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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That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted.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: 2) by Lagg on Tuesday June 27 2017, @10:27PM

    by Lagg (105) on Tuesday June 27 2017, @10:27PM (#532167) Homepage Journal

    Do you know how silly it is to talk about slant and spin after including a summary that has Breitbart's opinion in it? The one site that is actually willing to turn shit like this into a direct attack on their beloved cult leader is that one (and seriously Trump has screwed up so hard now that when sites prefix him with President it looks weird). The rest of the news seems to be presenting it as what it is: One network of many that is a known sensational whore was in fact a sensational whore and took the exit that a professional would when they realized their screwup.

    Such vehemently anti-Trump voices as Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) are on the Senate committee.

    Once and for all: Fuck you state-cock-sucking pieces of shit who think anyone should be pro-any-head-of-state.

    Also: Do you guys take breitbart seriously? Did you notice it looks like a parody of what the Founders would make to complain about the Vox Populi? Fox News is better than they are at delivery of objective content. Which is hilarious.

    Who to blame? Ourselves. For letting them enter such a feedback loop and eating it up like the fat porker americans we are.

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