Standing Ovation For CNN's Chirs Cillizza

Today, Chris Cillizza, an analyst at CNN, criticized President Trump's tweets in which he applauds himself for having standing ovations in this very sarcastic article.

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In all honesty, the article was a bit funny, but there's one issue I have with the presentation of this incredibly sarcastic, Trump-mocking article. It was listed under "Latest News" in CNN's right hand navigation bar of their CNN Politics page.
The above photo is a screen shot from CNN

I have no problem with an opinion piece, but as I have pointed out in other blog posts, I do not like people being enticed into an opinion piece under the false belief of objective news.

This article is kind of funny, but for a less digital literate and/or gullible individual, they very well could read this bias article taking it as legitimate news that other people and news sources believe. Additionally, it gives them this one skewed viewpoint (as true or hilarious as it might be) which is very unfair. 

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