The following article by Oliver Willis was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 27, 2018:
Trump and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones are both smearing CNN this week and pushing a fake story that conservatives are being ‘silenced.’
Less than 48 hours after Trump banned a CNN reporter from covering a White House event just for asking a question, his ally and informal adviser Alex Jones joined him in attacking the news network.
On Wednesday, after CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Trump a series of questions during a press availability, Trump’s new deputy communications director Bill Shine personally banned Collins from covering another supposedly open press event later that day.
Taking his cue from the administration’s hostility to the free press — Trump prefers sycophantic outlets like Fox News — Jones followed suit with his own attacks on CNN.