Fake news: CNN; NYT; VICE; WaPo; WSJ. ... now ABC .... It's like a trainwreck, but I can't stop watching

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SIGNYM

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 5:36 PM

That's what you get for peddling fake news.
ttps:// www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/06/26/three-cnn-emplo
yees-resign-over-retracted-story-on-russia-ties/?utm_term=.6e2aff20b015

Also,

Quote:
CNN Issues Strict Rules on Russia-Related Stories (Report)
Following the deletion and retraction of an article Friday on CNN’s website of a story involving a Russian investment fund and the Trump transition team, the network is placing tough restrictions on stories published that involve Russia, according to BuzzFeed.

http://www.thewrap.com/cnn-russia-stories-rules/

KPO

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 7:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That's what you get for peddling fake news.

Oh yeah? Can you give me any examples of RT or Sputnik employees getting sacked? What about any of your pro-Russia bloggers - do they ever sack themselves and shut down their blogs?

I think what you meant to say was, "That's what you get when free, professional media issues false stories: retractions, corrections and staff dismissals."

In other words - accountability. Without realising it, and while trying to do the opposite, you just made a compelling argument for the superiority of the MSM over all the media sources you rely on.

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"Objective truths are established by evidence. Personal truths by faith. Political truths by incessant repetition."

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SIGNYM

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 7:36 PM

If the MSM had actually gotten to a pale representation of the facts through some internal process, you might have a point. But this "news item", like so many others in CNN, WaPo, and NYT, was an unverified leak from yet another anonymous source, which CNN happily published without (apparently) even the simplest of verifications.

A process, I might add, that you support through your uncritical swill-swallowing, echoing, and your constant attacks on alternate sources and alternate PsOV.

BTW- Sputnik News and InfoWars - both of which you have constantly impugned as "biased" - were the ones who brought this inaccuracy to light. So suck it, you stupid deep-state trolls. CNN just got its ass handed to it; this isn't a "victory" for the MSM no matter how you try to spin it.

As an aside: The "journalism" behind the original story was so gorram shoddy that it probably put CNN at risk of a major libel suit, or worse. This the only time I've even seen such a thorough climb-down by a major "news" organization. Usually, the journalist resigns but the editor just blithely sails on. The subject of the libelous reporting - Scaramucci- can afford to be forgiving; after all, just look at CNN whittling all over itself trying to get out of trouble.

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

SIGNYM

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 8:01 PM

Oh, worse and worse for CNN ... apparently, according to recorded conversations with a Health producer at CNN (who talks to the editor-in-chief) this whole "Russia" thing was simply for ratings, and a lot of the stories were published without regard for the truth.

This is from another "biased" source (Project Veritas) who recorded a CNN producer saying this ...

Quote:
John Bonifield: Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA is doing shit all the time, we're out there trying to manipulate governments. I haven't seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime.
I know a lot of people don't like him and they'd like to see him get kicked out of office.... but that's a lot different than he actually did something that can get him kicked out of office.
Russia is for ratings!

PV Journalist: Why is CNN constantly like "Russia this, Russia that?"
Bonifield: Because it's ratings. Our ratings are incredible right now.
My boss, I shouldn't say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he was like I just want you to know what we're up against here. Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords. For a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN [Jeff Zucker] said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we're done with it. Let's get back to Russia.
But all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you're just like, that's adorable. That's adorable. This is a business.

MORE AT (another source that you consider "biased") ZEROHEDGE: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-27/cnn-exposed-undercover-sting-
producer-admits-russia-story-fake-news-pushed-ratings-0

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

6STRINGJOKER

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 8:16 PM

lol... you know what G and KPO sound like now?

They sound exactly like RAPE APOLOGISTS do. That or any of the "_______ Apologists" the left has regularly been claiming that all the "Alt-Righters" are.

"No, you see. It's a good thing that the media has been lying because now that they've gotten caught on more than one occasion there is going to be some accountability."

Don't pull a brain muscle with all of those mental gymnastics you guys are doing.

And Sigs... I appreciate you posting multiple sources for that. I had to admit that I cringed when I saw the words "according to buzzfeed" in your quote.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 8:19 PM

Not the best week ever for CNN, is it ?

