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On Friday night the story was replaced by an editor’s note: “That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted.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 ...
if their slander is done from the senate floor.
Liars. Losers.
“VERY fake news”
ya gotta love it!
“fake news” is no longer sufficient to describe the daily fake news from CNN/WaPo/NYT, since ALL news from them is fake news.
Nope, it is necessary to come up with a special, NEW term, “VERY fake news”, to describe exceptionally fake news!
Kudos to CNN for publishing fake news that’s SO fake that a whole new phrase must be added to the English language just for CNN!
I’m thinking CNN got Punk’d...................
Dooley:”I am really beginning to wonder if Baghdad Bob is calling the shots at CNN.”
Thanx!..............
Have you seen this? O’Keefe exposed CNN:
http://www.veritaslive.com/06-26-2017/americanpravdacnn.html
NEW VERITAS VIDEO: American Pravda: CNN
CNN is hardly alone when it comes to embarrassing retractions regarding Russia. Over and over, U.S. major media outlets have published claims about The Russia Threat that turned out to be completely false – always in the direction of exaggerating the threat and/or inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle. In virtually all cases, those stories involved evidence-free assertions from anonymous sources which these media outlets uncritically treated as fact, only for it to be revealed that they were entirely false.
Several of the most humiliating of these episodes have come from the Washington Post. On December 30, the paper published a blockbuster, frightening scoop that immediately and predictably went viral and generated massive traffic. Russian hackers, the paper claimed based on anonymous sources, had hacked into the “U.S. electricity grid” through a Vermont utility.
Breaking: Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont https://t.co/LED11lL7ej
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 31, 2016
That, in turn, led MSNBC journalists, and various Democratic officials, to instantly sound the alarm that Putin was trying to deny Americans heat during the winter:
Literally every facet of that story turned out to be false.
CNN will surely huddle (they recently fired 3 people, not including Bonifield) to find a new new Trump attack. They don't know what else to do, because if they start doing responsible reporting their viewers will go away.
CNN——cable confidential.
That's THE standard...
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