This story has been updated.
On Tuesday, CNN’s Chris Cillizza introduced himself on Reddit and asked users to start sending in their questions.
Hi everyone, I’m Chris Cillizza, editor at large for CNN Politics. I haven’t been here long – but I’ve been covering politics forever, mostly at The Washington Post and before that at Roll Call. At the Post, I started their politics blog, The Fix, which they still use. Here at CNN, we recently launched The Point with Chris Cillizza, a multiplatform brand that helps you cut through the crap. Check it out here. I like the Internet and I like politics. I also like pro wrestling. And Dawson’s Creek. And the Washington Nationals.
And oh, the questions.
Journalists have done AMAs (short for “Ask Me Anything”) on Reddit before. They can show a side the public doesn’t often get to see. They can be a platform for testing ideas. They can dig deep into the news. Or, as with Cillizza’s, they can be pretty brutal.
Here’s a sampling:
There are more than 800 comments and growing. Cillizza is answering some of them.
Cillizza was a good sport about the whole thing. Here’s what he tweeted after we published this story.
I thought it went great. People have the right to not like me. And they should have their voices and critiques heard. https://t.co/556bq18FvW
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 18, 2017
