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Very Fake News Scandal Consumes CNN as Jeff Zucker, Network Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction
www.breitbart.com ^ | 25 Jun 2017 | By Matthew Boyle

Posted on 06/26/2017 6:49:00 AM PDT by Red Badger

The scandal surrounding CNN’s mishandling of a very fake news hit piece on President Donald Trump and his associates grows bigger on Sunday night as the network’s president Jeff Zucker and public relations team is refusing to comment to anyone — even to CNN media reporter Brian Stelter — about what happened.

Stelter, in his Sunday evening newsletter named for the television program he hosts Reliable Sources, credited a Breitbart News investigation with forcing what he admitted is an embarrassing retraction for his employer CNN.

“On Friday evening CNN.com fully retracted a story after questions were raised about the accuracy of the reporting and sourcing,” Stelter wrote:

The story, by Thomas Frank of the investigative unit, said Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.” It didn’t get TV airtime, but it was shared on the web, where it was spotted and scrutinized by Breitbart. On Friday night the story was replaced by an editor’s note: “That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled.” The editor’s note included an apology to Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, who was named in the story. The next morning Scaramucci responded via Twitter: “CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.” Some prominent conservative figures, like Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity, seized on the story as an example of anti-Trump bias and anonymous source malfeasance…

But then, after calling this episode “an embarrassing moment for CNN,” Stelter dropped a neutron bomb on his own employer: He revealed that CNN is refusing to comment on or explain the matter, even to CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fake; jaketapper; jeffzucker; kellyanneconway; media; msm; projectveritas; russia; scaramucci; thomasfrank
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1 posted on 06/26/2017 6:49:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
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That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted.

What standards? They have NO standards.

2 posted on 06/26/2017 6:58:11 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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Very Fake News Scandal Consumes CNN as Jeff Zucker, Network Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction

Great strategy. I'm sure it will work, since CNN has no competition.

3 posted on 06/26/2017 6:58:29 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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4 posted on 06/26/2017 6:59:18 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Don Corleone

Well, they do, but they’re pretty low...................There’s a mathematical symbol for ‘approaching zero’ but I don’t know how to post it..............


5 posted on 06/26/2017 7:00:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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Don’t f### with Scaramucci.


6 posted on 06/26/2017 7:03:44 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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7 posted on 06/26/2017 7:05:36 AM PDT by slimjim12
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8 posted on 06/26/2017 7:06:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Don Corleone

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Is Jason Farkas at CNN related to Evelyn “Blabby” Farkas, one of Obamas data disseminators?


9 posted on 06/26/2017 7:07:07 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted...”

Wasn't FAKE enough.

"...Links to the story have been disabled."

But the story is still on their webserver so they can read it while fondling themselves.

10 posted on 06/26/2017 7:10:26 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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....the Treasury Department looked into the matter and determined unfounded allegations that originated with far-left-wing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to be “without merit...

Did we hear an apology from Warren?
Fake, just like all the other allegations by Fauxcahontas and her tribe in the Democrat Party.


11 posted on 06/26/2017 7:22:15 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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Dooley told Breitbart News. “I am really beginning to wonder if Baghdad Bob is calling the shots at CNN. Jeff Zucker should definitely answer questions about the lack of journalistic integrity at CNN.”

CNN's eliminating themselves from competition... News organization suicide?

12 posted on 06/26/2017 7:25:17 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black clitizens spend too much time worrying about what white people think. Get a life dudes.)
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Senators cannot be sued for defamation.................


13 posted on 06/26/2017 7:29:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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“Jeff Zucker, Network Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction”

Zucker is doing exactly what Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have done when the media and Dems were demanding he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Russian campaign interference allegations.

In todays 24/7 spin cycle most demands burn out after 3-4 days if they aren’t responded to. The Democrats (Hillary, Eric Holder, Obama, Lois Lerner, Podesta, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch) have all demonstrated the best way to handle a firestorm is to ignore it and stonewall. If you don’t feed the frenzy, the firestorm will end and the reporters will move on to the next story. Zucker knows by the end of this week the CNN “scandal” will be out of the headlines and in 2 weeks will be forgotten.

When will Republicans learn? Can’t the RNC hire a first rate public relations person to manage the news cycle?


14 posted on 06/26/2017 7:34:41 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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15 posted on 06/26/2017 7:34:56 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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There’s a mathematical symbol for ‘approaching zero’ but I don’t know how to post it..............

Δx→0

16 posted on 06/26/2017 7:36:49 AM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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Thank you.......................


17 posted on 06/26/2017 7:41:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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Here's what Time Warner needs to do: fire Jeff Zucker immediately. Zucker created a mess at NBC over how they handled the replacement for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show and now made people intensely distrust CNN.
18 posted on 06/26/2017 8:26:02 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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Senators cannot be sued for defamation..

Are you serious? Just how far above us do these jackals think they are?

19 posted on 06/26/2017 9:33:40 AM PDT by wastedyears (Prophecy of sky Gods, the sun and moon)
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http://www.pointoforder.com/2009/04/16/why-it-is-pointless-to-sue-a-member-of-congress-for-defamation/


20 posted on 06/26/2017 9:50:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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