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CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident, and Stelter states that the retracted article did not adhere to standard editorial guidelines.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
“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.”
What a bunch of BS!!!! This is what they do all the time - make stuff up, make sure it hurts Trump.
Yes, seems like there must be more to it. MSM churnalists don’t usually resign so easily and quickly, and 3 of them at once!! That is more Libtard scalps than Rathergate, which took a long time to play out. Seems like CNN is in a panic!!
CNN is obsessed with taking out Trump, like Ahab and the whale. CNN should remember that at the end of Moby Dick, the whale drowns Ahab and sinks the Pequod.
These are felonies with a 10yr. prison sentence. So I suspect the media and Obamas folks are all intertwined in a big ball of corruption and treasonous Shannigans...And just like a ball of yarn once they started unraveling it they're finding more and more along the way. Might be they're really after the big guys in this....so they've got to run that ball of yarn out for awhile and see where it ultimately leads.
Nasty stuff going on and leading to what should be an ultimate climax......where it’s all going to lead eventually is beyond me but sufficient to say, as we expected from the get go, some heads are going to roll down the road.......thus far they’re dropping like flies at CNN..
Well they’re all a den of snakes and vultures no matter how it’s colored otherwise. I also suspect a lot of “favors” are being called in in order not to get discovered.
His book should be, "What's Wrong With Liberals Like Me!"
Fox will hire em .....
Leni
“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.”
The Curse of Trump strikes again !
Lying liberals, go against The Donald at your peril !
Finally, some accountability. CNN is still pretending to be an actual news network though with “standards,” which is a misleading joke of a claim.
Let me guess, MSNBC has now hired all three with a raise?
CNN figured that three scapegoats was the minimum number to make it seem like they were doing something that mattered.
Excellent!
Holy Cow. I think it might be this Project Veritas blockbuster that has leaked out on Reddit.
This is EXPLOSIVE.
Someone will have to do the link for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6jq54r/cnns_about_to_be_in_trouble_bigly/
In exchange for the resignation, the ex-employee gets a severance package, which can include an extension of health care and other benefits, and a neutral, if not positive reference.
Does the FCC have any purview to levy fines in cases like this? Maybe that would give these news outlets pause to get back to fairly reporting news instead of making up fake news and creating stories.
I see,Thanks.
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