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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 27 2017, @02:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-watches-the-retractions dept.

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That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted.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?]

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by GlennC on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:25PM (8 children)

    by GlennC (3656) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:25PM (#532024)

    The way I see it, this idea that President Trump is under the influence of Russia is the "Left's" version of the "birther" and "closet Muslim" canards used against President Obama.

    It's nothing more than a wedge tactic, and so far appears to be highly successful in keeping the focus on the "Democrats" versus "Republicans."

    I take it as further evidence that our national IQ reduction program is wildly successful.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @05:48PM (#532039)

    Yes the IQ reduction is in full swing, from lead in water to uncontrolled illegal immigration of illiterates the world over.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @07:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @07:44PM (#532086)

    The way I see it, this idea that President Trump is under the influence of Russia is . . . nothing more than a wedge tactic

    Thank you for your totally unsubstantiated opinion, based on the anonymous source of your intelligence, Glenn, if that really is your name! Fake news!!

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by digitalaudiorock on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:17PM

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:17PM (#532130) Journal

    The way I see it, this idea that President Trump is under the influence of Russia is the "Left's" version of the "birther" and "closet Muslim" canards used against President Obama.

    You have GOT to be kidding!...I defy you to find anything of this sort around the "birther" shit:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_SoHo [wikipedia.org]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayrock_Group [wikipedia.org]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sater [wikipedia.org]

    I mean holy crap...tell me this is normal shit for the POTUS!

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:37PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:37PM (#532143) Journal

    Except for the minor fact that one is real and the other isn't.

    Russian meddling to help Trump is established fact. Even Trump has acknowledged it.

    Bitherism, on the other hand, remains completely made up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @10:31PM (#532172)

    I mean really now... Maybe these stories are actually trolling the idiots, seeing who will rise up to defend such morally deficient things like breitbart and trump.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @01:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @01:27AM (#532223)

    Why is this insightful? Easily and quickly demonstrated as false.

    Yup, who wants to participate in a community half filled with lunatic ostriches?

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 28 2017, @01:08PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday June 28 2017, @01:08PM (#532411) Journal

    That's my read, too. The difference is the Left has the weight of the media on their side to reinforce their canard, whereas the Right had only Fox and Limbaugh. So they pull up MSNBC or CNN or the Washington Post every day and get a wash of reporters in serious grown-up voices telling them that construct is real, when it is in fact exactly what you've identified, a wedge tactic to keep the focus on "Democrats" versus "Republicans" instead of the real issue, which is the "99%" vs the "1%" (or the "humans" vs. the "lizard people," or any similar labeling).

    Very intelligent people get sucked into it from all sides because of identity and identity formation. "Tribalism" is another word. An intelligent person who identifies with one tribe will predispose himself to credit everything coming from his tribe and to doubt everything coming from the other tribe(s). It's very difficult to break out of that because that group identification is deeply ingrained in humans. Originally it helped us out-compete other species; now it is the well-spring of our lamentations.

    Psychopaths, on the other hand, are not hardwired the way humans are, so it's easy for them to step outside tribalism and exploit those divisions, hopes, and fears for their own benefit. They have been so successful at it that they have brought everything to the brink of collapse. But joining them, all of us becoming psychopaths too, would not solve anything but instead accelerate apocalypse because the only outcome of every-man-for-himself is destruction.

    There's another path, the only one we can take in the long term if we want our species and civilization to survive, which is to redefine the "us" in the "us" vs. "them" to include all us. We have to consciously and assiduously weed out psychopaths from positions of influence and power and put them into treatment where they belong. We have to consciously and assiduously refrain from the name-calling and tribalism on display here and everywhere; it's very difficult, of course, because it can be so reflexive. But we have to try.

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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Wednesday June 28 2017, @09:28PM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Wednesday June 28 2017, @09:28PM (#532653) Journal

    national IQ reduction program

    Otherwise known as government-funded education.