For some reason that I'm not sure even they could explain, CNN decided to air an interview.
If you can stomach it, take a look 👇
Yes, that's "senior correspondent" Donie O'Sullivan talking and laughing with former Washington Post reporter-turned-independent activist Taylor Lorenz about the fangirls of Luigi Mangione, the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare's CEO.
It doesn't matter if CNN is a shell of its former self. It doesn't matter if fewer people watch Donie O'Sullivan interviews than Leave it to Beaver reruns. It doesn't matter if Taylor Lorenz is suffering with some sort of mental disorder and so rational people already tune out her manic behavior.
"What the media gets wrong about people who love an assassin": This isn't a story that a credible news organization would run in the first place.
Everyday millions of Americans sacrifice their time, money, and energies to care for an ailing loved one, to serve at a soup kitchen, to visit nursing home patients who don't have family of their own, to care for the less fortunate, to make some lonely person's day better.
But instead of highlighting beneficial, uplifting, inspiring people, CNN trots out a mentally unhinged, self-proclaimed "online expert" who can't stop giggling and blushing about the "handsome" and "morally good man" who, you know, is accused of shooting a loving father in the back as he walked into work?
It's not like CNN didn't know what they were getting. The day Mangione gunned down healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood, Lorenz was on X posting this:
This isn't normal behavior. It's antisocial bordering on psychotic. Playing footsie with it, as CNN's "senior correspondent" does here (guffawing that, "Aw shucks, the ladies even like assassins more than me"), should cost Donie O'Sullivan his reputation, and would, in a sane world, cost him his job.
There are reasons that respectable news organizations typically band together after a mass shooting and refuse to use the alleged assailant's name. Along with denying the madman the attention and notoriety he craves, they realize that there is a small-but-deranged sector of our population that finds itself infatuated with evil. They are drawn to it, attracted to it, enamored by it, and in some cases, inspired by it.
When doing news stories on Ted Bundy, you interview the family of victims, not the crazy woman who wants to have his babies.
Either that common sense has eluded CNN, or they are evil fangirls themselves.
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