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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CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident, and Stelter states that the retracted article did not adhere to standard editorial guidelines.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
KEYWORDS: 201610; 20161031; alfabank; alfabankhoax; alfabankplot; anthonyscaramucci; cnn; cnnfakenews; cnnretracts; confidentialproject; demlies; ericlichtblau; lexharis; liberalmedia; lichtblau; media; michaelsussmann; msm; rdif; russia; russiaprobe; scaramucci; scarramucci; thomasfrank; trump; trumprussia; yourefired
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“These types of stories are typically reviewed by several departments within CNN – including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers – before publication.

This breakdown in editorial workflow disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”~~~~~~~~~~Really?

1 posted on 06/26/2017 4:22:41 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

bingo


2 posted on 06/26/2017 4:25:00 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: rdl6989

bookmark


3 posted on 06/26/2017 4:25:50 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: mandaladon

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Yea, right.
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4 posted on 06/26/2017 4:25:52 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mandaladon

LOL x 1,000,000 on this one.

I don’t think there are enough LOLs.

It really is unfrickinbelievable.

I hope their advertisers drop like flies.


5 posted on 06/26/2017 4:25:58 PM PDT by bryan999
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To: mandaladon

The midtown pizza parlor has openings.


6 posted on 06/26/2017 4:26:03 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: mandaladon

3 janitors took the fall.


7 posted on 06/26/2017 4:26:29 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
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To: ptsal

Allowing resignations shows no remorse by the corporation


8 posted on 06/26/2017 4:26:58 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: mandaladon
“These types of stories are typically reviewed by several departments within CNN – including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers – before publication.


Yeah, right.
9 posted on 06/26/2017 4:27:03 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?z)
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To: mandaladon

Thomas Frank!! LOL!!! About damn time!


10 posted on 06/26/2017 4:27:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mandaladon

bwa ha haaaa..... good riddance, but they would have to empty out CNN’s building to begin to build an honest news organization.

This is just a few miscreants falling on their swords to try to protect the rest of the organization.


11 posted on 06/26/2017 4:27:41 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: mandaladon

The Scalp Count looks like it’s starting to move in Trump’s favor. IMHO, there are a lot democRATs and their complicit media lapdogs that are starting to see the pendulum begin to swing back with a passion and are saying to themselves, “Just walk away.”


12 posted on 06/26/2017 4:28:30 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Yep. Like CNN didn’t know.

They ain’t fooling everyone.


13 posted on 06/26/2017 4:28:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: mandaladon

Just fleeing a sinking ship is all...


14 posted on 06/26/2017 4:29:07 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Ann Archy

“Thomas Frank, the reporter who wrote the story...”

You beat me by a little bit! That was the first thing that jumped out at me, too!

So. Much. Winning! :)


15 posted on 06/26/2017 4:29:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: mandaladon

They were probably facing massive lawsuits they would lose. The real reason they retracted.


16 posted on 06/26/2017 4:30:10 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

He’s a FAT, LYIG PIG and it FINALLY caught up to him!! GMTA


17 posted on 06/26/2017 4:30:37 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mandaladon

btt


18 posted on 06/26/2017 4:31:33 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: mandaladon; Whenifhow

re. Eric Lichtblau, DC editor of the CNN Investigative Team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lichtblau

Controversy[edit]
On October 31, 2016, the New York Times published an article by Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers indicating that intelligence agencies believed that Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election was not aimed at electing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[6] It was subsequently revealed that multiple United States intelligence agencies were conducting an investigation at the time into covert aid from the Kremlin to the Trump campaign.[7][8] This has led to criticism of the New York Times coverage of the election, and speculation that the Times reporting, and the Lichtblau article in particular, contributed to Trump’s victory.[9] On January 20, 2017, the New York Times published an article by the public editor acknowledging that the Times staff, including the editors and Lichtblau, had access to materials and details indicating that the Russian interference was aimed at electing Donald Trump, contradicting the October 31 Lichtblau article, and stating that “a strong case can be made that The Times was too timid in its decisions not to publish the material it had.”[10][11]

Daniel Pfeiffer, former senior advisor to president Barack Obama, characterized the decision not to publish the story while at the same time publishing many articles that fueled the Hillary Clinton email controversy as a “black mark” in the newspaper’s history.[12] New York Times editor Dean Baquet dismissed the controversy, stating that the public editor article is a “bad column” that comes to a “fairly ridiculous conclusion.”[13]


19 posted on 06/26/2017 4:33:25 PM PDT by maggief
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To: mandaladon

Shenanigans. Review by several departments would mean they couldn’t breathlessly break the latest leak from some “anonymous” source.


20 posted on 06/26/2017 4:33:47 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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