CNN and the Russians.

[Ishmael]

So it turns out that "Creative News Network's" hang up with the Russians has very little to do with facts. It's all about the ratings.

Before I go into the 'why' of it I'd like to remind you gentle readers CNN's past history. Such as reporting neutral, if not positive, reports about Saddam Hussein. The qou quid pro there was that good ole Saddam would allow them to remain 'in country.' So selling their journalistic integrity for an ounce of gold is not new to that network.

So now they're in the throws of selling out to AT&T, A potentially FAT payoff for the investors. Any increase in CNN's market share translates directly into the price AT&T would have to pay for the acquisition. All of a sudden the 'Project Veritas' recent exposure, or to be more precise the disclosures made by the interviewee's' make perfect sense.

It matters not what you or I may think of Trump, he is in the process of blowing the press up, or more precisely they are in the process of blowing themselves up. Journalistic suicide bombers. It's delicious to watch.

Ishmael

 

[Lunation]

Yes. The guys who get sued all the time for fake and misleading rightwing propaganda sure did stick it to a dude who works on CNN's health channel.

I mean, if anyone is in the know about CNN's handling of the Trump/Russia** investigation it's their health channel people.


**I think the Trump/Russia story is largely overblown, particularly with all of the glaring incompetence on Trump's part that would actually make a good story. The right had Benghazi, the left has Russia. BUT Project Veritas is still completely and utterly full of shit.

 

[Ms_Ann]

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150525124042-wolf-cnn-35-social-graphic-large-169.jpg

 

[Ishmael]

Yes. The guys who get sued all the time for fake and misleading rightwing propaganda sure did stick it to a dude who works on CNN's health channel.

I mean, if anyone is in the know about CNN's handling of the Trump/Russia** investigation it's their health channel people.


**I think the Trump/Russia story is largely overblown, particularly with all of the glaring incompetence on Trump's part that would actually make a good story. The right had Benghazi, the left has Russia. BUT Project Veritas is still completely and utterly full of shit.

Let me guess, you're pissed off about having the 'ends' you believe 'justify the means' being thwarted. As far as the law suits go, But it's much like the DNC emails that were made public.......all of the participants and they're minions are out raged at their being made public...........but NO ONE is disputing the content.

Fuck you moron.

Ishmael

 

[nowisthetime]

I thought you died?

 

[phrodeau]

CNN publicly apologized for their fake news and canned those involved.

When will the White House do the same?

 

[Lunation]

Let me guess, you're pissed off about having the 'ends' you believe 'justify the means' being thwarted. As far as the law suits go, But it's much like the DNC emails that were made public.......all of the participants and they're minions are out raged at their being made public...........but NO ONE is disputing the content.

Fuck you moron.

Ishmael

Is it just me, or is this post gibberish?

And I don't just mean the obvious grammar stuff, why are you on about DNC emails now?

Oh well. Have a nice day, lovely person.

 

[Sweetsweatymango]

Fuck the left wing, lie spewing CNN.

 

[toeskr]

I thought you died?

I thought you did?

We can hope, soon....

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

CNN is running important news...



Obama's jeans and Elmo on foreign policy.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

CNN publicly apologized for their fake news and canned those involved.

When will the White House do the same?

Two days he's used the same post but won't answer the question, When sill the WaPo and NYT do the same?

 

[water505]

CNN is running important news...



Obama's jeans and Elmo on foreign policy.

Who said CNN isn't irrelevant?

 

[water505]

Two days he's used the same post but won't answer the question, When sill the WaPo and NYT do the same?

He suffers from political Tourette's.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

He suffers from political Tourette's.

Stupidity, and I don't mean the stupidity that comes from extreme political beliefs, but that of low IQ, is also something he suffers from.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

How media miscalculation and a fateful decision by the NY Times editor destroyed American journalism

Adaptation of a speech given by Michael Goodwin.

Which brings us to the crucial questions. Can the American media be fixed? And is there anything that we as individuals can do to make a difference? The short answer to the first question is, “No, it can’t be fixed.” The 2016 election was the media’s Humpty Dumpty moment. It fell off the wall, shattered into a million pieces, and can’t be put back together again.

