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Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story on Russia Ties 2017-06-27 01:23:49 Post No. 152211
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Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story on Russia Ties
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2017-06-27 01:23:49
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Three CNN employees have handed in their resignations over a retracted story linking President Trump to Russia, the network announced Monday.
Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN.
“In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignation of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” a network spokesperson said in a statement Monday.
On Thursday, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a report involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with possible ties to several Trump associates.
According to CNN, an internal investigation found that “some standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published.”
Citing a single unnamed source, the story reported that Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.”
CNN explained Monday that “these types of stories” usually would go through several departments, including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers.
But the network says there was a “breakdown in editorial workflow” which “disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”
The network’s investigative unit was told during a meeting on Monday that the retraction did not necessarily mean the facts of the story were wrong. But, rather, “the story wasn’t solid enough to publish as-is,” according to one of the people briefed on the investigation.
The story, which only appeared on the network’s site, was quickly disputed on Friday, as one of the people mentioned in the story — Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci — took issue with Frank’s reporting, insisting he “did nothing wrong.”
http://www.thewrap.com/three-cnn-employees-resign-retracted-story-russia-ties/
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“Once it was determined that editorial processes were not followed, CNN deleted the story from CNN.com,” the network said Friday on its site. “Soon thereafter, the story was officially retracted and replaced with an editor’s note.”
The piece “did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted,” the note said. “Links to the story have been disabled.”
The editor’s note also added an apology to Scaramucci.
“CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted,” Scaramucci tweeted the next morning. “Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.”
Haris, Lichtblau and Frank had solid reputations among their colleagues.
Frank worked as reporter for USA Today and Newsday before joining CNN. Lichtblau is a former New York Times Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter. And Haris was the executive editor of CNN Investigates.
“On Friday, CNN retracted a story published by my team. As Executive Editor of that team, I have resigned,” Haris said in a statement. “I’ve been with CNN since 2001, and am sure about one thing: This is a news organization that prizes accuracy and fairness above all else. I am leaving, but will carry those principles wherever I go.”
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>>152211
CNN is fake news? Whodve guessed
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>>152213
Interestingly other publishers have been looking at the story.
I wonder if this might be true?
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/new-bombshell-report-reveals-trumps-lengthy-ties-to-russian-mobsters-and-money-laundering/
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>>152211
nice dubs...
>>152212
>“Once it was determined that editorial processes were not followed, CNN deleted the story from CNN.com,”
It's not that it's Fake News but more like Gossiper News considering they didn't verify the source which is a golden rule in journalism.
Making them more and more like the assholes that they appear ass.
Otherwise /thread.
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>>152300
If they fired 6 people over it, I doubt it grasshopper
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>>152320
>Otherwise /thread.
*cough*
>>152300
>One principal was a career criminal, according to Bloomberg, named Felix Sater, who worked with organized crime in both the U.S. and Russia. Before he brought the company to Trump he worked as a mob informant for the FBI and ran to Moscow to avoid any criminal charges.
>A former Bayrock insider, Jody Kriss, admitted that he left the firm out of fear the company was a front for a money laundering scheme, and filed a lawsuit claiming he’d been swindled out of millions by cash skimming and tax dodging.
>A federal judge agreed in December that Kriss’ suit could move forward as a racketeering case.
>Trump claims he barely knows Sater, but the two met frequently at Trump Tower and Sater showed Trump’s children around Moscow on a visit, and he also carried Trump Organization business cards.
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>>152300
>Rawstory
Lol
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>>152211
Good, glad they are ousting incompetent weasels unlike Fox which just says sorry and hopes their viewership will forgive them, (they will.)
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>>152213
At least CNN has the journalistic integrity to retract stories when there are issues with them unlike quite a few other news organizations, or does Alex Jones doubling down on Sandy Hook conspiracies give you a raging boner?
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>>152497
Lol salty little cucks, it's a good day
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>>152497
>Liberals are so mad they now compare CNN to Alex Jones
You do realize that you guys are the only ones putting him on a pedestal right? I never even heard of the guy until NPR, god of all liberal slants, reported on him, and I vote Republican nearly every election.
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