff Zucker is famously committed to ideological diversity. "You can't run a news channel and you can't do a show if you don't talk to all sides," he told The Hollywood Reporter in April.
But two of CNN's most prominent conservative contributors have been absent from the network in recent months.
Steve Cortes, a prominent surrogate for the Trump campaign in 2016 and "happy warrior" for President Trump, has not appeared on CNN in the U.S. in more than a month. Ben Ferguson, a veteran Republican commentator, has not been on ...
But two of CNN's most prominent conservative contributors have been absent from the network in recent months.
Steve Cortes, a prominent surrogate for the Trump campaign in 2016 and "happy warrior" for President Trump, has not appeared on CNN in the U.S. in more than a month. Ben Ferguson, a veteran Republican commentator, has not been on ...
- 8/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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