Jeffrey Bewkes: ‘Democrats Were Bigger First Amendment Threat Than Trump’

Posted: December 6, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, History, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Antonin Scalia, Chris Cuomo, CNN, Donald Trump, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Flag of the United States, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of the press, Supreme Court of the United States, Twitter |1 Comment

‘The threat to the First Amendment came from the Democratic side more,’ he says, arguing that journalists viewed a Democratic plank “overly charitably” as campaign finance reform.

Paul Bond reports: When it comes to politicians trampling free speech and free press, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said Tuesday that he doesn’t fear president-elect Donald Trump as much as he does his rivals on the other side of the aisle.

“The threat to the First Amendment came from the Democratic side,” Bewkes said during a conversation with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget at a conference in New York in a session that was webcast.

Bewkes made the comment after Blodget noted that Trump had criticized CNN for allegedly unfair coverage, and even threatened some sort of regulation in retaliation against CNN, owned by Time Warner…(read more)

Source: Hollywood Reporter