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CNN Journalism Award Winner Exposed As Massive Fraud
The Federalist ^ | December 20, 2018 | Warren Henry

Posted on 12/20/2018 2:39:16 PM PST by detective

Claas Relotius, who was once named CNN Journalist of the Year, resigned from his job as a writer and editor at German news magazine Der Spiegel after confessing to purveying fake news on a “grand scale.”

Relotius, 33, first came under internal suspicion at Der Spiegel after the publication of “Hunter’s border,” an article about an American vigilante group on the U.S.-Mexico border. The article’s co-author, Juan Moreno, grew suspicious and collected evidence against Relotius during a subsequent trip to America on another story.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakejournalist; fakenews
Another fake news journalist wins CNN awards.

Media hands out journalism awards like little league hands out participation trophies.

Do you notice how every fake news media type is an award winning journalist?

1 posted on 12/20/2018 2:39:16 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Tell the left stories they want to hear...

They will assume they are true, because they *want* to believe...


2 posted on 12/20/2018 2:41:36 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: detective

Move over Hollywood, Lying for a Living is expanding to the News.


3 posted on 12/20/2018 2:46:19 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: detective

You just KNEW he was going to look like such an epic douchenozzle.

4 posted on 12/20/2018 2:48:26 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: detective
CNN Journalism Award Winner Exposed As Massive Fraud

No way!

5 posted on 12/20/2018 2:48:32 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: detective

A fake among fakes.


6 posted on 12/20/2018 2:48:53 PM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: Lizavetta

Give that “man”some skin cream. Yikes.


7 posted on 12/20/2018 2:51:08 PM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: Lizavetta

Looks like a Hitler Youth.


8 posted on 12/20/2018 2:58:16 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: marktwain

9 posted on 12/20/2018 3:17:56 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: detective

Proof CNN is fake news.


10 posted on 12/20/2018 3:27:51 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: detective

cnn journalism award winner exposed as massive fraud


11 posted on 12/20/2018 3:29:53 PM PST by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: Lizavetta
He looks better in a less horrible image rendering.



12 posted on 12/20/2018 3:42:06 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: detective
Where have I seen this movie before....oh yea


13 posted on 12/20/2018 4:05:35 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2.)
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To: sparklite2

Not a lot better. You still can’t cover up crazy liberal eyes. Kind of an Aryan male Ocasio Cortez.


14 posted on 12/20/2018 4:07:48 PM PST by livius
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To: Lizavetta

That’s a bathhouse boy if there ever was one.


15 posted on 12/20/2018 4:40:39 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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16 posted on 12/20/2018 5:04:33 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Looks like Sting.


17 posted on 12/20/2018 5:34:15 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Lizavetta

I didn’t realize he was of that lifestyle.


18 posted on 12/20/2018 7:32:19 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: sparklite2

That pic is Gordon Sumner aka Sting from the band Police. Herr Fraud looks like he cops a bit of sting in the old ring lol


19 posted on 12/20/2018 7:41:08 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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