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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Chris McGreal

CNN’s Trump debacle suggests TV media set to repeat mistakes of 2016

Trump at the CNN town hall on Wednesday night. How should television, in particular, cover Trump as the next election comes into focus?
Donald Trump at the CNN town hall on Wednesday night. How should television, in particular, cover Trump as the next election comes into focus? Photograph: CNN

Donald Trump and CNN were in rare agreement: the former president’s hour of free prime-time television on Wednesday evening, dressed up as a “town hall” with Republican voters, was a triumph.

“America was served very well by what we did last night,” CNN’s chief executive, Chris Licht, told skeptical members of his own staff at the network’s daily news conference the following morning.

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