CNN might be funnier than the late night comedy shows, albeit unintentionally. During CNN Newsroom’s Saturday pregame show ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, media analyst Sara Fischer claimed that freedom of the press has become increasingly politicized. Her first example was to claim that funding PBS and NPR is an “investment in the free press,” but that has now become “a political issue.”
Host Jessica Dean began the lamentations by declaring, “Everything is politicized these days. That’s kind of the world we live in right now and it was no different. There was a comedian scheduled to perform tonight. Then they canceled that. Now it’s the more, as you’re noting, kind of somber tone.”
One could argue that the Correspondents’ Association originally inviting a comedian who called the administration a “bunch of…
