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Deeply-Troubled CNN Hopes You’ll Quickly Forget Its Shocking Ethics Breach
Townhall.com ^ | May 27, 2021 | Brian Maloney

Posted on 05/27/2021 6:41:43 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/27/2021 6:41:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Forget? I still remember Seattle built the Kingdome just south of downtown even though in a popular vote the people chose to have it built near Tukwilla.

And the Kingdome was torn down over 20 years ago.


2 posted on 05/27/2021 6:44:09 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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The biggest head-scratcher is why CNN seems willing to stake its entire future on an all-out defense of two brothers who have limited career potential, at best.

Not to mention they are despicable people, corrupt liars.

3 posted on 05/27/2021 6:47:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: cuban leaf; Kaslin

Ethics breach? Hell, that implies there was only one “shocking ethics breach” - rather than 12 years of near-continuous ethics breaches!


4 posted on 05/27/2021 6:51:01 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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These people don't have ethics. The ends justify the means.

Why do we delude ourselves thinking these people are worth our time rescuing them from their sins?
5 posted on 05/27/2021 6:53:31 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: 1Old Pro

I haven’t taken CNN seriously for decades now. They lost all credibility with their “live reporting from Bagdhad” that was actually in a US studio, and the two reporterettes in the same location pretending not to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcmTeRB9Ni8


6 posted on 05/27/2021 6:55:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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For 2017 to the end of 2020...they went and used up every ounce of journalistic capability they had....to sell you the anti-Trump agenda. They should have named it the ATNC (Anti-Trump News Channel).

I was hoping some Chinese media company would walk in and buy them this year, and convert them over to China-News-Network.


7 posted on 05/27/2021 6:56:20 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Alan Dershowitz To Newsmax: CNN 'Is Quaking In Their Boots' (Suing CNN For $300 Million)
8 posted on 05/27/2021 6:57:38 AM PDT by blam
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Cable News is so yesterday.

We can completely satisfy our news requirements thru that www machine. It's time to stop talking about Cable News and Network news for that matter. They gain relevance only when people write and talk about them. Certainly, few people watch them.

9 posted on 05/27/2021 6:58:27 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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And Dershowitz filed his defamation lawsuit against Netflix yesterday, May 26, 2021, in federal court in Miami.


10 posted on 05/27/2021 7:02:35 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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A CNN employee, serving the governor of New York in emergency strategy sessions, is an illegal political contribution-in-kind and CNN needs to be charged and fined. Korporate officers of CNN need to be individually charged as well.


11 posted on 05/27/2021 7:03:39 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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“Zucker is a case study in the most destructive media executive ever to exist,” said a honcho at another network. “You’d have to tell me who else has taken a once-great network and literally destroyed it.”

The Biggest Loser

-- Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 10 January 2010

12 posted on 05/27/2021 7:10:06 AM PDT by Magnatron
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They lost it when they stopped responsibly and fairly reporting news honestly. It was like CSPAN at first and very quickly devolved into political activism.


13 posted on 05/27/2021 7:12:56 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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The Biggest Loser -- Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 10 January 2010

Absolutely! She never did get to have Bill Clinton's baby. That was her goal in life.

14 posted on 05/27/2021 7:14:44 AM PDT by sport
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“News” organization are incestuously intertwined with government... Family members, marriages, relatives where one works in government and the other in ‘news’ is common.

One hand washes the other - and the general population stops trusting...

CNN is delusional if they think they have much left to protect...


15 posted on 05/27/2021 7:15:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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To: 1Old Pro

I completely agree. Frankly, there is almost no unbiased news out there any more. But I’m fine with that. I can spot bias pretty easily. It’s why I had to dump TV in 1997. It was just too irritating. Now I can “talk back” and call out the bias when I see it. It is like stripping the biased veneer off the raw facts. Then you get to make up your own mind.


16 posted on 05/27/2021 7:20:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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“News” organization are incestuously intertwined with government... Family members, marriages, relatives where one works in government and the other in ‘news’ is common.

Indeed, Pols wanted to harness the power of earned media for re-elections and "reporters" wanted the inside scoop as they wanted to save the world from another Watergate. Sprinkle in massive liberal bias and you have lost all credibility as a straight news organization.

17 posted on 05/27/2021 7:20:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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"And Dershowitz filed his defamation lawsuit against Netflix yesterday, May 26, 2021, in federal court in Miami."

Alan Dershowitz Sues Netflix For $80M Over Allegations In Jeffrey Epstein Documentary

18 posted on 05/27/2021 7:25:50 AM PDT by blam
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To: 1Old Pro

Liberal ideology always comes first, even if it kills you, your family, or your business!


19 posted on 05/27/2021 7:29:22 AM PDT by neverbluffer
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To: 1Old Pro

In the short run the revolving door between politics and ‘news’ works... same with incestuous intertwinings... but in the long run these ‘oh too common’ ethical lapses - that seemed minor at some point - destroyed an industry.

The hardest addictions to conquer are ones that benefit in the short run (or feel good in the short run) but destroy in the long run... it’s why toxic incentives are called ‘toxic incentives’...


20 posted on 05/27/2021 8:09:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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