CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story

“It’s not just Jeff Zucker, all Time Warner executives are anxious about if they will survive the merger,” a media source said Tuesday.

“What is interesting is that the AT&T execs who will decide who goes and who stays are [AT&T CEO] Randall Stephenson and [AT&T Entertainment Group CEO] John Stankey — who have a very good relationship with the current administration.”

President Trump — a fierce critic of CNN — publicly opposed the merger during the campaign. Sources said Scaramucci, a frequent guest on CNN to defend the president, was treated like a star at Saturday’s wedding of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Louise Linton in Washington, DC.
“Everyone at the White House has been high-fiving each other over Anthony’s success in embarrassing CNN,” one attendee said.

“Trump is thoroughly enjoying this, and Anthony got endless slaps on the back at Steve’s wedding.”

The retracted story was based on a single, anonymous source who claimed the Senate Intelligence Committee was probing ties between the Trump administration and a Russian government-owned investment fund.

The story, posted on CNN.com on Thursday, also claimed the Treasury Department was believed to be investigating Scaramucci over a purported Jan. 16 meeting with the fund’s director general.

In an Editor’s Note posted late Friday, CNN said the story had been deleted for not meeting “editorial standards,” with the network later revealing a “breakdown” in pre-publication vetting that typically involves “fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers.”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday she wasn’t sure if CNN’s handling of the matter was “good enough” for her boss, who went on a Twitter tirade against the news channel earlier in the day.

“I think that we have gone to a place where if the media can’t be trusted to report the news, then that’s a dangerous place for America, and I think if that is the place that certain outlets are going, particularly for the purpose of spiking ratings, and if that’s coming directly from the top, I think that’s even more scary,” she said.

“I think that we should take a really good look at what we are focused on, what we are covering, and making sure that it’s actually accurate and it’s honest,” she added.

CNN’s retraction of the Scaramucci story was the latest in a string of recent embarrassments, including the firing earlier this month of “Believer” series host Reza Aslan after he called Trump a “piece of s–t” on Twitter.

The network also fired comedian Kathy Griffin — longtime co-host of its New Year’s Eve coverage — over a photo that showed her posing with a prop resembling Trump’s bloody, severed head, and had to own up to a story that incorrectly predicted what fired FBI Director James Comey would testify about before Congress.

CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Following Friday’s apology, Scaramucci tweeted that “CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.”

On Tuesday, he retweeted a message from CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter saying that “nothing in my story should be taken to imply that Scaramucci is under investigation,” as well as a meme portraying Trump as Batman driving the Batmobile.

The image also shows Vice President Mike Pence as Robin, holding the “Bat Phone” and saying: “SORRY HE CAN’T TALK RIGHT NOW — HE’S BUSY WINNING!!!!”

CNN fucked up

>>152692
It is nice to read the occasional happy story like this between all the shit that goes on daily.

>>152580
CNN has to go

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>CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story
>Three journalists responsible for the retracted story — reporter Tom Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris
ANALYSIS: I have accused Emily Hancock or a person disguised as Emily Hancock, who may not even be a real person but rather a persona played by a variety of people, of stealing my sperm for the purposes of impreganting a former CNN executive producer of the Ali Velshi show Kelly Frank with my sperm. Kelly is the lesbian lover of former CNN international general manager Kathy Green who has seemingly named the baby, Gracen Green, after me, Gedalia Gershon. It is interesting that one of the fired reporters has the same last name as Kelly.

>CNN’s Russia story debacle came at the worst possible time for the network
>Lex Haris, CNN’s investigations editor, traveled to a journalism conference in Phoenix last week.
ANALYSIS: While Emily's aunt Kathy was a corporate big wig, Emily often spoke of her uncle Lex as the powerful man in the family. It is further interesting that one of the fired CNN employees is named Lex. It is interesting that he was in Arizona of all places. Furthermore, while working at LexisNexis I came to suspect that I was really at Lex's Nexus, and that they were selling fraud insurance to customers by asking for "Lex's" assessment of some counterparty risk scenario.

>The Scaramucci story marked the first time CNN has retracted a story since Zucker took over as chairman in late 2011
ANALYSIS: This other story says Zucker, whose name is pronounced like Tooker but with a Z, was hired at CNN at the end of 2012, just at the conclusion of pookiekins.

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What

is this going to be another seth green or comet pizza or is there a possibility there's anything to these accusations this time?

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>In an Editor’s Note posted late Friday, CNN said the story had been deleted for not meeting “editorial standards,” with the network later revealing a “breakdown” in pre-publication vetting that typically involves “fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers.”

Good on CNN for acting of their own volition to instantly correct their own mistakes as soon as they're discovered.

I know a lot of folks are upset about the manufactured news and threats of censorship coming out of the Trump administration, but the patriots among us should never let our own standards falter, if only for the principle of it.

I don't care for the corporate news media, but I might take a second look at CNN if they continue to act in earnest interest of accurate reporting rather than attempting to protect their own staff or cover up their mistakes to the detriment of the news.

>Following Friday’s apology, Scaramucci tweeted that “CNN did the right thing. Classy move. Apology accepted. Everyone makes mistakes. Moving on.”

And good on Trump's lawyer for taking it like a man.

No matter what you think about Project Veritas, that bit in the first video where the literallywho producer says "Ethics? Hah. This is a buisness." should be required watching for most people in this country.

We're in another period of yellow journalism in this country, and editors on both sides are more concerned with keeping that partisan fire burning than anything else.

Every newsroom in the country should be sent a copy of Shattered Glass for required viewing.