You know them: cockwomble Chris Cuomo, blowhard Don Lemon, lumbering harpy Candy Crowley — a parade of television solemnity occasionally interrupted by journalism. I spent enough of my career pulling leeches off myself in Nicaragua to admit I have an old-school correspondent's prejudice against television interviews conducted in hermetically controlled studios.
You know them: cockwomble Chris Cuomo, blowhard Don Lemon, lumbering harpy Candy Crowley — a parade of television solemnity occasionally interrupted by journalism.
I spent enough of my career pulling leeches off myself in Nicaragua to admit I have an old-school correspondent's prejudice against television interviews conducted in hermetically controlled studios.
Few CNN creatures trigger my counter-alimentation reflex faster than Brian Stelter, whose talent for institutional obsequiousness survived even the departure of his long-cashiered former boss, Jeff "Mother"...
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You know them: cockwomble Chris Cuomo, blowhard Don Lemon, lumbering harpy Candy Crowley — a parade of television solemnity occasionally interrupted by journalism. I spent enough of my career pulling leeches off myself in Nicaragua to admit I have an old-school correspondent's prejudice against television interviews conducted in hermetically controlled studios. Few CNN creatures trigger my counter-alimentation reflex faster than Brian Stelter, whose talent for institutional obsequiousness survived even the departure of his long-cashiered former boss, Jeff "Mother" Zucker.
His latest exercise in reliability is a defense of NBC's Kristen Welker after she characterized Donald Trump's primary election endorsements as producing "mixed results." The figures at issue were 100% of his endorsed Senate candidates winning and 98% of his other endorsed candidates winning.
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