CNN reporting on Gloria Allred reads like a press release — an embarrassingly written press release.

Apparently, CNN is shameless. Its headline is "Gloria Allred is a girl's best friend." Text highlights:

Her clients include mistresses, starlets and allegedly wronged women from all walks of life. So, when Gloria Allred calls a news conference, media types know they're about to hear some dish.

So it was on Wednesday, when Allred and her latest client tossed a big, juicy curve ball into the tight California governor's race.

So so so... dish me you dish, juicy curvy CNN, you big slut.

Nicandra Diaz Santillan blotted tears from her eyes as Allred announced she'd be filing a claim against her client's former employer, Republican candidate Meg Whitman, accusing her of emotional abuse and financial exploitation....

Emotional abuse and financial exploitation? Clue me in, CNN. I'm just a law professor. Are those real torts in California? Contracts claims? Or are these just Wrongs Against Women in some Allred-y scheme of causes for press conferences that make CNN reporters drool?

To say Allred, 69, is well-known is an understatement. 

To say CNN is a news organization is an overstatement.