Uncomfortable Questions about Brian Stelter

In response to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whxvc2ezGpM
This has not been a normal week, so this is not a normal article. But Brian Stelter’s actions and statements following Charlottesville are provoking some uncomfortable conversations, mostly off the air, to be honest. In discussions between friends and family, and debates of social media, people are questioning the CNN anchor’s fitness. But these conversations are happening in businesses and news outlets as well, usually after business has closed following a hard day’s work, after the store has closed, or after the paper has been put to bed, people’s concerns, fears and questions come out. Questions that often feel out of bounds, off limits, too hot for TV. Questions like these: Is Brian Stelter a pedophile? Is he suffering from some kind of illness? Is he fit for his job? And if he’s unfit, then what?
These are upsetting, polarizing questions that are uncomfortable to ask, but we in the United State of America can’t pretend like our families and friends aren’t asking. They are asking. This is how deep our country’s divide is.
My impression is that since President Trump’s inauguration, there been a lot of tip toeing going on. Brian Stelter’s actions have been described as unhinged, detached from reality, or sometimes even crazy. Now that word crazy can be described in many different ways. It gets said in private a lot more than on TV. For example this quote was never meant to be heard on TV at all. Last month, random U.S. citizen John Brown was heard saying that Brian Stelter’s outrageous statements on CNN were incredibly irresponsible. Brown’s friend responded by saying that he thinks Stelter is, well, crazy.
This week, more and more random citizens of the United States have been questioning Brian’s stability. Many people are going even farther. Some are asking if Stelter has early stage dementia, and want a medical, mental exam conducted. Others are asking from Stelter’s removal from the network, stating the employment-at-will doctrine. Even more, some are stating that he should just resign. We are also hearing this from corners of the conservative news media, and in the entertainment world. You saw many conservative journalists be very serious this week, Mark Levin asked “Can this guy be that dumb?” and he meant what he said.
Now if you’ve picked up your Sunday paper you’ve seen that the papers are filled with cries for change. One media source said “Enough is Enough: Stelter is a danger the Constitution, and a threat to the media ecosystem”
All this brings me back to those questions that are tough to ask out loud on national television, or in an article. Is Brian Stelter suffering from some sort of illness? More importantly, is he a pedophile? Is he fit to hold a real job in the media? And one more, is it time for objective journalists, and I don’t mean opinion folks like Stelter, I mean down the middle journalists to address these questions head on? And if so, how in the world do they do that?
I would recommend a special counsel be appointed to investigate Brian Stelter’s possible crimes of pedophilia. He has not denounced pedophilia or pedophiles recently, or strongly enough for my, or quite frankly, much of the general public’s liking. I would also ask for a medical mental exam to ensure that he is mentally well enough to live responsibly on his own. Coming from my position of moral authority in the media, I deem it important, no, necessary, that Stelter be checked out thoroughly by as many potential examinations as necessary to be certain that Stelter isn’t a danger to himself, others, or the country as a whole.
