As Twitchy reported earlier Tuesday, CNN has been presented with a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism for its Parkland show trial, hastily put on air just a week after the mass shooting and well before most of the facts were in, such as the whereabouts of the school resource officer who was charged with protecting the students.
The town hall did make stars of some of the students selected to speak, such as Emma Gonzales, but there’s another Parkland survivor who isn’t thrilled to see CNN get an award for a town hall that really, really needs a serious follow-up knowing what we do now a year later.
Using our community’s pain for ratings, a week after 17 students and teachers were killed, gets an award?
That town hall was a shameful display. Disgusting. https://t.co/2yj7xiK2XG
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 19, 2019
Hey CNN, does this matter to you at all? Or are you too busy popping champagne bottles (and unfollowing Dana Loesch, who exposed how the whole thing was put together like a WWE event meant to stoke the already hostile crowd. Plug those ears, Jake Tapper.)
We remember at the time how unseemly it appeared that CNN threw together a town hall just a week after the shooting, and Kashuv just confirmed our gut feeling.
And remember how CNN rushed to put together a town hall following the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas just a month later? Yeah, we don’t either.
Show trials FTW!!!
— Big Billy (@BaseballPled) March 19, 2019
Yeah, but it was a Cronkite award, so …. fitting, no?
— insureblog (@insureblog) March 19, 2019
Cronkite was a huge progressive, that only let it be known after he had retired…
— Don Sansone (@DonSansone) March 19, 2019
Credit to Cronkite for keeping his political views off the air until he retired; we’re old enough to remember respecting him as an anchor. (We kind of felt the same way about Jake Tapper, until today.)
People would do anything for recognition
— A College Freshman (@1449kinetic) March 19, 2019
Here’s a sympathetic voice who cares about all the Parkland survivors:
you seem nice.
— Elizabeth (@emac82467) March 19, 2019
you going to see Trump was shameful and disgusting.
— Elizabeth (@emac82467) March 19, 2019
Yeah, that was shameful of Kashuv to show off around D.C. his “ReachOut” app, which would allow students to provide each other with emotional support and help them recognize and report warning signs.
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Update:
If anyone deserves an award its @DLoesch for her fortitude. She was respectful and poised and in a sea of high emotions and horrible moderators.
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 19, 2019
Agreed.
Related:
'They're proud of it'? Dana Loesch is absolutely right to be disgusted by CNN being 'honored' with this award https://t.co/rr1Jt0yeS3
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 19, 2019
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