Stelter: We Don’t See CNN or New York Times ‘Rooting for Any President’

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STELTER: "We've seen this administration stacking the deck with friendlier news outlets when I say friendlier, news out lets that have a point of view, rooting for the president. CNN we don't root for any president, but the breitbarts of the world do root for the candidates and presidents, there's not necessarily anything wrong, but we've seen them taking questions from friendlier out lets and that's a way to stack the deck. One invited to the briefing, CNN right now has about a millionpeople watching sometimes more, sometimes less. OAN is so small it doesn't have Nielsen ratings and yet the Trump Administration is giving it access, when you talk about the CNN's of the world you might think they're unfair, but they're among the biggest news out lets in country, all administrations bush, Clinton Obama would allow that access that cover every White House, that's why we didn't see President Bush or before him president H.W. Bush or Reagan, that's the challenge here. We're seeing a norm not among Democrats or Republicans. This is bipartisan in the past fair treatment of a variety of news organizations and president Trump is challenging that by blocking these news outlets today."