revelarts
07-28-2017, 11:04 AM
CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat
Glenn Greenwald
June 27 2017, 9:03 a.m.
THREE PROMINENT CNN journalists resigned Monday night after the network was forced to retract and apologize for a story linking Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci to a Russian investment fund under congressional investigation. That article — like so much Russia reporting from the U.S. media — was based on a single anonymous source, and now, the network cannot vouch for the accuracy of its central claims.
In announcing the resignation of the three journalists — Thomas Frank, who wrote the story (not the same Thomas Frank who wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”); Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eric Lichtblau, recently hired away from the New York Times; and Lex Haris, head of a new investigative unit — CNN said that “standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published.” The resignations follow CNN’s Friday night retraction of the story, in which it apologized to Scaramucci:...
BUT CNN IS hardly alone when it comes to embarrassing retractions regarding Russia. Over and over, major U.S. media outlets have published claims about the Russia Threat that turned out to be completely false — always in the direction of exaggerating the threat and/or inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle. In virtually all cases, those stories involved evidence-free assertions from anonymous sources that these media outlets uncritically treated as fact, only for it to be revealed that they were entirely false.
Several of the most humiliating of these episodes have come from the Washington Post. On December 30, the paper published a blockbuster, frightening scoop that immediately and predictably went viral and generated massive traffic. Russian hackers, the paper claimed based on anonymous sources, had hacked into the “U.S. electricity grid” through a Vermont utility...Literally every facet of that story turned out to be false...
Slate published another article that went viral on Trump and Russia, claiming that a secret server had been discovered that the Trump Organization used to communicate with a Russian bank. After that story was hyped by Hillary Clinton herself, multiple news outlets (including The Intercept) debunked it, noting that the story had been shopped around for months but found no takers. Ultimately, the Washington Post made clear how reckless the claims were:..
In the same time period — December 2016 — The Guardian published a story by reporter Ben Jacobs claiming that WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, had “long had a close relationship with the Putin regime.” That claim, along with several others in the story, was fabricated, and The Guardian was forced to append a retraction to the story:...
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/27/...russia-threat/ (https://theintercept.com/2017/06/27/cnn-journalists-resign-latest-example-of-media-recklessness-on-the-russia-threat/)
It's INSANE twilight zone action.
as i mentioned in the other thread... crazy Flat Earthers have better arguments and evidence than the MSM does in their obsessive hyping of the idea of TRUMP=Russia, Russia=US Election Hacking.
It's like the MSM is an Exwife making up a story she thinks makes an admittedly bad husband look worse.
Others that know what's up wonder why she keeps making up all these lies about him cheating with some Hot Asian woman from work, getting money from the Asian woman, Asian woman breaking into the house, Asian woman controlling his actions and words about how he handles things at the house and on the job. Asian woman meeting with the kids behind her back.
It's just Weird.
especially when there are other TRUE things that could be said against the guy that have ZERO to do with the Chinese woman.
But every day the Exwife is rambling on about her to everyone that will listen about that Asian woman.
Glenn Greenwald
June 27 2017, 9:03 a.m.
THREE PROMINENT CNN journalists resigned Monday night after the network was forced to retract and apologize for a story linking Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci to a Russian investment fund under congressional investigation. That article — like so much Russia reporting from the U.S. media — was based on a single anonymous source, and now, the network cannot vouch for the accuracy of its central claims.
In announcing the resignation of the three journalists — Thomas Frank, who wrote the story (not the same Thomas Frank who wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”); Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eric Lichtblau, recently hired away from the New York Times; and Lex Haris, head of a new investigative unit — CNN said that “standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published.” The resignations follow CNN’s Friday night retraction of the story, in which it apologized to Scaramucci:...
BUT CNN IS hardly alone when it comes to embarrassing retractions regarding Russia. Over and over, major U.S. media outlets have published claims about the Russia Threat that turned out to be completely false — always in the direction of exaggerating the threat and/or inventing incriminating links between Moscow and the Trump circle. In virtually all cases, those stories involved evidence-free assertions from anonymous sources that these media outlets uncritically treated as fact, only for it to be revealed that they were entirely false.
Several of the most humiliating of these episodes have come from the Washington Post. On December 30, the paper published a blockbuster, frightening scoop that immediately and predictably went viral and generated massive traffic. Russian hackers, the paper claimed based on anonymous sources, had hacked into the “U.S. electricity grid” through a Vermont utility...Literally every facet of that story turned out to be false...
Slate published another article that went viral on Trump and Russia, claiming that a secret server had been discovered that the Trump Organization used to communicate with a Russian bank. After that story was hyped by Hillary Clinton herself, multiple news outlets (including The Intercept) debunked it, noting that the story had been shopped around for months but found no takers. Ultimately, the Washington Post made clear how reckless the claims were:..
In the same time period — December 2016 — The Guardian published a story by reporter Ben Jacobs claiming that WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, had “long had a close relationship with the Putin regime.” That claim, along with several others in the story, was fabricated, and The Guardian was forced to append a retraction to the story:...
https://theintercept.com/2017/06/27/...russia-threat/ (https://theintercept.com/2017/06/27/cnn-journalists-resign-latest-example-of-media-recklessness-on-the-russia-threat/)
It's INSANE twilight zone action.
as i mentioned in the other thread... crazy Flat Earthers have better arguments and evidence than the MSM does in their obsessive hyping of the idea of TRUMP=Russia, Russia=US Election Hacking.
It's like the MSM is an Exwife making up a story she thinks makes an admittedly bad husband look worse.
Others that know what's up wonder why she keeps making up all these lies about him cheating with some Hot Asian woman from work, getting money from the Asian woman, Asian woman breaking into the house, Asian woman controlling his actions and words about how he handles things at the house and on the job. Asian woman meeting with the kids behind her back.
It's just Weird.
especially when there are other TRUE things that could be said against the guy that have ZERO to do with the Chinese woman.
But every day the Exwife is rambling on about her to everyone that will listen about that Asian woman.