![]() ![]() ![]() All he had gotten from Trump was a compliment on OAN’s graphics. But when he returned to the network headquarters, in San Diego, he was glum, according to multiple employees present at the time. In late 2018, Herring attempted to right this wrong by meeting with Trump and administration officials in DC. ICYMI: Andy Lack and MSNBC’s identity crises “For us, it was difficult to get interviews with Ben Carson,” a former OAN producer told me. Until recently, the big interviews with Trump and top cabinet officials were given to Fox and, every once in a while, CBS and NBC. Since he took office, the channel’s programming has consisted of incessant and uncritical coverage of the president and his policies. In 2016, it devotedly carried Trump’s rallies in full. įrom the moment in 2015 that Trump announced his run for the White House, OAN, sometimes called OANN, has worked aggressively to curry favor. He’d purchased hydroxychloroquine himself, he added, and was grateful to Trump for leading by example. The drug has “ proven to be miraculous ,” Robert Herring, OAN’s owner and chief executive, said, falsely, on an OAN broadcast in May. Since then, the network has supported the president’s claim that hydroxychloroquine, a controversial and potentially dangerous drug, is a cure for the novel coronavirus. In April the small, right-wing national cable network made headlines when Chanel Rion, its White House correspondent, was banned from the briefing room by the White House Correspondents’ Association for ignoring social-distancing regulations. One America News Network is having a moment.
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