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    Very Fake News Scandal Consumes CNN as Jeff Zucker, Network Flack Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction to Own Network



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    by MATTHEW BOYLE25 Jun 2017Washington, D.C.3,721


    The scandal surrounding CNN’s mishandling of a very fake news hit piece on President Donald Trump and his associates grows bigger on Sunday night as the network’s president Jeff Zucker and public relations team is refusing to comment to anyone — even to CNN media reporter Brian Stelter — about what happened.
    Stelter, in his Sunday evening newsletter named for the television program he hosts Reliable Sources, credited a Breitbart News investigation with forcing what he admitted is an embarrassing retraction for his employer CNN.


    “On Friday evening CNN.com fully retracted a story after questions were raised about the accuracy of the reporting and sourcing,” Stelter wrote:


    The story, by Thomas Frank of the investigative unit, said Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.” It didn’t get TV airtime, but it was shared on the web, where it was spotted and scrutinized by Breitbart. On Friday night the story was replaced by an editor’s note: “That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled.” The editor’s note included an apology to Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, who was named in the story. The next morning Scaramucci responded via Twitter: “CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.” Some prominent conservative figures, like Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity, seized on the story as an example of anti-Trump bias and anonymous source malfeasance…


    But then, after calling this episode “an embarrassing moment for CNN,” Stelter dropped a neutron bomb on his own employer: He revealed that CNN is refusing to comment on or explain the matter, even to CNN.


    “The truth is, there’s still a lot we don’t know,” Stelter wrote. “On Saturday and Sunday I asked CNN PR for details and comment. A network spokeswoman declined to comment as of Sunday evening.”


    Stelter called for a full accounting of what went wrong so CNN can learn from its significant mistakes.


    “I sometimes complain to my editors about the layers of editing and oversight that exist at CNN,” Stelter wrote. “But these processes exist for good reasons. Determining what went wrong this time will help prevent future damage to the news organization…”


    Losing Stelter as a public defender, for now, is a huge moral loss for the network as this scandal grows bigger and casts a wider net internally. His voice joins others, like Breitbart News and BuzzFeed News, in calling for CNN’s public relations team to answer questions about the matter. As more in the media become aware of the scandal and get involved in covering it as well, especially now that the weekend is over and it’s not getting any better, insiders at CNN worry that this is spiraling out of control quickly.


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    But that’s not all: Now calls are coming for Zucker himself to stand before the public and press to address what exactly went down here.


    Debbie Dooley, a Georgia-based conservative activist with Main Street Patriots and organizer of recent protests against CNN outside the network’s headquarters this month, is calling on CNN’s president to address the network’s recent retraction scandal in an on-camera press briefing before the American public.

    “If Zucker demands President Trump’s team answer questions on camera, then he should be willing to hold an on camera press conference and take questions about the Fake News crisis at CNN,” Dooley told Breitbart News on Sunday evening. “Viewers and advertisers should demand it.”


    Dooley organized a sizable protest a few weekends ago at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters. The argument that Zucker should answer questions on camera in an on-record televised press briefing comes as CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta and others at the network have whined repeatedly as White House press secretary Sean Spicer moved briefings off-camera this past week. Acosta and Stelter have hammered the White House for refusing to allow Acosta to aggrandize himself using Spicer or other White House officials as a foil at press briefings.


    Others in media, including ex-CNN anchors and reporters like Howie Kurtz and Ed Henry — both of whom are now at Fox News — have criticized CNN for Acosta’s and Stelter’s and others’ over-the-top reactions to the White House decision. Spicer himself, in an interview with Kurtz, said that Acosta’s silly games are “sad.”


    But, now the game that Stelter and Acosta have played with the White House seem to backfiring more on CNN at a time when the network cannot handle any more problems.


    “Why does CNN even care about on camera briefings when they run ridiculous made up fake news stories?” Dooley told Breitbart News. “I am really beginning to wonder if Baghdad Bob is calling the shots at CNN. Jeff Zucker should definitely answer questions about the lack of journalistic integrity at CNN.”


    Dooley added that more and more protests are planned outside CNN and that her growing group will continue to hammer the network President Donald Trump has identified as a “very fake news” network until they stop reporting fake news.


    “We plan on protesting CNN every month as long as they report fake news,” Dooley told Breitbart News.


    This crisis represents one of the biggest the network has ever faced. Late last week it was forced to retract the very fake news hit piece it ran on President Trump and his associates Anthony Scaramucci and Stephen Schwarzman.


