POYNTER – 20/03/2020
Ren LaForme
If you watched Thursday’s White House coronavirus news conference, you might have wondered who the heck that reporter was who asked President Donald Trump if criticizing his COVID-19 response is equivalent to siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals and Latin gangs and cartels?
That was Chanel Rion, a reporter for the far-right One America News Network, better known as OAN. To call Rion a “reporter” might be a stretch, since she floats conspiracy theories like how the coronavirus was created in a lab in North Carolina. She and OAN also have been at the center of several other controversies that make you wonder how either has a spot in a White House briefing room.