CNN’s showing everyone just how massive dumpster fires can become.
The failing media network just got caught with their hands in the cookie jar about a fake news piece regarding the Trump-Russia conspiracy.
It was a complete fabrication, and now something else has happened to indicate just how quickly they’re imploding.
Breitbart reports:
“Three CNN employees have resigned amid the network’s very fake news scandal in which it was forced to retract a hit piece on President Donald Trump and his associates.
‘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editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a Russia-related article that was retracted,’ CNN’s Brian Stelter reported late Monday.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.’
Stelter quoted an anonymous CNN spokesperson—the network refused to comment to him on Sunday night over the scandal—as saying the network accepted their resignations.
As Stelter acknowledged — not in this piece, but in his Sunday evening “Reliable Sources” newsletter — it was a Breitbart News investigation that forced CNN’s retraction and now the resignations of three top network officials.
‘In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” the CNN spokesperson said. Stelter continued:
An internal investigation by CNN management found that some standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published, people briefed on the results of the investigation said.
The story, which reported that Congress was investigating a ‘Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials,’ cited a single anonymous source.
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.
In a staff meeting Monday afternoon, investigative unit members were told that the retraction did not mean the facts of the story were necessarily wrong.
Rather, it meant that ‘the story wasn’t solid enough to publish as-is,’ one of the people briefed on the investigation said.
The reporting about the Russian investment fund and Trump officials was not relayed on CNN’s television channels, but it was published on the web and shared on social media. On Friday, one of the people named in the story, Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci, disputed Frank’s reporting and said, ‘I did nothing wrong.’
Friday night, once it was determined that editorial processes were not followed, CNN deleted the story from CNN.com.
Soon thereafter, the story was officially retracted and replaced with an editor’s note.
CNN is still not commenting via official on-record statements from its public relations department and continues refusing to provide network President Jeff Zucker for interviews.”
Another CNN producer, John Bonifield, recently came clean that the network’s focus on the Trump-Russia conspiracy is because it gets the highest ratings.
Obviously CNN’s liberal audience eats it up and that means the Deep State is working on their sheep followers.
President Trump noted it too.
Fake News CNN is looking at big management changes now that they got caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories. Ratings way down!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
But CNN isn’t the only network that parades around daily like there’s breaking news into the investigation when nobody has found anything yet.
President Trump called out other networks and newspapers as well.
So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
At least some CNN employees actually have a conscience and felt bad to the point of resignation, but there are many others who couldn’t care less if the facts are real or not.