    The piece inaccurately alleged that Scaramucci and Schwarzman were under investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Treasury Department for supposed ties to what is actually a completely normal Russian investment fund. It turns out that not only is the Senate Intelligence Committee not investigating the matter, as Breitbart News discovered from sources close to Senate GOP leadership, but the Treasury Department looked into the matter and determined unfounded allegations that originated with far-left-wing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to be “without merit.”


    Insiders have blamed Warren’s staff and the staff of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) for pushing the very fake news to CNN, something CNN has not denied nor has Warren’s staff. Harris’s staff did deny the charge, but her spokeswoman’s claim of certainty that nobody in the office spoke to CNN or was involved in pushing this out — made just a couple hours after an initial request for comment — strains credulity since it would be highly unlikely the spokeswoman could have spoken with every Harris staffer in that timeframe.


    The now-retracted CNN piece, which was originally published late Thursday night, was deleted from the internet on Friday night originally without explanation. Then, an editor’s note was added to the original link announcing the retraction of the story. The editor’s note apologized to Scaramucci.


    “On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund,” CNN said in the late Friday night editor’s note. “That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled. CNN apologizes to Mr. Scaramucci.”


    It’s worth noting that CNN did not apologize to Schwarzman or President Trump, or others maligned in the hit piece it retracted.


    More than two days later now, CNN has offered no public explanation for what it did or why, who was responsible, and what editorial changes will be made as a result. In fact, CNN has offered no public comment whatsoever other than the editor’s note appended to the retraction. And as a result of the network’s continued silence on the matter, it finds itself embroiled in scandal two days after the retraction in a mishandling of the matter that has now compromised the network’s coverage of the entire Russia scandal altogether.


    CNN’s president Zucker, both Breitbart News and BuzzFeed News have confirmed, is leading an internal investigation into what went wrong and who was responsible. As BuzzFeed reported, both Zucker and the head of HR at CNN are now “directly involved” in the internal investigation. The report from BuzzFeed also noted that “people will be disciplined” because the network’s handling of this scandal in the words of a CNN insider to BuzzFeed is a “massive, massive $#@! up.”


    It is unclear if the reporter on the byline of the retracted story, Thomas Frank, has been disciplined in any way. It is also unclear if he is still employed by the network. Questions are also swirling around Frank’s use of social media to provide political advice to the House Democratic conference — something supposedly objective reporters are not supposed to do — another damning fact for which CNN has thus far had no comment.


    It is unclear which editors published the hit piece, who handled the retraction, why the retraction was done late Friday night, and whether consequences will be handed down to those people — and what such consequences will be.


    All these questions and more continue dogging CNN until Zucker and the network’s public relations team answer them fully and completely.


    CNN corporate spokeswoman Emily Kuhn has repeatedly refused to answer such detailed questions on the matter and is refusing to provide Zucker — the head of the internal investigation — for an interview. She has also refused to answer when asked by Breitbart News if Zucker will be, as Dooley is calling for, stepping in front of television news cameras for an on-camera press briefing on the scandal engulfing CNN.


    What’s more, CNN has apparently altered its internal editorial processes for all “Russia-related content,” per a staff memo that was leaked to BuzzFeed.


    “No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason [Farkas] first,” CNNMoney’s executive editor Rich Barbieri wrote in the internal email to all editorial staff. “This applies to social, video, editorial and MoneyStream. No exceptions. I will lay out a workflow on Monday. Thanks.”


    The email was headlined “IMPORTANT: Russia-related content.”


    Sources inside CNN tell Breitbart News that the leadership of the company is scrambling internally to determine who is leaking the information out of the network to news outlets like BuzzFeed News and Breitbart News, but they cannot find the leaks since hundreds of employees work there and most are upset with the way Zucker and others in senior management are handling this. What’s more, insiders say, the longer Zucker and CNN’s public relations team hold out in providing a clear, concise, and detailed explanation to the public about what happened, the more likely it is that Zucker himself will be dragged into the throes of this scandal.


    Some inside the network are hoping Zucker himself appears publicly to explain this and answer questions and clear it up once and for all. It remains to be seen if he will.


    But reporters, editors, producers, and anchors at the network alike are all concerned this badly mishandled scandal has now tainted anything the network covers on Russia, and they are worried that any scoops it would normally get will go to other news outlets instead. They fear that sources will cut them off because of the significant hurdles the new editorial processes will place in front of stories getting published, and even if reporters can compete with other outlets and get past the hurdles, this scandal stains all of the network’s Russia reporting.


