Brooke Baldwin, a former anchor with CNN, has gone after her former employer via an op-ed that was recently published in The Atlantic. IN which she claimed that they ignored a chance for a live interview from a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School directly in the wake of the tragic event that happened on the school grounds back in 2018 so that the extreme-left could continue their continuous coverage of Trump News.
“One of my producers interrupted our broadcast from Florida and spoke into my earpiece. News was breaking about President Donald Trump and the FBI. My producer assured me that we’d return to coverage in Parkland, but that right then—I’ll never forget it—’we have to break away to go live to Washington’,” stated Baldwin. “But. But. But. Fourteen students were dead. I stood there dumbfounded. A teacher from the school was just out of camera range, waiting to join me for a five-minute live interview. I used the pause in coverage to tell her what was happening and told her that we’d get to her, that her story mattered. But I already knew then that they weren’t coming back to us.”
“Outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I waited to reappear on my own show, furiously emailing my producers back at CNN headquarters to fight for more airtime on what was happening at Parkland: Come back to me. The teacher!” she went on. “Soon after, I got my marching orders: Come back to New York. I knew what that meant. We were done.”
Baldwin fired shots at the network as she left their employ last year by making the suggestion that the network was rife with sexism, claiming that the entirety of the highest-paid staff at the outlet and every single one of her bosses was men. “So I’ve been surrounded by a lot of men,” she stated. “I was surrounded by a lot of dudes.”
Historically, Baldwin has been a vocal anti-Second Amendment activist and has made ample use of deceptive tactics to further her own agenda.
In the wake of the Colorado school shooting back in 2019 that left one dead and many injured, Baldwin ran a segment that filled with overtly deceptive statistics and gave no source at all for the information.
The video, which was just over three minutes in length, highlighted the following numbers as they showed up on screen while Baldwin sat silently staring into the camera:
- “35 U.S. School Shootings Since The Fall”
- “336 School Shootings Since 2008”
- “373,663 Killed By Gun Violence From 2007-2017”
The video then went on to state: “If words aren’t changing anything, then what about these images?”
CNN then quickly cut to images of mothers and children crying. “Parents waiting to hear their child’s name called… or not,” while the graphics continued plat. “Children with their hands up… at school. Or clenched… to pray.”
“If this isn’t a crisis now… when will it be?” stated the graphic in conclusion. “ENOUGH.”
Every single one of the statistics shown in the Baldwin presentation was deceptive in nature or just outright false. She has historically combined these misleading stats along with horrible images to try and emotionally manipulate her audience.