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From Breitbart:
Another day, another very fake news story from the network President Donald Trump has identified as "very fake news."
CNN's Thomas Frank on Thursday evening published what would have been considered an explosive report if remotely true: One anonymous source told him both the Treasury Department and Senate Intelligence Committee are probing a Russian investment fund with ties to several senior finance world leaders close to President Trump. Only problem? Both Trump administration officials and those close to Senate GOP leadership say it's simply untrue.
The retraction from CNN:
On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted.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.
According to BuzzFeed News, CNN has responded by actually requiring executives to review stories:
CNN is imposing strict new publishing restrictions for online articles involving Russia after the network deleted a story and then issued a retraction late Friday, according to an internal email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The email went out at 11:21 a.m. on Saturday from Rich Barbieri, the CNNMoney executive editor, saying "No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason," a CNN vice president.
At least now we'll know who to blame.
[Ed Note: I debated leaving this in politics or dropping it to the main page. I opted for the latter because politics or not, the prevalence of "fake news" is one that we deal with on a daily basis from our respective social media feeds to all the major broadcast and cable news networks. How are we to tell what is "fake" and what is actually (relatively) "true"? The main stream media all put their spin on everything. A right slant for some, a left slant for others. Is the truth somewhere in between, or is it a story that we aren't getting becasue the mainstream media is so intent on telling their narrative that we the people are getting the shit end of the stick regardless of where we get the so called news?]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:25PM (3 children)
It's comments like this that shut down discussion, Intelligent debate and fairness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:54PM (2 children)
No, it's not! It is article submissions from Breitbart! You cannot discuss things, intelligently or otherwise, with the alt-right! They are only in it for the lulz! And they are fascist,
homotrans-phobic, Dark Enlightement, Young Blood transfusing, disruptive tech/eris worshiping, authoritarians. Debate and fairness have nothing to do with it. They can only be mocked. Mocked like a Turtle. Bannon--> McConnell. Makes sense, no?(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @10:28PM
... the alt-right! They are only in it for the eevulz! And they are fascist, omni-phobic...
A few minor corrections for you, but otherwise spot on. Well done. Was that some kind of attempt at a Left-Poe?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:32AM
No, they can be sliced up like a well-cooked ham. Cut them with razors to the bone. Mince them into little bits of insignificance that melt away in a puddle of their own absurdity. That's what you do with bombast such as you describe. If anything of worth, anything at all, is in them then that is the only way to expose it and make it of value to the world.
Washington DC delenda est.