Blahahahahahhahahahahaha Fake ass news. The story published Thursday was so fake that CNN couldn't even do a retraction and correction. They had to just delete it in its entirety. https://www.buzzfeed.com/passantino...restrictions?utm_term=.cc3dmk7Pnz#.mfm2rQeBON 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. "This applied to social, video, editorial, and MoneyStream. No exceptions," the email added. "I will lay out a workflow Monday." The new restrictions also apply to other areas of the network — not just CNNMoney, which wasn't involved with the article that was deleted and retracted. CNN didn't immediately return a request for comment and a question about what the previous workflow was. The deleted and retracted a story that claimed Senate investigators were looking into a Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Trump’s transition team. The now-deleted story was published Thursday and cited a single, unnamed source who claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee was looking into a "$10-billion Russian investment fund whose chief executive met with a member of President Donald Trump's transition team four days before Trump's inauguration."
CNN is embarrassed because it was Breitbart that caught them publishing very fake news. http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...eitbart-investigation-forces-rare-retraction/ CNN Under Fire: ‘Very Fake News’ Network Hit from All Sides as Breitbart Investigation Forces Rare Retraction
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/06/25/jeff-zucker-cnn-retraction-russia-conspiracy/ Meanwhile, Senate Democrats find themselves on the hot seat as insiders point to leftist staff for members like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) as being responsible for the thinly-sourced hit piece. Staff for Harris deny any involvement, but Warren staff have not responded.
In all fairness, they'd call anything that criticizes Trump "fake news". Hell they'd call anything MSM fake news.
In all fairness, if these outlets were more about journalism than pushing a narrative, they'd never have to worry about fake news in the first place.
This will be a one day story. No one will suffer any serious punishment. The left looks after its own. Breitbart fired an editor, Katie McHugh, for a tweet that 99% of its readers would agree with regarding muslim terrorism. Conservatives seem to have a need to piss on other conservatives. Liberals take care of each other. I see this constantly where discredited liberals waltz into high paying cush jobs at law firms, universities , big corporations, etc. Conservatives are blackballed from prestigious jobs and hounded if they do manage to find something. There is no better example than terrorist Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dhorn. They narrowly avoided long prison terms when chicago police somehow "mishandled" crucial evidence against them. Despite an acknowledged history of terrorism, they both landed prestigious university professorships.
Hardly a day goes by anymore where some liberal doesnt lose their shit and end their career over Trump, this is great entertainment watching Trump sending all of these liberals off the deepend. Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story About Russia Investigation by Ken Meyer | 6:48 pm, June 26th, 2017 CNN has accepted the resignations of multiple employees who were involved with the network’s retracted story that supposedly tied the Trump Administration to the Senate’s investigation into Russia. CNN is facing blowback over an erroneous report which claimed that former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci was connected to a $10 billion Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). The network pulled the story over the weekend, and they have issued new editorial rules for future content about the ongoing probes into Russia’s election interference. The Washington Post‘s Erik Wemple was first to report that three people have tended their resignations in the aftermath of the affair: Thomas Frank, the reporter who wrote the story, Eric Lichtblau, DC editor of the CNN Investigative Team, and Lex Haris of “CNN Investigates.” CNN’s Brian Stelter has confirmed the news: Follow Brian Stelter ✔@brianstelter Breaking: 3 CNN journalists have resigned after the publication of an article that was retracted. Here's my story http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/26/media/cnn-announcement-retracted-article/index.html … 4:39 PM - 26 Jun 2017 Three journalists leaving CNN after retracted article CNN said Monday that three journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a Russia-related article that was retracted. money.cnn.com 307307 Retweets 259259 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy CNN’s management has launched an internal investigation to review the incident, and Stelter states that the retracted article did not adhere to standard editorial guidelines. “These types of stories are typically reviewed by several departments within CNN – including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers – before publication. This breakdown in editorial workflow disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”
I think any news source can have this problem. It should be expected that a news outlet will release a bad story - like it should be expected that a trader lose money from time to time. A legitimate news firm will have infrequent missteps and will respond appripriately when they do. I think CNN responded appropriately with a loud response and the firing of the three involved. I'm sure you can think of many other "news outlets" that would not have done the same.