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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That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted.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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 28 2017, @11:29AM
I dunno, Azuma. It seems to me you're decrying a general state of affairs. What place online doesn't suffer from this malaise now? Every site I encounter with comments is as divisive.
It seems to me that it's by design. "Divide, and conquer," such that if you can get everyone screaming at each other in increasing volume then you can keep them from fighting you, which is a great thing to do if you're lizard people who mean to keep stealing everything that isn't nailed down.
The best counter is to not play that game. Reject the left/right false dichotomy. Take issues singly, in sharp focus, and above all avoid ad hominem remarks and name calling. But also don't be a pushover--when something is erroneous or cruel, respond robustly. It seems to me you do that every day, and I truly appreciate you for it.
There are real racists on this site. There are a couple true Nazis, too. There are also champions who cross swords with them. I see those expressing increasing dismay lately--you, aristarchus, etc.-- and it makes me sad because it's only when you and those cede the field that everything in the world really does get worse because the worst instincts of the former can then run wild.
That's even without shenanigans that the lizard people do get up to, like sending saboteurs into gatherings like this to destroy consensus and set everyone at each other's throats. People like us who form these small, bright communities nearly always think nobody would bother with us because we're small and insignificant, but the lizard people do because these places like SN are laboratories where ideas and resistance are sculpted and released into the larger world. I saw it back when I was in the progressive trenches in NYC and they sent agents provocateurs into our midst and tapped our phones, and I'm feeling their tendrils here, now. The ACs stomping their feet and saying how much SN sucks and they're leaving is just one such tactic, meant to peel away real community members with them.
Washington DC delenda est.