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On Friday night the story was replaced by an editor’s note: “That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted.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 ...
What standards? They have NO standards.
Great strategy. I'm sure it will work, since CNN has no competition.
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..............
Don’t f### with Scaramucci.
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Is Jason Farkas at CNN related to Evelyn “Blabby” Farkas, one of Obamas data disseminators?
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.
....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.
CNN's eliminating themselves from competition... News organization suicide?
Senators cannot be sued for defamation.................
“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?
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Thank you.......................
Are you serious? Just how far above us do these jackals think they are?
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