Murphy Brown creator: How Trump inspired this week's "Beat the Press" episode

Variety

"It was something that we planned to do from the beginning when we first went into the writers’ room in May because of the angry rhetoric that was being directed toward the press, which I found shocking,” says Diane English of last night's episode, featuring real footage of a Trump rally, which was in response to the president's hostility to the media. “Then it escalated from there as we saw journalists get body-slammed by a politician and we saw the president, at his rallies, encouraging all of this vitriol against the press and CNN in particular — and even very recently saying that he would admire somebody that would body-slam a journalist.”