Posted on 09/05/2017 8:53:32 PM PDT by bigbob
CNN executives explicitly told their investigative team to stop looking into potential ties between the Trump administration and Russia following a series of high profile reporting errors led that to the resignation of three journalists in June.
Executives transferred all reporting duties associated with the Trump-Russia narrative to CNN’s Washington, D.C. team in the wake of a retracted June report, members of the CNN staff told The New York Times.
The report in question was removed from CNN’s website after the network admitted it could not stand by information that tied then Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci to a Russian investment bank under Senate sanctions.
CNN’s president, Jeffrey A. Zucker led an investigation into the mishap and found that the story, written by Pulitzer finalist Thomas Frank, was published over the concerns of CNN’s legal team. The investigation revealed that key aspects of Frank’s reporting were based on one source, who expressed trepidation with how the information was presented before the story went to print, a fact Frank failed to relay to his colleagues.
The report came after a serious of embarrassments for the network, including the firing of hosts Reza Aslan and Kathy Griffin in response to inappropriate, and in Griffin’s case threatening, public messages directed at President Donald Trump. The story also came after CNN issued a correction on an article that inaccurately predicted details of former FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony.
The error was also particularly damaging to CNN’s brand as it occurred as Trump was harshly criticizing the network over charges of biased coverage.
Despite the retraction, CNN has never said the story was incorrect. The network merely states that it “did not meet CNN’s editorial standards.”
Only because they might slip on something that falls out of the Hillary\Obama closet.
Well, well well!
Wonder why this is happening now, all of a sudden?
Thanx for posting bigbob
Only because they might slip on something that falls out of the Hillary\Obama closet.
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Yep.
Well, we might hope it’s because they got word that the Mueller investigation is not going to support the conclusion they have spent months putting on the air, but that’s probably wishful thinking.
However it’s more logical than the notion that CNN has “standards”.
“Pulitzer finalist Thomas Frank”
Translation: Seriously??
Yep, getting too close to the truth.
Of course, they’ll invent something ten times as bad.
Or they’ve realize the country doesn’t believe the meme and are sick of them not reporting real news. We are and will be in Harvey’s clean up for months and Irma is on her way.
“Pulitzer finalist Thomas Frank”
Funny how anyone thinks that CNN still has a “brand”.
That “brand” is as stale as moldy bread.
A likely winner of this year's Putzer Prize.
Oh man....
I see what you did there. LOL!
What investigative team? All they did was parrot DNC talking points & conspiracy theories.
Bingo!
Pulitzer Finalist aka First Loser.
Hey hey!
this is bad news for us. It means they are switching gears. They will never give up on attacking Trump. They’re shrills. I don’t know why Trump allows them in the “press room”
The bastards accuse Trump of lying while they run a sinking ship.
CNN needs like to go down, period.
Hey we would have gone to state but he put in the shortest HB we had to do a goal line dive. The kid got swatted by a DT in mid-air, literally swatted, it was the slap heard round the district.
“...a series of high profile reporting errors...”
AKA fake news.
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