Tag: CNN

White House suspension of reporter’s press credential at issue in First Amendment lawsuit

Washington Post

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was considering a First Amendment lawsuit from journalist Brian Karem, a White House correspondent for Playboy magazine and CNN contributor. Karem sued the president and White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham after his credential was pulled for 30 days following a verbal confrontation in the Rose Garden last summer.

Karem’s lawyer Theodore Boutrous Jr. told the court Monday that “ensuring that the press can vigorously cover this president and the White House is more important than ever” as the nation now confronts the deadly coronavirus.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/white-house-suspension-of-reporters-press-credential-at-issue-in-first-amendment-lawsuit/2020/03/23/1afd54dc-6d26-11ea-a3ec-70d7479d83f0_story.html

Trump threatens to sue CNN, seeks ‘substantial’ payment over damages: letter

Reuters

Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign have threatened in a letter to sue CNN for what they said was the network falsely advertising itself as a news organization, calling on executives to first discuss an “appropriate resolution” to the matter that would include a “substantial” payment to cover damages.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cnn/trump-threatens-to-sue-cnn-seeks-substantial-payment-over-damages-letter-idUSKBN1WX2B1

Judge orders White House to restore press pass of reporter involved in confrontation

Washington Post

A federal judge on Tuesday reversed the White House’s decision to suspend a reporter’s press credentials, granting a motion that will restore him to his beat. The ruling was a victory for Brian Karem, a White House correspondent for Playboy magazine and a CNN political analyst, who had been suspended by officials for 30 days in mid-August because of his role in a verbal confrontation with a former White House aide at a White House event on July 11.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/judge-orders-white-house-to-restore-press-pass-of-reporter-involved-in-confrontation/2019/09/03/7c661a44-cdf6-11e9-8c1c-7c8ee785b855_story.html

Federal officials raise concerns about White House plan to police alleged social media censorship

CNN

Trump proposed a draft order that puts the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission in charge of overseeing claims of partisan censorship on social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/tech/ftc-fcc-trump-social-media/index.html

Trump, McCarthy cite video games as a driver behind mass shootings

CNN

Following more mass shootings, President Trump claims violent video games are one of the reasons behind mass shootings in the US.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/politics/kevin-mccarthy-mass-shootings-video-games/index.html