{"id":26713,"date":"2020-09-01T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=26713"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T17:31:12","slug":"trump-tweets-good-luck-message-eve-news-nation-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/09\/01\/trump-tweets-good-luck-message-eve-news-nation-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tweets 'good luck' message on eve of 'News Nation' launch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> President Donald Trump tweet<\/p><\/div>\n

Hours before tonight\u2019s debut of a three-hour primetime national newscast<\/a> from Chicago that promises to be free of political bias, \u201cNews Nation\u201d has received an unsolicited blessing from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood luck to Sean Compton, a winner at everything he does!\u201d Trump tweeted at 9:02 a.m. Tuesday over a link to Stephen Battaglio\u2019s story Monday in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0raising the curtain on \u201cNews Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Airing from 7 to 10 p.m. seven nights a week, \"News Nation\" launches tonight on the WGN America<\/a> cable network.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and Sean Compton<\/p><\/div>\n

Compton, the Nexstar Media Group executive vice president in charge of the news startup, has been friends with Trump for more than 15 years. During Trump\u2019s years on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Apprentice,\u201d Compton produced a nationally syndicated radio commentary segment for the reality TV star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t made a big deal about it when I\u2019ve talked to him because he\u2019s probably not going to like it every night,\u201d Compton told<\/a> Battaglio of the \"News Nation\" project.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the story Compton was quoted as saying: \u201cSean Hannity is not news. He\u2019s a friend of mine. I worked with him in radio for years. He\u2019d get mad at me for saying that, but it\u2019s true. Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon \u2014 that\u2019s not news.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Nexstar spokesman declined to comment on Trump\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n

Under the direction of Jennifer Lyons, vice president of news for WGN America, the company has hired 150 people for the $20 million startup at WGN studios on the North Side.<\/p>\n

To monitor the product for any signs of bias, Lyons has designated two producers to scrutinize the language used in every story. In addition, Battaglio reported, a team of rhetoricians \u2014 made up of media consultants and academics \u2014 will deliver a report on how the program fared each night to Lyons\u2019 desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hours before tonight\u2019s debut of a three-hour primetime national newscast from Chicago that promises to be free of political bias, \u201cNews Nation\u201d has received an unsolicited blessing from President Donald Trump. \u201cGood luck to Sean Compton, a winner at everything he does!\u201d Trump tweeted at 9:02 a.m. Tuesday over a link to Stephen Battaglio\u2019s story... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26722,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions\/26722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}