CNN’s highly criticized town hall event with Donald Trump ― a broadcast filled with lies and inflammatory remarks by the former president and 2024 hopeful ― was met with similar indignation from the network’s own employees after it aired Wednesday night. “It’s hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening,” Darcy wrote in his Reliable Sources newsletter that night. “America was served very well by what we did last night,” Licht said, according to a tweet by former CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter. Story continues“While we all may have been uncomfortable hearing people clapping, that was also an important part of the story,” he continued, noting they represent “a large swath of America.”But Darcy’s not the only CNN employee who has aired grievances about the town hall. “I don’t know anyone who was happy with last night,” one unnamed journalist told Vanity Fair.

Source: CNN May 12, 2023 08:31 UTC