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Posted on 01/17/2017 10:12:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It doesn’t feel good to have your reporting labeled “fake news” by the man who is about to become president of the United States.
Immediately following Donald Trump’s first press conference as president-elect last week, CNN’s Jake Tapper defended his cable-news network over charges that it had misled the public by reporting on the existence of an unverified document that U.S. intelligence officials had presented to both President-elect Trump and President Obama.
While BuzzFeed published a copy of the dossier, which contained details of compromising information that the Russians supposedly have on Trump, CNN did not. It was a distinction that Tapper made abundantly clear during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday.
As Tapper explained, the officials who briefed Trump “didn’t know if the information was real” but they “wanted him to know about it, that it was out there, because they thought it potentially affected national security.” He also gave Meyers credit for being the first to get a member of the Trump transition team on record when he confronted Kellyanne Conway about the allegations last week.
“You explained it great, you had all the details perfectly right,” Tapper told Meyers. “I wish I could say the same about everyone else who followed us in our reporting, but you were exactly on target.” Conway, of course, denied that Trump knew anything about it.
Speaking on behalf of CNN and his reporting, which Meyers said has been conflated with BuzzFeed’s, Tapper said he’s been “yelled at” by both presidents and press secretaries before. “But I’ve never seen the effort to delegitimize an organization for a story that you don’t like that has been proven,” he said, noting that “every word of the story that we reported last Tuesday has been proven correct.”
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So what do you call fake news about fake news? Metafake? Uberfake?
the world will know the value of CNN if ATT refuses to buy it.
CNN news people can bleat all they want. Their actions are libelous.
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