Hollywood Reporter: When it comes to politicians trampling free speech and
free press, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said Tuesday that he doesn’t
fear president-elect Donald Trump as much as he does his rivals on the
other side of the aisle.
“The threat to the First Amendment came from the Democratic side,”
Bewkes said during a conversation with Business Insider CEO Henry
Blodget at a conference in New York in a session that was webcast.
Bewkes made the comment after Blodget noted that Trump had criticized
CNN for allegedly unfair coverage, and even threatened some sort of
regulation in retaliation against CNN, owned by Time Warner.
“The threat to the First Amendment came from the Democratic side
more,” he says, arguing that journalists viewed a Democratic plank
“overly charitably” as campaign finance reform.
“I don’t think that’s a serious thing,” Bewkes told Blodget at the
Ignition: Future of Digital conference. “If anybody is going to change
the First Amendment — remember, the Democratic party had a campaign
plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise
of campaign finance reform.”[…]
Bewkes wasn’t specific, though Trump’s Democratic challenger Hillary
Clinton promised many times to overturn the Citizens United Supreme
Court decision that allowed the conservative group to promote its
anti-Hillary movie. The decision gave corporations rights, similar to
those of unions and individuals, to fund political speech.
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