Hello, Anderson. We’ve never spoken before, but I happened to catch the below:
Let’s talk about silos, Anderson. Let’s talk about your extremely insulated media silo, where you sit behind a desk and gossip nightly with Maggie Haberman, a cynical access journalist who provides you just enough juicy content to fill the A-block, but not enough to ever cut off her business relationship with that wheezing, deflating orange balloon that somehow was permitted to sit behind the Resolute Desk as though it were a real boy.
I suspect it’s lonely there at the top, Anderson. As someone who has worked in major newsrooms, I understand the busy life of an on-air talent. Production meetings, editing copy, hair and makeup, the occasional remote or celebrity interview. Fun TikToks! I’m sure through all this you maintain a close-knit group of confidants. A silo, if you will.
It’s easy in a silo like yours to rationalize what you’re all doing is The Right Thing; that it’s merely us rabble in the streets or the deeply uniformed daring to question your organization’s motives or journalistic integrity.
I suppose your network is not bothering to go too deeply into the many documented cases of FBI and police instigating violence instead of BLM is so you could have endless segments about how “DEFUNDING THE POLICE” as a political slogan (that few used) cost the Democrats a midterm election.
I mean, I can’t get enough of your network’s coverage of broken windows and looted stores, when employer wage theft titanically dwarfs any such incidents. Is that information outside your precious silo, Anderson? Golly, it can’t possibly have been because wage theft has been woefully underreported in your broadcast, can it?
Hmm, silo boy?
Why are so many Americans walking around with so much bad information, Anderson? Is it because they’re not watching your broadcast? Or because they are?
Let me do a reality set — you failed your viewers, and your accusation that these very viewers you let down are the wayward ones here for turning your channel off is obscene.
Anderson, keeping your network on my screen another second is an even worse obscenity. I’ve watched as you regularly platformed reprehensible “analysts” like Jason Miller, Rick Santorum, Jeffrey Lord (I legit forgot that one), all the while telling your viewers this was in service of “balance.”
Uh huh. Do you think any of us buy that utter bullshit, Anderson? You don’t think we watched you and your “righteous” colleagues dunk on these slow-witted, broken-record sparring partners night after night? You’re telling me I was supposed to be getting information from all of this? From liars shouting over shills?
Gimme a fucking break.
Your old boss and pal Jeff Zucker is the silo’d showbiz businessman that got us into this mess in the first place. He didn't mind that the deflating orange balloon was a fraud, he put this beast on prime-time TV and sold all-too-thirsty advertisers the rapt eyeballs of viewers fooled into thinking they were watching a legitimate businessman and not, say, a circus.
When the deflating orange balloon ran for president, the fun and games just rolled on, amIright? Gotta edge out the competition in that A-block key demo. Not an empty podium was spared it’s own dedicated live shot as the “heroes” on your network wrung their hands even as they made themselves part of the news.
Gosh, how will all of us here denied CNN going forward get our information on climate change, the most important issue facing life on Earth? Oh wait, we did get “climate” coverage in your network’s endless joking about a doctored hurricane map (which was a story, sure — but consider the weight).
But no, do go on and give more time to a disgraced pol who has shit the bed in three-straight national elections and just this week was found liable by a jury of his peers for sexual abuse and defamation.
Anderson, come with me and peek above the lid of your silo for a moment. Your colleagues are trapped in an endless loop of play-acting the news, a sort of Cargo Cult Newsroom. It looks like a newsroom. It sounds like a newsroom. It is not a newsroom.
Breaking news, CNN: You report the news, you don’t set out to make it.
You clowns think it’s just another night at the office, just another meaningless broadcast and another couple zero’s in the bank account. You happily welcomed a bigoted, xenophobic piece of shit who's shown zero self-control and a desire for violence from his followers. How do I know this? YOU’VE BEEN REPORTING ON THIS DUDE NON-STOP FOR SIX FUCKING YEARS NOW, YOU UNBELIEVABLE TWIT!
Anderson, you suggest by turning off CNN, viewers will only listen to what they want to hear. And you know what, that’s right.
Do you want to know what I want to hear, silo boy? I want to listen to someone who fucking gets it. And you dopes don’t.
My advice? Resign. Run from that silo, pal.
Thanks for listening, and once more — kindly go fuck yourself for that obscene shit you just said to your viewers.
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Also see SemDem with Biden's CNN Town Hall ratings smashed Trump's-- and he didn't demand a sycophantic audience