Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story About Russia Investigation

Mediaite ^ | 26 Jun 2017 | Ken Meyer

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CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident, and Stelter states that the retracted article did not adhere to standard editorial guidelines.

[Vic S]

[fatima]

Sounds like a big lawsuit

[Enlightened1]

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

CNN = Still Fake News

[ptsal]

The midtown pizza parlor has openings.

[caww]

.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.

[caww]

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

[caww]

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.

[dynachrome]

“disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”

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

[existentially_kuffer]

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

LOL, that’ll fix it!

[Lazamataz]

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.

[GnuThere]

Is this a headfake preceding a libel suit?

[Rockitz]

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

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Three? Well, I guess it’s a start!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...journalism standards experts...

Now, that's funny!

[Red in Blue PA]

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

What a joke they are.

[Fitzy_888]

Resigned? Does that mean they are ineligible for unemployment?

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

[Jim Noble]

The worm has begun to turn.

[Enlightened1]

Independence Day is approaching, but this year the fireworks come early. Stay tuned.

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

 

[Enlightened1]

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

[hal ogen]

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