CNN packed the room with Trump supporters. This was a demand of Trump’s, and #CNN acceded to it. Potential Trump opponents, like Democrats, were not allowed in.

That is not a “Town Hall,” and it is not a “news event.” Yet look at how Chris Licht justifies it. He pretends that the “media” has been “ignoring that those people exist.”

nytimes.com/2023/05/11/busines

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@JamesGleick Yeah, sometimes it seems like entire days went by when the NYT didn't run a pity-party story about the forgotten white working class gun owning male in flyover country.

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