Ex-CNN host says the network gives racists a platform as a "ratings ploy"

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/418201-ex-cnn-host-rips-into-network-they-give-a-platform-to-racists-as-a-ratings

Former CNN host Soledad O'Brien on Sunday tore into the network on Twitter, accusing the cable news network of offering a platform to racists and white supremacists to boost ratings.

Responding to a tweet from Oliver Willis, a writer for the progressive website ShareBlue Media, that called out the network for allowing "abhorrent behavior" under the guise of just "hearing them out," O'Brien said CNN gave "racists/white supremacists" a platform as a "ratings ploy."

"This exactly-they give a platform-and their credibility-to racists/white supremacists/ all in the name of 'hearing them out' (which is a ratings ploy btw)," O'Brien wrote, retweeting comments from Oliver Willis, a senior writer at ShareBlue Media.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Most here on this site will agree.

Same for NBC from time to time.

[gratuitous]

2. That's just so sweet

I guess it doesn't draw ratings to feature people actually trying to cope with this nightmare of an administration. So they have the klansmen divested of their robes. Nice.

[badhair77]

3. I turn them all off.

I don’t need higher blood pressure.

[Sherman A1]

8. A Very Wise Decision

I gave up on them long ago. It's all about filling time with Breathless 24/7 Breaking News Infotainment to fill time between ads for drugs that we never knew we needed.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Of course...ratings and $$$ over country.

[Downtown Hound]

5. Well, it's crap like that that caused me to stop watching them years ago

So the results are not guaranteed.

[world wide wally]

6. I think Jerry Springer used to do that but decided it was in bad taste to give them a platform

[jrthin]

7. We know. We've been watching it in action for years. We (my family)

had to finally stop watching CNN.

[Mr. Ected]

9. Like the famed liberal media that isn't a liberal media at all

CNN as Trump's favorite punching bag isn't exactly the enemy that he portrays them to be.

[UTUSN]

10. Uh, so a different ploy is needed?!1