# CNN's Chris Cillizza **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731 "2017-04-18T19:07:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731/1 "2017-04-18T19:07:14Z")
Who is this guy? Is he supposed to be someone special? It seems everyday CNN’s web page has something like Cillizza: Clinton has Only Herself to Blame. Sometimes (like today) there are two Cillizza: statements. Who cares what this guy thinks? Is he an authority on everything? Am I supposed to pay special attention because Cillizza says it? If he’s going to express an opinion or editorialize his stuff should be under those headings. As it is, it makes it look like its actual news that he’s speaking about something. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731/2 "2017-04-18T19:13:28Z")
Cillizza has been writing The Washington Posts’s ‘The Fix’ column - and running its team of political writers - for at least 10 years. He’s essentially one of TWP’s primary political correspondents and knows the players and the issues pretty well. Edited to add: This month it appears he switched flags to CNN from TWP. That’s a strong pick up for the network. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731/3 "2017-04-18T19:17:25Z")
[CNN hires Chris Cillizza](http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/03/cnn-hires-chris-cillizza-235990) (3/13/17) > [@](#): > > The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is joining CNN Politics as a reporter and editor at large, with a digital presence and an on-air role. > > **Cillizza is leaving behind the blog known as The Fix he built at the Post over more than a decade.** The Fix has since expanded and now includes a team of bloggers and editors. Cillizza will also be ending his role as a contributor at MSNBC when he joins CNN. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731/4 "2017-04-23T11:47:31Z")
What drives me nuts is that he is getting more visibility around the same time as The New Yorker’s **Ryan Lizza** , another plain-faced dark-haired with small glasses kinda guy. Lizza. Cillizza. Oy. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731/5 "2017-04-23T12:24:12Z")
Cillizza also helped bring the EpiPen pricing controversy out into the public (he has sons which require them) last fall. I checked out of rabid news following a while back for my own sanity so I missed this jump for him but best of luck. Liked his WP stuff and attitude on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-chris-cillizza/784731/6 "2017-04-23T20:41:44Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > What drives me nuts is that he is getting more visibility around the same time as The New Yorker’s **Ryan Lizza** , another plain-faced dark-haired with small glasses kinda guy. > > Lizza. Cillizza. Oy. I distinguish them via my not-particularly-reasonable translation of Chris Cillizza’s name to “Chrysalis Ahhh.” More to the point, Lizza is more of a writers’ writer, doing long-form journalism; Cillizza is more of a talking head.