After all the
fight and fuss CNN put up to defend its decision to produce and broadcast a
feature-length documentary about likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton, CNN has now abandoned the project. The director of the
project, left-wing filmmaker Charles Ferguson, who says he was approached by
CNN, puts most of the blame on Team Clinton's lack of
cooperation:
And then the fun
began. The day after the contract was signed I received a message from Nick
Merrill, Hillary Clinton's press secretary. He already knew about the film, and
clearly had a source within CNN. He interrogated me; at first I answered, but
eventually I stopped. When I requested an off-the-record, private conversation
with Mrs. Clinton, Merrill replied that she was busy writing her book, and not
speaking to the media.....To Read More....
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