The CNN-ification of Turner's Upfront Presentation

As chronicled by Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper.

As proof of how this election season has become not just a political, but a cultural touchstone, Turner’s upfront presentation at the Theater at Madison Square Garden was organized around the meta conceit that it was a story being chronicled by Turner-owned CNN.

And for that gag to work, the audience of would-be advertisers had to have more than a passing familiarity with the catch phrases and conventions used by its star hosts. And one long, continuing election, 83

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