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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That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted.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, @01:33PM
That is possible. That is the sort of games they all like to play in the Beltway. And they do play them, as much as all of us like to believe that sort of thing is the province of Hollywood and not how people really act. The media is out to get Trump, so why wouldn't we all expect that he in turn would be out to get them? None of them really has a shred of credibility at this point, so all of us humans ought to invest no emotion in the ebbs and flows of their tantrums and tricks.
Will they help Americans and the world, or not? Will they reverse the 40-yr slide in real incomes, or not? Those are the sorts of questions that should be what matters, not the drama of he-said, they-said. And if the answers to those important questions is no, if the real outcome is no, then hang them all and burn that whole place down to the ground, because they help us not at all and only do harm.
Washington DC delenda est.