In a special second hour of his show Wednesday night, NewsNation host Chris Cuomo divulged to viewers that the growing, independent network had been dropped by the predominant cable and internet provider in the greater New York City area, Altice (formerly known as Cablevision), and called it a “suspicious” “situation” and episode in a trend of “censorship.” Cuomo first indirectly alluded to this during a segment with Alan Dershowitz about TikTok’s possible shuttering in the United States (as its Chinese Communist Party-linked parent company ByteDance has refused to sell it). He said he’s broadly “worried about censorship” and he’s “seeing it more and more.”     “[T]here’s a situation right now, okay, that is really suspicious to me. Alright, We, right now NewsNation is in a battle to stay on a cable system that is French-owned, okay? And I have no idea what good reason they would have for coming after NewsNation, which they did on their own accord, unprovoked, except one, there’s something about what NewsNation does,” he added. Cuomo wondered if they might “have a political disposition that they feel we’re balancing” in its sadly novel concept of respecting the views of all Americans. He then speculated about ratings: [F]or whatever reason, right now, they’re saying that NewsNation, nobody cares about it, we’re not going to run it and it reeks of having some type of bias and this type of ability to control what the American people can have access to is really worrying to me. I don’t speak for NewsNation. I don’t speak for the bosses. I’m speaking for Chris Cuomo, and I’m saying professor. It is very suspicious to me, why NewsNation, all the other outlets? Why don’t you want us? I think it’s happening more and more. As a cable provider, Altice has almost certainly struggled to maintain subscribers as more and more Americans cut the cord. That said, their moves have been rake-steppers by axing NewsNation, the New York City TV market’s CW affiliate, PIX-11, and MSG Networks, the homes of the New York Islanders, Knicks, Liberty, Rangers, and the Buffalo Sabers and New Jersey Devils. Later going to break, Cuomo invited viewers to search out information about what he was alluding to, adding:     I want to preserve my sus — my — my disbelief, okay? I want to wait and see because I’m telling you, I think more and more moneyed interests are playing with what you get to see and that’s what NewsNation was created to counter, okay? That’s all I’ll say right now. A caller named Charlie at the end of the show shared he was “a fellow cable executive” in Atlanta, Georgia and said Cuomo has “to tell all your viewers, you need to burn up the phones and tell them, this is a great show, this is a great network to have on” as support for NewsNation executives in the negotiating process. The caller disagreed with the notion of censorship, so Cuomo countered with a simple question: “But why go after NewsNation?”     Charlie later doubled down on his advice as well as giving a strong testimony of support to the network’s mission (click “expand”): CHARLIE IN ATLANTA: Chris, what I can tell you is this, I stopped watching cable news years ago, and I found you, and I found NewsNation, and I was a Wall Street-only guy, and I got to tell you, Wall Street reader, and you have brought me back to the network. You brought me back to watching cable news again, so they need to wake up, and people need to really get active about this. You’re a great voice. I appreciate what you do, and it’s fantastic to see you take a stand on this, and I really support it and people need to burn up the phones. It matters to them when you tie up their phones, when you’re calling them and saying, “keep this network on and do it.” So I’m going to reiterate your call. I love what you’re saying, and it’s really important.  CUOMO: Well — CHARLIE IN ATLANTA: You know, here’s a guy who has Bill O’Reilly on with Stephen A. Smith. CUOMO: — right? CHARLIE IN ATLANTA: Stephen A. Smith, I don’t watch in sports because he’s the mad guy. But you know what? Tonight, your deal with — with Bill O’Reilly and Stephen A Smith? Brilliant. Before kicking to Banfield, Cuomo concurred and said everyone must do more “to bring people together” and “have the conversation because, when we stay apart, it — it’s all animus, all the time.” Back on January 24, 2023, DirecTV dropped our friends at Newsmax and, thanks to months of loud, public pressure, DirecTV reached a new agreement on March 22, 2023. Hopefully Altice comes to its senses and brings back NewsNation as they, along with Fox Business, Fox News Channel, and Newsmax, are the only news networks with widespread cable distribution that don’t hue to the tiresome corporate, leftist worldview. To see the relevant NewsNation transcript from January 15, click here.

The six-person jury for the $1 billion defamation suit against CNN heard closing arguments on Thursday and started their deliberations. Both parties urged the jury to use their “common sense” to see them through deliberations and secure them the legal victory. But it was the argument of Vel Freedman, the lead counsel for Navy veteran and Plaintiff Zachary Young, who called on the jury, “Your verdict will stand in history” and to use the opportunity to “Stand up against fake news.” Before the parties made their final pitch to the jury, they needed to be read the jury instructions. Noting that they should be viewing the evidence as an average person, Judge William Henry of the 14 Circuit Court in Bay County, Florida listed the issues the jury had the responsibility to determine: If CNN had published what was being viewed. If said material was "of and concerning" Young. If the materials published were false. If the material was defamatory. If CNN was negligent at the very least. If Young sustained damages from the material With that out of the way, Freedman argued that in the opening statement from CNN’s lead counsel David Axelrod he told them that every word in CNN's report was "true” and now they were able to see for themselves. He called out how every CNN witness used the same false definition for "black market," claiming the definition was an “unregulated market.” He call that evidence of a “conspiracy” at CNN to get them on the same page, pointing to the fact that CNN did not produce dictionaries with that definition (a CNN employee also testified that they did not have a preferred dictionary).     Further he pointed out that no witness from CNN testified that they were sorry; worse yet, each one testified that they didn’t like the apology CNN aired and seemed resentful of their legal department. In fact, CNN’s VP for newsgathering Adam Levine testified that the apology was only issued as an attempt to head off the lawsuit. That comment prompted a juror question that called it a “disingenuous apology.” Freedman told the jury that, "Your verdict will stand in history” and called on them to “Stand up against fake news.” “Make the phone ring in Georgia. Send a message [to CNN]," he concluded. For his argument, Axelrod made “use your common sense” his catchphrase for the duration but there wasn’t much of it in his argument. He argued that Young could have called on any of his former contacts to testify that they don’t want to associate with him because of the CNN report. But why would they help him if they don’t want to associate with him? Axelrod argued that they could have subpoenaed them. Freedman countered with the fact CNN didn’t subpoena them either. It was the same back and forth argument for why each didn’t bring in Young’s psychologist from Austria. That was part of Axelrod’s dismissal of Young's mental health woes and claim that Young was "malingering." Freedman countered by noting that CNN didn’t product their own mental health expert, only their lawyer. Probably the most telling part of the closing argument that may have betrayed a concern for the ruling, Axelrod apologized to the jury for being annoying or rubbing them the wrong way, and asked them not to "take it out" on CNN. As off the positing of this piece, the jury is almost 4 hours into deliberation.

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