Project Veritas Undercover Investigation: CNN Producer Admits Network Hyping ‘Mostly Bullsh*t’ Trump-Russia Scandal for ‘Ratings’

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has struck again: This time, a senior CNN producer was caught on camera by one of O’Keefe’s investigators admitting that the network’s relentless bashing of President Donald Trump with the Russia scandal lacks proof.

“Could be bullshit. I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now,” the CNN producer, John Bonifield, said in a video O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released on Tuesday, when asked about his thoughts on the Russia investigation. “Like, we don’t have any giant proof. Then they say, well there’s still an investigation going on. And you’re like, yeah, I don’t know. If they were finding something we would know about it. The way these leaks happen, they would leak it. They’d leak. If it was something really good, it would leak…. The leaks keep leaking and there’s so many great leaks, and it’s amazing. I just refuse to believe that if they had something really good like that that wouldn’t leak because we’ve been getting all these other leaks. So, I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the president is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun. You have no real proof.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/26/project-veritas-und
ercover-investigation-cnn-producer-admits-network-hyping-mostly-bullsht-trump-russia-scandal-for-ratings/

SIGNYM

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 8:20 PM

Well, here's one more!

CNN producer, caught on camera: Russia-Trump ‘mostly bulls—’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/27/cnn-producer-caught-ca
mera-russia-trump-mostly-bul/

But don't expect this to be covered by CNN.

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

SIGNYM

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 9:13 PM

Quote:
Most of what CNN does is "bullshit" right now! How the f*ck do you not know that yet?????

Well, then why do you so readily pass it along if you know it's BS? Yanno, like Trump is "under investigation" for collusion, obstruction, and money-laundering?? http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61678&p=11

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

GSTRING, everybody here knows that you're a constant purveyor of MSM baloney. Well, you just got your ass handed to you, like CNN got its ass handed to it.

Nice to see you disavowing your sources, though, if only under pressure. I hope you remember your own advice the NEXT time you think about passing along "evidens".

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

SIGNYM

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:11 PM

CNN isn't the only media outlet publishing fake news, it just happens to be the only one (so far) caught on tape admitting that's what they do. But CNN coverage isn't that far different from NYT, WaPo, or the MSNBC: It's all based on "anonymous" sources who could be lying, or simply amplifying on each other's stories. With no attribution and apparently very little verification, the stories could be completely bogus. According to one person who works for CNN, they are.

So, about those "investigations" of Trump.

Go back into your reportage - whatever source you got your "information" from, it doesn't really matter - and what you will find is that it goes back to "anonymous sources".

Obstruction of justice??

Quote:
Five people briefed on the interview requests, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said that Daniel Coats, the current director of national intelligence, Mike Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, and Rogers’s recently departed deputy, Richard Ledgett, agreed to be interviewed by Mueller’s investigators as early as this week.

So, five anonymous people said that some top security officials are being interviewed.

Money laundering??

Quote:
A former [anonymous] senior official said Mr. Mueller’s investigation was looking at money laundering by Trump associates.

Collusion?? Hmmm... there is nothing in the MSM recently... anonymous or not ... about Trump "colluding" with Russia during the campaign. I guess that one died when Comey testified that Trump was not under investigation.

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Meanwhile, what did the DOJ say about anonymous sources?

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"Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous 'officials,' particularly when they do not identify the country — let alone the branch or agency of government — with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated. Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations. The Department of Justice has a long-established policy to neither confirm nor deny such allegations.

The reality is that Special Counsel Mueller has broad authority into looking into whatever he wants. Just like Ken Starr started investigating Clinton's Whitewater dealings but wound up poking his nose into Bill's sex life, Mueller could be looking for evidence of "collusion", but he could just as easily be looking into where all of the LEAKS are coming from, or he could be checking into Trump's hemorrhoid status.

All we really know, at this point, is that there is an ongoing investigation into something.

If you find a named official anywhere in your "sources" I would be vastly surprised.

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

SIGNYM

Thursday, June 29, 2017 3:29 AM

So, no named sources from the MSM, GSTRING?
Yeah, I thought not.

Now, that doesn't prevent us from trying to deduce what's going on, but that's all that it is- speculation.

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

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