28 Oct 2017: Daily Caller: CNN’s Undisclosed Ties To Fusion GPS
by Chuck Ross and Peter Hasson
CNN’s reporting on the Trump-Russia dossier has left out at least one crucial fact: the close ties between the network and the opposition research firm at the center of the dossier controversy.
CNN’s reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier’s credibility. Left out of Perez’s reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS’ operatives...
Glenn Simpson, the Fusion co-founder most often associated with the dossier, is used to working on stories with Perez. As reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Perez and Simpson regularly co-authored stories on national security.
Another Fusion founder, Tom Catan, worked as a reporter for the Journal at the same time as Perez and Simpson. The third Fusion co-founder, Peter Fritsch, worked above Perez and Simpson as the senior national security editor...
Simpson and Fritsch left the WSJ in 2011 to launch Fusion. Perez jumped from the paper to CNN in 2013. Another longtime Journal reporter, Neil King, left the paper to join Fusion in December 2016.
Photos posted to Facebook underscore the personal closeness between Perez and the Fusion GPS operatives. One photo posted by Perez shows King, who left the Journal for Fusion in December 2016, and another man posing for a picture at The Bullpen, an outdoor bar right outside of the Washington Nationals’ stadium...
Another photo, from September 2015, shows Perez, King and Fusion co-founder Peter Fritsch...
At no point in Perez’s reporting did he disclose his close ties to the Fusion GPS operatives...
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board sounded the alarm about its former reporters in a remarkable editorial earlier this month, accusing Beltway media of being complicit in a coverup with Fusion. “Americans don’t need a Justice Department coverup abetted by Glenn Simpson’s media buddies,” the editors wrote in a scathing takedown of the firm...
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/28/cnns-undisclosed-ties-to-fusion-gps/
31 Oct: WSJ Editorial: The Press Loves Fusion GPS
Politico fails to disclose that one of our critics works for Fusion.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-press-loves-fusion-gps-1509475567
wonder why FakeNewsMSM would prefer Dem govts?
Feb 2014: Newsbusters: Two New MSNBC Hosts Bring News Media-Obama Revolving Door to 30
By Brent Baker
(Ours is a strict “revolving door” list, sticking to those with jobs as reporters, editors, correspondents, anchors, producers or media executives, not those who just have or had roles as “contributors” to news outlets. And we’re sticking to those with a direct tie to one of Obama’s campaigns or a position within his administration, so none of the many others in the news media who currently or have in the past put in stints for Democratic officials or even liberal groups which advance Obama’s agenda...
Check the MRC’s Media Reality Check on MRC.org for the full list of all thirty...
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-baker/2014/02/24/two-new-msnbc-hosts-bring-news-media-obama-revolving-door-30