    The restrictions on use of social media when it comes to “Russia-related content,” as revealed in the leaked memo, are also infuriating many CNN editorial staff who do not like the constricting nature of Zucker’s management.


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    sooooooo, the fake newz stories are finally catching up to them.


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    Three CNN Employees 'Resign' Over 'Russia Collusion' Fake News Retraction

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    Three CNN Employees 'Resign' Over 'Russia Collusion' Fake News Retraction

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    But reporters, editors, producers, and anchors at the network alike are all concerned this badly mishandled scandal has now tainted anything the network covers on Russia, and they are worried that any scoops it would normally get will go to other news outlets instead.
    LOL. Tainted their credibility? They have zero credibility with anyone with half a brain.
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    Above might be further evdidence.. but to be fair, they was already exposed as fakenews back in 2014 (RM1.0 scam) and before that during Iraq fake WMD Colin Powell scams in 2002-3.

    BTW, is Anderson Cooper among those who resigned?


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    I am glad their true colors came out. I never trusted them as a reliable news source.


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    How many of their articles did CPUd post?
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    “I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul

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    CNN was just responding to market demand to file erroneous stories for safe space zones for legions of dumbasses across the country. Many people would rather be taken in by falsehoods than have to deal w/ uncomfortable truths. They just sit on the edge of their couches every night hoping that this bs investigation turns something up against Trump and co.

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     What I Really Told Project Veritas’s So-Called Reporters
    In real life, I was discussing direct-action-protest ideas, not voter fraud. And yes, I’m still ready to fight for my community.
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    By now James O’Keefe’s heavily edited video alleging to show Democratic operatives planning voter fraud has orbited around the social-media universe. I am one of the people in the film and, like many viewers who have common sense, I found it less of an investigative report and more of a soap-opera drama.

    To set the record straight: I am not an operative for the Democratic Party. I did not agree that I would drive a busload of people to commit voter fraud, nor did I agree that I would help anyone commit voter fraud. I met with the group only once, for less than an hour—contrary to their claim that this was a year-long operation.

    Like previous O’Keefe videos, this one presents heavily edited footage to distort reality and create a narrative that serves the goals of Donald Trump and his supporters. Indeed, a recent report shows the Trump Foundation donating thousands of dollars to Project Veritas, the organization behind the videos.

    In real life, I was explaining what the outcome of the presidential election will mean for the future of voter-ID laws, which have prevented thousands of Americans from voting; the role of civil disobedience in politics; and the role of activists in planning those protests.

    I find it amusing to learn that the people who were interviewing me were fake representatives of an invented donor who supposedly wanted to give money to the immigrant-rights movement. Pretty clever.

    During our short conversation, I explained a few times the effective work that my organization, the DREAM Action Coalition, has done and that has been covered by the media—namely, our successful tactic of having people who are directly affected by a broken immigration system confront elected leaders, to obtain answers to the issues that matter to the country.

    I myself have confronted Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to get answers that matter to my family; I have even been arrested while speaking out against anti-immigrant politicians.

    Throughout the conversation, the two conservative operatives said that their fake donor wanted to go beyond this kind of activism and help people vote twice, as a way to enfranchise those who can’t vote. Several times, I informed them that voting twice is illegal, but I told them we could go another route to give people who don’t have a vote a voice in the election.

    In light of Tea Party efforts around the country to make it harder for minorities to vote, I told them, their donor could immediately support a campaign that would elevate the voices of American citizens who want to commit their vote on behalf of their undocumented loved ones. Another option was to support initiatives like the NYC ID program, which allows anyone, regardless of immigration status, to obtain a much-needed identification card and thus gain more access to civil society. Despite these options, the operatives were pushy in their donor’s desire to help people to vote twice all over the country.

    I assured them my confidence and allowed them to talk about their schemes as a way to humor a potential supporter. Needless to say, never would I have participated in any voter-fraud scheme. The unedited video tells the complete story.

    While O’Keefe’s tactics are sloppy and distasteful—not to mention possible grounds for defamation—what is clear is that O’Keefe is, like any activist, battling it out for political relevance. Indeed, we have organized daring actions where we have sneaked into hotel fundraisers, sometimes disguised as waiters or passionate groupies, in order to gain access to a politician.

