{"id":16779,"date":"2017-06-02T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2017-06-02T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T00:08:27","slug":"cnn-fires-kathy-griffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/cnn-fires-kathy-griffin\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Fires Kathy Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Comedienne Kathy Griffin speaks onstage during the 24th Annual Race to Erase MS Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, May 5, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images for Race To Erase MS)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>CNN has fired comedienne Kathy Griffin from their annual New Year\u2019s Eve program, which she co-hosts with anchor Anderson Cooper, after she posed with a photograph showing a bloodied and beheaded President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The 56-year-old actress faced a lot of backlash on social media after she shared the picture, which was a part of her photoshoot with famed photographer Tyler Shields, on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>She later apologized by posting a 31-second video message, where she admitted that she went \u201ctoo far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just now seeing the reaction on these images&#8230; The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people, it wasn\u2019t funny, I get it&#8230; I am sorry. I went too far. I was wrong,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But that did not stop the network from terminating Griffin\u2019s decade-long contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our New Year\u2019s Eve program,\u201d the CNN Public Relations account tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also tweeted about the photo early May 31, writing that Griffin \u201cshould be ashamed of herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy children, especially my 11-year-old son Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#KathyGriffin @KathyGriffin #CNN #DonaldTrump \u2013 CNN has fired comedienne Kathy Griffin from their annual New Year\u2019s Eve program, which she co-hosts with anchor Anderson Cooper, after she posed with a photograph showing a bloodied and beheaded President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3321,2382,139,3320,147],"class_list":["post-16779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-kathy-griffin","tag-siliconeer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}