“Commandeered� CNN, MSNBC unrepentant for Avenatti promotion
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 4:41 pm on May 24, 2019
Did Michael Avenatti “commandeer†CNN and MSNBC for months? Erik Wemple has gotten a lot of grief over this tweet, which insinuates that the two cable giants had a passive role in BastaMan’s political ascendancy.
That’s unfortunate, because Wemple’s analysis hits harder than his quip on Twitter suggests. Wemple writes that “there’s a lot to discuss when it comes to Avenatti†regarding CNN and MSNBC specifically, which promoted hundreds of hours of Avenatti appearances before prosecutors caught up with him. Over the period of one year, Avenatti made 254 appearances on cable-TV outlets, all but 25 of which were split between CNN (121) and MSNBC (108). In other words, Avenatti averaged one appearance on cable TV news outlets each weekday for a full year, and two per week or more on CNN and MSNBC each. Some of their own on-air talent don’t get on the air that much.
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