    American history is filled with stories in which activists organized campaigns with elements of theatrics to rally the people into action. Take, for example, the Boston Tea Party. On the night of December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This pushed a reluctant public closer to war and independence from the British Crown.

    During the 1960s, young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a carefully planned sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the country. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct, or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing establishments to change their segregationist policies.

    I certainly don’t hold grudges against O’Keefe or the operatives, because what these videos demonstrate is the ever-present gladiatorial nature of American politics. He is an activist of the far right who is serving, albeit with deception and lies, the interest of his conservative, mostly white constituency.

    The videos got their media hits and successfully deluged my social-media accounts with hate messages, death threats, and even a funny remark that, in addition to being guilty of voter fraud, I would next claim that Donald Trump fondled me. However, this political gladiator is still standing, and I am ready for the next battle on behalf of my family and my community.
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    Trump called them out. If it weren't for Trump this would not be brought to light.

    If an acquaintance lies to me once and then several more times regarding one particular subject and even misleads me trying to convince me of something that is a lie, I would not ever believe them again about anything.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Schifference View Post
    Trump called them out. If it weren't for Trump this would not be brought to light.

    If an acquaintance lies to me once and then several more times regarding one particular subject and even misleads me trying to convince me of something that is a lie, I would not ever believe them again about anything.
    And that's why foreign leaders won't take our POTUS at his word anymore. He usually tells them something that contradicts whatever someone else from the admin had just said to them just a few hours earlier.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CPUd View Post
    And that's why foreign leaders won't take our POTUS at his word anymore. He usually tells them something that contradicts whatever someone else from the admin had just said to them just a few hours earlier.
    Is that bad? Should the US be trusted and believed? If Trump or any US official is not credible then they should not be believed and it is in the best interest of the world to know not to believe them.

    Should any president over the last 50 years be believed?

    Too bad that people are so gullible, in denial, or just don't care and that the ones that do care are always presented as "kooks" (like Dr. Ron Paul), or conspiracy theorists or idiots. If a person watches the collapse of Tower 7 and questions the narrative they are a crazy conspiracy person. That person is simply questioning something that does not make sense. These news organization and politicians are flat out lying, deceiving, and manipulating people. It would be best for this country and the world to know that you cannot believe anything you hear.

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    Where did the 'very' in 'very fake news' come from?

    I'm guessing that in this form of newspeak, fake news means news I don't like or don't agree with, and then very fake news means actually fake news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCount View Post
    Where did the 'very' in 'very fake news' come from?

    I'm guessing that in this form of newspeak, fake news means news I don't like or don't agree with, and then very fake news means actually fake news.
    We have to conform to ironclad standards to use adjectives, now? Really?

    Okay. But we aren't letting the trolls determine them. How about this? Fake news is half the facts mixed with plenty of editorial content masquerading as fact. Very fake news, meanwhile, is out-and-out lies.

    So, why do you people use the names of existing members who were popular, but didn't hang around long? AuH20 did that with AuH2O, and you did that with the count. Is that in the procedure manual? Do you think you're fooling people?
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    Quote Originally Posted by acptulsa View Post
    Okay. But we aren't letting the trolls determine them. How about this? Fake news is half the facts mixed with plenty of editorial content masquerading as fact. Very fake news, meanwhile, is out-and-out lies.

    My point is that lots of the things that are called 'fake news' stopped being 'fake' after 24-48 hours when they were directly corroborated by Our Glorious Cheeto Emperor. They were called fake not because of their lack of validity or sources, but rather because they did not support a particular worldview. Not only that, but these are the same people who continue to support news outlets which continually publish things that are not true, and who will defend these news outlets with excuses like 'well yeah they're not always/often right but sometimes they publish truths before anyone else.' It's a subjective double standard operating under the guise of objectivity.


    Quote Originally Posted by acptulsa View Post
    So, why do you people use the names of existing members who were popular, but didn't hang around long? AuH20 did that with AuH2O, and you did that with the count. Is that in the procedure manual? Do you think you're fooling people?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCount View Post
    Where did the 'very' in 'very fake news' come from?

    I'm guessing that in this form of newspeak, fake news means news I don't like or don't agree with, and then very fake news means actually fake news.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    LOL. Tainted their credibility? They have zero credibility with anyone with half a brain.

    Huhuhuh...you said taint.



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    The Federalist Papers, No. 15:

    Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

  34. #30
    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    for you Danke
    Last edited by goldenequity; 07-16-2017 at 07:03 AM.

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