{"id":18118,"date":"2018-10-12T03:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2018-10-12T03:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:24:39","slug":"bloomberg-employees-protest-steve-bannon-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18118","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg employees protest Steve Bannon interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>A group of Bloomberg employees have expressed outrage over the news organization&#8217;s invitation to an onstage interview with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a strongly-worded letter signed by 91 staffers and delivered last Friday to Bloomberg&#8217;s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, Bannon was criticized for &#8220;inflict[ing] harm to our communities \u2014 specifically targeting women, black and Muslim populations, with his tenure at Breitbart and strategies of the Trump presidential campaign.&#8221; The signatories asked the editorial team to rescind Bannon&#8217;s invitation to this week&#8217;s Bloomberg Invest Summit.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Despite their efforts, however, the show went on, and Bannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-10\/bannon-lauds-orban-as-heroic-says-euro-should-be-abandoned\" target=\"_blank\">sat down with Micklethwait on Wednesday<\/a> in London for an interview on the topic of &#8220;Populism, Protectionism and Economic Nationalism&#8217;s Impact on the Markets.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)A group of Bloomberg employees have expressed outrage over the news organization&#8217;s invitation to an onstage interview with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. In a strongly-worded letter signed by 91 staffers and delivered last Friday to Bloomberg&#8217;s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, Bannon was criticized for &#8220;inflict[ing] harm to our communities \u2014 specifically&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}