Alison Kosik
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Alison Kosik is a business reporter for CNN
, based in New York. Before joining CNN in 2008, Kosik worked as a television reporter in Washington DC, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Corpus Cristi, Texas.
In October 2011, after Kosik made fun of the Occupy Wall Street
protesters using Twitter
, she was criticized by media colleagues and professors for "bastardizing" her profession by indulging in "snark and opinion." Kosik had tweeted that the protesters' purpose is to "bang on the bongos, smoke weed!", and responded to a question about their demands by tweeting "the list of whines is too long already."
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, based in New York. Before joining CNN in 2008, Kosik worked as a television reporter in Washington DC, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Corpus Cristi, Texas.
In October 2011, after Kosik made fun of the Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations initiated by the Canadian activist group Adbusters which began September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district...
protesters using Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, she was criticized by media colleagues and professors for "bastardizing" her profession by indulging in "snark and opinion." Kosik had tweeted that the protesters' purpose is to "bang on the bongos, smoke weed!", and responded to a question about their demands by tweeting "the list of whines is too long already."