CNN anchor Jake Tapper said former President Trump continues to pose a major challenge to media organizations covering him. “I think that every news organization in America was disrupted by Donald Trump,” Tapper said during an appearance on journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast published Monday. The CNN anchor called Trump’s barbs “relatively tame” compared to his attacks on others. “We have to cover him, we can’t ignore him,” Tapper said of the network’s approach, while maintaining it aims to “cover him as he is.”“Do I think … we were knocked off our equilibrium a little bit [during the Trump years]? Yes, every media organization was, to some degree or another,” Tapper said later of the network under former chief executive Jeff Zucker.

Source: CNN July 10, 2023 16:10 UTC