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Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story About Russia Investigation
Mediaite ^ | 26 Jun 2017 | Ken Meyer

Posted on 06/26/2017 4:22:41 PM PDT by mandaladon

CNN has accepted the resignations of multiple employees who were involved with the network’s retracted story that supposedly tied the Trump Administration to the Senate’s investigation into Russia.

CNN is facing blowback over an erroneous report which claimed that former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci was connected to a $10 billion Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). The network pulled the story over the weekend, and they have issued new editorial rules for future content about the ongoing probes into Russia’s election interference.

The Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple was first to report that three people have tended their resignations in the aftermath of the affair: Thomas Frank, the reporter who wrote the story, Eric Lichtblau, DC editor of the CNN Investigative Team, and Lex Haris of “CNN Investigates.”

CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident, and Stelter states that the retracted article did not adhere to standard editorial guidelines.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: mandaladon

41 posted on 06/26/2017 4:54:37 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: mandaladon

Sounds like a big lawsuit


42 posted on 06/26/2017 4:55:00 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: mandaladon

CNN sacrificing some lambs because they know their reputation is in the toilet.

CNN = Still Fake News


43 posted on 06/26/2017 4:57:09 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: mandaladon

The midtown pizza parlor has openings.


44 posted on 06/26/2017 5:02:07 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: mandaladon

.The “very fake news” scandal that is engulfing CNN inside and outside now reaches its highest levels as even CNN president Jeff Zucker is personally involved in the internal investigation into a now-retracted hit piece, sources inside CNN with direct knowledge confirmed to Breitbart News.


45 posted on 06/26/2017 5:03:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: editor-surveyor

They were fired, I bet, not resigned. But if fired they couldn’t collect so there ya have it.


46 posted on 06/26/2017 5:05:58 PM PDT by caww
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To: Enlightened1

reports are surfacing that CNN’s ‘sole source’ for the hit piece seems to have been a staffer for Sen. Warren who was apparently “egged on” by staff for Harris..... Harris is a freshman Democrat Senator who has aligned herself with the Warren-led “resist” movement,.... using congressional hearings to increase her profile nationally by arguing with Trump administration officials.

this very fake news piece is a leftist pipe dream that seemingly originated in the annals of the office of anti-Trump “Resistance” leader Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). The idea that Scaramucci and others would be investigated for “meeting” with executives for the Russian investment fund in question is something Warren and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) pushed.....Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to looked into before President Trump was inaugurated.

“The matter has been reviewed and determined to be without merit,” a senior Trump administration official told Breitbart News for the original investigation that prompted CNN’s retraction...... In other words, Mnuchin looked into the allegations and found that there is nothing to it.


47 posted on 06/26/2017 5:11:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: mandaladon

“disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”

CNN: We got caught. Fire a couple or three red shirts.


48 posted on 06/26/2017 5:11:44 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: mandaladon

>>>CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident..

LOL, that’ll fix it!


49 posted on 06/26/2017 5:19:00 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: mandaladon
The Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple was first to report that three people have tended their resignations in the aftermath of the affair: Thomas Frank, the reporter who wrote the story, Eric Lichtblau, DC editor of the CNN Investigative Team, and Lex Haris of “CNN Investigates.” CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident, and Stelter states that the retracted article did not adhere to standard editorial guidelines.

Why single these three out? CNN *routinely* publishes Fake News.

50 posted on 06/26/2017 5:22:14 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: caww

Is this a headfake preceding a libel suit?


51 posted on 06/26/2017 5:30:37 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: 100American

Those that were noisiest before the pendulum started back will be prime targets for the Wrath of Don!


52 posted on 06/26/2017 5:36:00 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: mandaladon

Three? Well, I guess it’s a start!


53 posted on 06/26/2017 5:38:36 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: mandaladon
...journalism standards experts...

Now, that's funny!

54 posted on 06/26/2017 5:41:11 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: mandaladon

Yet they are still pushing ahead with an hour long show devoted to the Russia-Trump “connection.

What a joke they are.


55 posted on 06/26/2017 5:42:38 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: mandaladon

Resigned? Does that mean they are ineligible for unemployment?

Good luck scrubbing the lettuce bins at the food cooperative you morons!


56 posted on 06/26/2017 5:44:49 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: mandaladon

The worm has begun to turn.


57 posted on 06/26/2017 5:45:24 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: mandaladon; All
Independence Day is approaching, but this year the fireworks come early. Stay tuned.

https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/879492066593656832

 


58 posted on 06/26/2017 5:51:11 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: mandaladon

Per Sean Hannity Tweet,

“Also @Acosta u may want to warn Zucker tomorrow is gonna be another sh.... day for him and @CNN. Yes I know more than u his 3 paid liars.”

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/879496910276632576


59 posted on 06/26/2017 5:52:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Jim Noble

Liars/Losers run from Truth. LOL. Why don’t all the liars there quit? Then cnn would disappear. Hahaha. I laugh at these liars.


60 posted on 06/26/2017 5:53:28 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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