“Your inquiry is absurd and, of course, false,” Griffin answers. “There will always be extreme critics, but it is the media’s choice whether to give them a platform and legitimize their extremism. If you choose to print such critique and amplify it as a perspective by which we are guilty until proven innocent, it will speak more to the moral bankruptcy and untruthfulness of your outlet than anything else,” Griffin’s scathing response continunes.

Concluding, he adds, “if this is what CNN considers journalism, it deserves to fail.”

[This is a strange and unprofessional query, to the point of “media malpractice,” as Bryan Griffin writes. Blocking bad curricula isn’t a nascent form of fascism, and it’s an absurd way to frame the issue. More to the point, it makes clear that this isn’t a journalistic inquiry but an activist trying to pick a fight. “Absurd” is a polite term; “corrupt” is more accurate. — Ed]