Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! For more from The Nation, check out our latest issueSubscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! In truth, CNN and Trump are both products of the same cable TV tabloid culture that emerged in the 1980s. It was a mutually profitable relationship.9“Before long, Zucker was introducing Trump to advertisers as the man who saved NBC,” Mahler reports.10But Zucker saved Trump, too. Trump won the Republican nomination and the presidency while CNN saw its ratings go through the roof.

Source: CNN May 12, 2023 17:52 UTC