RD Recap: CNN Recruits Former Trump Campaign Manager; The Hill Taps Departed Mashable Exec

This... is the way the cable TV news business has long worked.

Corey Lewandowski, last seen as Donald Trump‘s campaign manager, lands a political commentator gig at CNN. “I’m a guy who calls balls and strikes. I’m going to tell it like it is… There is nothing that’s going to stop me from telling the truth, in my opinion,” he said. The move shocked many in the media world, considering Lewandowski’s adversarial relationship with the press, but perhaps it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Your money quote, courtesy of Jack Shafer: “You can’t argue that he should be denied a tryout just because he appears to hate journalists and journalism with every fiber of his being.

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