CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, known around these parts as the Thunderdome, found a way to make itself even more grating and offputting to its viewers. The show is now closing by compelling panelists to engage in ritual self-humiliation via public reading of mean tweets solicited from the audience. But the show’s eponymous host is spared from this exercise.
Watch the “viewer feedback” segment as aired on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Tuesday, April 29th, 2026:
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