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We need to talk about CNN humanizing Kellyanne Conway and ignoring San Juan’s victimized mayor
Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz is the real BADASS
We need to talk about CNN’s latest snafu that resembles the networks traditional approach to “playing both sides” when it comes to this abhorrently toxic administration, and how the obsession with the gangster hijacking the White House is no longer a badly hidden secret.
From the moment the studio cameras were glued to Candidate Trump’s jumbo jet, imposingly parked on the tarmac, it was officially love at first sight. CNN made it blatantly obvious that it understood the power of the brand, and how the historic victory of a failed New York businessman turned reality TV star would translate to lucrative non-stop coverage.
Not to mention the propelled career trajectories of overpaid anchors and burgeoning political pundits.
Mainstream media always needed Donald Trump to be as offensively vile as he has proven to be, and the transparency in the pampering of White privilege that’s depicted in the laughable coverage of his staged antics is just some of the ways in which journalism has rotted to the core.
And this brings us to the deplorable act of gross hypocrisy, that is on display through the nauseating video clips…