{"id":67608,"date":"2026-02-28T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/trump-just-got-much-closer-to-bringing-cnn-to-heel-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:55:54","slug":"trump-just-got-much-closer-to-bringing-cnn-to-heel-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/trump-just-got-much-closer-to-bringing-cnn-to-heel-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump just got much closer to bringing CNN to heel | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With David Ellison\u2019s Paramount Skydance poised to buy Warner Bros Discovery, the president is tightening his grip on the US media<\/p>\n<p>For many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/aug\/03\/trump-whips-up-crowd-anger-as-he-vilifies-media\">taught his loyal followers<\/a> to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/may\/14\/cnn-trump-debacle-town-hall-us-media\">CNN sucks!<\/a>\u201d reverberated at his campaign rallies, and he still jumps at every opportunity to disparage star CNN journalists such as <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kaitlan-collins-responds-after-being-slammed-donald-trump-smiling-jeffrey-epstein-survivors-11908506\">Kaitlan Collins.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/28\/trump-paramount-skydance-warner-bros-cnn-netflix\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With David Ellison\u2019s Paramount Skydance poised to buy Warner Bros Discovery, the president is tightening his grip on the US media For many years, Donald Trump has trashed CNN and has taught his loyal followers to do the same. During the 2016 presidential campaign, angry chants of \u201cCNN sucks!\u201d reverberated at his campaign rallies, and &#8230; <a title=\"Trump just got much closer to bringing CNN to heel | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/trump-just-got-much-closer-to-bringing-cnn-to-heel-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump just got much closer to bringing CNN to heel | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}