CNN greenwashed their logo so I’m purplewashing my site.

With the delicacy of a fistful of ham, CNN is making an effort to scream in our ears that it in fact is “green”. No literally, it’s green now. Their logo is green, and I’m guessing future set designs will be imbued with the same nauseous hue as to reassure us that our news is fed to us organic and hormone-free. Of course this is all bullshit, CNN is a business operating with an exorbitant budget. I mean they “teleported” a hologram of some hip-hop star with the help of 30 some odd cameras into their “Situation Room” on election night for no reason.

They plaster the walls with excessive amounts of HD televisions and Microsoft Surfaces so that our news feels more “hands-on”. On debate nights they had some loony type of metering system that made absolutely no sense as a piece of information design. They were simply two lines moving up and down along a time-line while the candidates spoke, but you can rest assured some expensive robots were calculating eons of political data in order to bring you “the latest”! As for the greenwashing movement itself, it was already obviously out of hand when we started seeing those ridiculous Exxon Mobile ads about earthquake energy. Of course they’re researching technology that’s not feasible yet while quietly disregarding technology available now. Like the electric car.

Phew, that was a lot of air-quoting. I apologize.