Time Warner CEO: Trump isn’t serious about redefining First Amendment

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who counts CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. and TBS among the media companies in his portfolio, says that President-Elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises to redefine the First Amendment and “open up the libel laws” are not likely to happen when he takes office.

“No, I don’t think that’s a serious thing. We should all worry if anybody was going to change the First Amendment,” Bewkes said. “Remember, the Democratic party had a campaign plan to change the First Amendment, but they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform,” Bewkes added. “That would worry me more, because the press tends to miss that, because they tend to lean that way, therefore they supported what they were doing, and I think though they viewed it charitably as something cleaning up money in politics. I think the threat to the First Amendment came more from the Democratic side.”