CNN has defended itself from criticism over the excessive Donald Trump coverage by saying there’s “nothing unusual” about the number of interviews and segments its dedicated to the real estate mogul.
“He is the front-runner,” Jake Tapper, who will host the second Republican debate on Wednesday, told Huffington Post in response to the backlash — even from voices within the network’s own ranks.
“If anything, the question should be why is Hillary Clinton, or other candidates, why are they not doing as many interviews as Donald Trump?” Tapper continued.
As TheWrap reported on Thursday, multiple network staffers voiced their concerns to CNN president Jeff Zucker about saturation coverage of the GOP front-runner; one pointed to the network bumping an Anderson Cooper special on the decade anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.