CNN, Credibly Accused of Lying to its Audience About a Key Claim in its Blockbuster Cohen Story, Refuses to Comment
Glenn Greenwald
The Intercept
August 28 2018, 7:56 a.m.
CNN’s blockbuster July 26 story – that Michael Cohen intended to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he was present when Donald Trump was told in advance about his son’s Trump Tower meeting with various Russians – includes a key statement about its sourcing that credible reporting now suggests was designed to have misled its audience. Yet CNN simply refuses to address the serious ethical and journalistic questions raised about its conduct.
The substance of the CNN story itself regarding Cohen – which made headline news all over all the world and which CNN hyped as a “bombshell” – has now been retracted by other news outlets that originally purported to “confirm” CNN’s story. That’s because the anonymous source for this confirmation, Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis, now admits that, in essence, his “confirmation” was false. As a result, both the Washington Post and the NY Post outed Davis as their anonymous source and then effectively retracted their stories “confirming” parts of CNN’s report.
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#1: Hank Rearden To: nolu chan (#0)
Hank Rearden posted on 2018-08-28 16:22:27 Reply Private Reply
#2: Justified To: nolu chan (#0)
Going from number one to last place. People need to be fired all over the place.
All people want is real news that is not distorted and it must be relevant news. If news network report news its either propaganda or they just ignore news that is bad to "Regressives".
Justified posted on 2018-08-28 16:56:38 Reply Private Reply
#3: CZ82 To: nolu chan (#0)
CNN and Jim Acosta wouldn't know the truth or the facts if it crawled up inside them.
Tim Brown — August 29, 2018
State-controlled media outlet CNN, the first name in fake news, has provided decades of utterly fabricated stories. We're not talking a story that merely had an error or a wrong opinion in it or missed a fact. No, they have fabricated news stories for public consumption. Yet, recently, CNN's Jim Acosta was confronted by a reporter from Alex Jones' Infowars and asked whether he supports Jones being banned from social media platforms. Acosta wouldn't answer that despite his own network calling for such a ban of Infowars but made the brazen statement that CNN deals "with the facts" and "the truth."
Infowars reported:
Journalists and political commentators from both sides of the aisle criticized CNN for doubling down on its debunked Trump Tower story.
Lanny Davis, attorney for former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, admitted he was a source for a CNN story claiming President Trump had advance knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting between Don Jr. and a Russian lawyer.
Davis later backtracked in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, where he admitted his client didn’t know if Trump in fact had prior knowledge of the meeting.
But CNN is standing behind its report despite using Davis as a source.
“We stand by our story and are confident in our reporting of it,” CNN PR said in a statement Sunday.
Journalists from the left and right called out CNN for not just failing to correct its fake news, but also continuing to actively push it.
Several tweets were then provided to show how people pointed out the utter hypocrisy of CNN to defend their fake news. Here's a sampling.
Rest of the article is at the link: https://freedomoutpost.com/jim-acosta- compares-cnn-to-infowars-we-deal-with-the-facts-we-deal-with-the-truth/
Now you can see why some of us turned off CNN as far back as the Gulf War they were just as full of schitt then as they are now.
CZ82 posted on 2018-08-30 07:14:03 Reply Private Reply