The mismatch between the mainstream media and the public’s sensibilities means there is a vast untapped market for news and views that are not now represented. To realize that potential, we only need three ingredients, and we already have them: first, free speech; second, capitalism and free markets; and the third ingredient is you, the consumers of news.

Which brings me to the third necessary ingredient in determining where we go from here. It’s you. I urge you to support the media you like. As the great writer and thinker Midge Decter once put it, “You have to join the side you’re on.” It’s no secret that newspapers and magazines are losing readers and money and shedding staff. Some of them are good newspapers. Some of them are good magazines.

There are also many wonderful, thoughtful, small publications and websites that exist on a shoestring. Don’t let them die. Subscribe or contribute to those you enjoy. Give subscriptions to friends. Put your money where your heart and mind are. An expanded media landscape that better reflects the diversity of public preferences would, in time, help create a more level political and cultural arena. That would be a great thing.”

http://www.worldtribune.com/trumped...y-times-editor-destroyed-american-journalism/

 

[Disgustipated]

How media miscalculation and a fateful decision by the NY Times editor destroyed American journalism

CNN and the Russians

 

[water505]

CNN's dogged pursuit of ratings puts them in the same category as bad sitcoms.

 

[water505]

Stupidity, and I don't mean the stupidity that comes from extreme political beliefs, but that of low IQ, is also something he suffers from.

It's hilarious when he says people are too dumb to understand what he's talking about.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Let me guess, you're pissed off about having the 'ends' you believe 'justify the means' being thwarted. As far as the law suits go, But it's much like the DNC emails that were made public.......all of the participants and they're minions are out raged at their being made public...........but NO ONE is disputing the content.

Fuck you moron.

Ishmael

Ishmael never passes up an opportunity to bellow
Buttery Males! Buttery Males!

Dick lick.

 

[TalkRadio]

Zumi's a fat, balding liquor pig.

As such, he makes great GB cannon-fodder.

I thought you died?

^^^ Zumi alt?

Are you really a fat, balding liquor pig?

 

[TalkRadio]

Ishmael never passes up an opportunity to bellow
Buttery Males! Buttery Males!

Dick lick.

15 years of excellence & you're only a Lit legend?

Would that be a self-proclaimed Lit legend?

Why aren't you in the GB Hall of Fame?

 

[Wrong Element]

So it turns out that "Creative News Network's" hang up with the Russians has very little to do with facts. It's all about the ratings.

Couldn't have been that much about the ratings, since the story they retracted never actually aired.

 

[FakeNews]

A Costly Retraction for CNN and an Opening for Trump

In CNN’s newsroom, it is called the Triad: a three-pronged internal system designed to ensure that sensitive reporting by the network’s journalists is unimpeachable before it runs.

Last week, the Triad fell short — and by Tuesday, the consequences were being felt across the news industry and in the hallways of the White House.

CNN was forced to apologize after retracting a story on its website that a Russian bank linked to a close ally of President Trump was under Senate investigation. Three high-ranking journalists at the network resigned.

But the mea culpa did not stop Mr. Trump and his supporters from seizing on the mistake, condemning CNN and claiming it as evidence that other major news organizations were conspiring against the administration. On Twitter, Mr. Trump wrote that “they caught Fake News CNN cold” and asked, “What about all the other phony stories they do?”

By the afternoon, Mr. Trump’s deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was on live television scolding the White House press corps over the retraction, even urging Americans to watch a video filmed by a controversial right-wing activist, James O’Keefe, that showed a low-level CNN producer criticizing his network.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/business/media/cnn-retracted-story-on-trump.html

 

[RobDownSouth]

Stupidity, and I don't mean the stupidity that comes from extreme political beliefs, but that of low IQ, is also something he suffers from.

AJ is well-versed in the limitations of "low IQ"...
http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff502/Soonyigump/Wingnut%20Scale_zpsedgrjglb.jpg

 

[hsnh_45]

You're so vile, Rob! AJ is a victim!