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Fake News: Associated Press Engulfed in CNN-Level Scandal as It Covers Up Invention of Imaginary...
Big Government ^ | 6/30/17 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 07/01/2017 5:09:43 AM PDT by markomalley

The Associated Press is at it again, pushing more fake news. Sadly, the once-great news wire service is trying to cover up its mistake—nearly the exact mistake that cost three editorial staffers at CNN their jobs in a scandal that first exploded a week ago today.

A Breitbart News investigation has led to the correction by the Associated Press–which originally resisted–of the fake news it printed as deeper questions of responsibility, accountability, and journalistic ethics consume the AP heading into Fourth of July weekend.

This time, the Associated Press invented an imaginary meeting between EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, and then alleged that some kind of impropriety happened as a result..tout-mid-article { margin-bottom: 15px; }

This is exactly the same mistake CNN made a week ago, when it alleged that Anthony Scaramucci—the founder of SkyBridge Capital and an associate and ally of President Donald Trump—held “meetings” with Russian investment fund leaders and was under investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee and Treasury Department as a result.

A Breitbart News investigation uncovered that no such “meetings” took place, the Senate Intelligence Committee was not investigating the matter, and the Treasury Department had already—at the urging of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to now Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin before Trump’s inauguration—looked into it and determined the matter to be entirely “without merit.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; cnnmeltdown; newsfraud; pruitt
Full headline: Fake News: Associated Press Engulfed in CNN-Level Scandal as It Covers Up Invention of Imaginary Pruitt Meeting
1 posted on 07/01/2017 5:09:43 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Don’t think CNN made a “mistake”...it was intentional just like this AP fictional story.


2 posted on 07/01/2017 5:15:44 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: markomalley

I don’t think much of this “fake news” is anything more than propaganda to produce a first impression that people will believe. Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it.


3 posted on 07/01/2017 5:16:50 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: goodnesswins

It is the MSM’s business plan.


4 posted on 07/01/2017 5:36:39 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Don Corleone

Remember how the Democrats wanted to pass a fairness doctrine bill? The reason was because Rush was armed forces radio for 1 hour a day and was doing better than NPR and every other liberal show, combined. The Dems couldn’t handle it, despite Dems owning 93 percent of the media.

Based on what we are seeing, a republican bill to implement a fairness doctrine based on the blatant partiality of the MSM, while a bill that attacks freedom of the press, would send a strong message to the Dems and the MSM that if they don’t toe the line, they will be sanctioned. They would scream, hem and haw about it, but it was them that originally tried to pass it.


5 posted on 07/01/2017 5:44:58 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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To: Don Corleone

Communists will eventually realize that the MSM (with all of its propaganda) is not helping the cause.


6 posted on 07/01/2017 5:48:06 AM PDT by abclily
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To: markomalley

The “news media” is being undone (used by) the still in place Obamabots, and the “news media” is getting stuck with the egg on their face - while the Obamabots in the permanent government remain in place.


7 posted on 07/01/2017 6:19:26 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Don Corleone
It is the MSM’s business plan.
Journalism’s business plan is to excite the public with tales of malfeasance and ineptitude in society (the so-called “private sector”), and to claim objectivity for themselves.

Negativity which is balanced can be simple skepticism, which is unexceptionable. Negativity which is not balanced, and which calls itself “objective” is nothing more than cynicism.

Skepticism about society is the only justification for government; cynicism about society is a rationale for tyranny.

So-called “liberalism” is the business plan of journalism.


8 posted on 07/01/2017 6:21:19 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: markomalley

How many of you remember the Fake News being sent home by these activists/reporters about Vietnam? Their deleterious bar-stool copy and the ubiquitous Walter Cronkite jumped everyone and announced the war was over....leaving some ongoing pretty awful fire fights...with no back up from their military as they were told to “cease fire”...the rest is history...the ‘reporters’ are messing up the message again as fast as they can....why believe anything they print or say? Find the reliable ones and promote them by word of mouth.


9 posted on 07/01/2017 6:28:48 AM PDT by yoe (Keep focused Freepers andspeak out for POTUS ... investigate Maxine Waters, Ilijah Cummings, Nancy P)
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To: mountainlion
I don’t think much of this “fake news” is anything more than propaganda to produce a first impression that people will believe. Tell a lie enough times and people will believe it.

And that's why Trump counters hard and fast and repeatedly, being purposefully open-ended ("better hope tere aren't tapes") to force his narrative to be the one more discussed.
10 posted on 07/01/2017 6:47:43 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: yoe
How many of you remember the Fake News being sent home by these activists/reporters about Vietnam? Their deleterious bar-stool copy and the ubiquitous Walter Cronkite jumped everyone and announced the war was over...

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How many remember the FAKE news that a lone gunman named LHO fired three shots and killed a President? Walter Cronkite and his illegitimate side kick Dan Rather led that effort too.

11 posted on 07/01/2017 8:19:50 AM PDT by politicianslie (There are no MODERATE MUSLIMS.. ALL MUSLMS are commanded by KORAN to kill infidels. ALL MUST GO!)
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