Juvenile Journalism

I must admit....I've reached a level with watching CNN now....that 15 minutes is typically all I can stand before I hit mute.  If they leave Trump-news and do some worldwide 'minute', I'll flip it back on. 

So in the morning....they had their day-program on with John Berman and Alisyn Camerota. 

They wanted to hype a CNN slant on the Turkish invasion into Syria deal, and go bitter negative on Trump.  So they pull up the letter that Trump sent to Erdogan (the leader of Turkey).

They pull points off, in what you'd typically call Trump-language, which is blunt-talk....the stuff you'd hear on a street in NY City.  It's what regular people would say. 

Berlin turns to CNN correspondent and says basically: "We have this letter with this language that isn't exactly at Ph.D. level."

At that point, I hit the mute button.

What kind of journalist says something like that?  An intellectual type.  But then you kinda wonder....is Berman a PhD type?  Well....no.  Is Camerota a PhD type?  No.  I would imagine the White Correspondent was also a non-PhD type.

So you got CNN's 'best' telling you that whenever something is written to any leader, it needs to be in PhD-speak?  Amusingly enough....yes.

When the CNN team addresses the President at some press conference....do they speak with respect and PhD-speak?  Well....no. 

I'm guessing Berman sits around and collects this Trump themes, and just throws two or three out each day....to get his points, and show his loyalty to the network.

But behind all of this....it just makes CNN look like a bunch of juvenile high school kids.  Why would you watch something like this?