The former CNN and MSNBC darling is facing spending the rest of his life in prison after being found gulty last week for a wide array of financial crimes, including fraud, embezzlement and extortion.
Last year The Beacon posted the montage of various media outletsm including 'the View' fawning to the point of absurdity over Avenatti, who was so popular with the jet set press comparisons to “the Holy Spirit” were made.
Why was Avenatti so popular? Avenatti was representing porn star Stormy Daniels as she famously pursued legal action against Donald Trump over an affair and subsequent hush-money and cover-up scandals. But in truth, his clients were really #TheResistance at large, and there are no bigger fans of that movement to be found on cable and network news.
Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume shared the Free Beacon’s tweet on Friday, pondering whether the people featured are capable of being embarrassed by it.
How’d you like to be featured in this montage? Are the people in it capable of embarrassment? https://t.co/l5piLPwUEg— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 15, 2020
Pollster and Fox News regular Frank Luntz called out the general media reluctance to admit their gross misjudgment of Avenatti’s character, focusing in particular on Stelter’s newsletter paragraph on the topic.
CNN and MSNBC featured @MichaelAvenatti on their networks a combined 108 times within a 2-month span.— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) February 15, 2020
We need on-air mea culpas, not an email newsletter blaming it on Fox News.
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“CNN and MSNBC featured [Michael Avenatti] on their networks a combined 108 times within a 2-month span,” he wrote. “We need on-air mea culpas, not an email newsletter blaming it on Fox News.”
The Media Research Center determined that Avenatti made a whopping 254 television appearances over the course of a year leading up the extorition charges. He originallyentered the news cycle in early 2018 as the outspoken lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels, who locked horns with President Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen over an affair she claims to have had years ago with Trump.
Avenatti appeared most frequently on CNN, which welcomed him an astonishing 121 times. MSNBC also had a high tally, having him on 108 times. He made 24 appearances on broadcast news; 12 on ABC, seven on CBS and five on NBC. Avenatti appeared on Fox News twice.
Roughly 70 percent of his television appearances took place between March and June of 2018 as his client’s legal battle with the president repeatedly made headlines.
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