CNN Boldly Decides It No Longer Needs Reliable Sources

[K Douglas]

Mystery solved

Nice one Kat hehe.
Same thing happened with the Steele dossier. FBI used it to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page. They corroborated the dossier with a Yahoo News source. Only the Yahoo News source was also Steele.

 

[Frankfooter]

Nice one Kat hehe.
Same thing happened with the Steele dossier. FBI used it to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page. They corroborated the dossier with a Yahoo News source. Only the Yahoo News source was also Steele.

Nice try, the FBI was already investigating Trump because of Papadopolous before the Trump Piss Dossier came their way.
Not to mention Trump's tendency to hire the 'best people' who happen to already be under surveillance, like Carter Page and Manafort.

 

[K Douglas]

Nice try, the FBI was already investigating Trump because of Papadopolous before the Trump Piss Dossier came their way.
Not to mention Trump's tendency to hire the 'best people' who happen to already be under surveillance, like Carter Page and Manafort.

The FBI obtained a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page primarily because of the Clinton bought and paid for dossier. They lied to the court and used phony corroborative evidence. It was a severe abuse of power. 20+ higher level officials at the FBI and DOJ have either been terminated or demoted in the past year. That is unprecedented.

 

[wigglee]

it is so amusing to watch the Trump lovers doubling down as the insanity gets more and more surreal. Your day of reckoning will no doubt eventually come and when it does, you'll take a much needed vacation from Terb

 

[oldjones]

And at this point because of the retraction by the lawyer they are screwed. Every other news source had retracted. Stating they have another source isn't good enough.

The trust is lost.

None of the other media have a second source supporting the first; CNN says it does. What faith anyone puts in an anoymous source is always up to the individual reader/listener/viewer. No one is being forced to believe CNN.

No one is being persuaded by the empty 'arguments' raised against them thus far, no matter how much you guys bleat amongst yourselves about their dastardly refusal to retract an earlier story. They say a second source has confirmed it.

I suspect they've decided whatever trust that may have cost them, it wasn't worth anything much to begin with.

Like Donny, they're sticking with the story; unlike so many of his, theirs has yet to be proven false.

 

[jcpro]

None of the other media have a second source supporting the first; CNN says it does. What faith anyone puts in an anoymous source is always up to the individual reader/listener/viewer. No one is being forced to believe CNN.

No one is being persuaded by the empty 'arguments' raised against them thus far, no matter how much you guys bleat amongst yourselves about their dastardly refusal to retract an earlier story. They say a second source has confirmed it.

I suspect they've decided whatever trust that may have cost them, it wasn't worth anything much to begin with.

Like Donny, they're sticking with the story; unlike so many of his, theirs has yet to be proven false.

There's NO second source. Lanny and Mike are what they built this house of cards upon. All's CNN doing is trying to "save" what's left of Carl's credibility. He's been on CNN for weeks pushing this "scoop', admitting, after all this effort, that the great Bernstein has been but a pathetic hack with an ax to grind might just sink the domestic CNN to a below recovery level.

 

[Conil]

Commentary

On July 27, CNN aired a news story in which it claimed President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of the meeting at Trump Tower between members of his campaign team and two Russians working with Fusion GPS. Despite the fact Trump has repeatedly stated that he didn’t know about this meeting until after it had occurred, two anonymous sources assured CNN that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen personally witnessed the then-candidate for the presidency being told the details about the forthcoming meeting. The two sources went on to claim that Cohen wanted to make this assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller.

So excited was the mainstream media by this anonymously sourced story that it dominated the headlines for days. Trump was caught now! Soon, Mueller would have Cohen under oath before a grand jury, and then Trump’s collusion with the two Russians at the Trump Tower meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, would be fully exposed!

Never mind the fact that by this point, it’s been revealed these two Russian lobbyists were affiliated with Fusion GPS, the same research firm that produced the Steele dossier, which had sent them to this meeting to lobby Trump’s team against the Magnitsky Act sanctions.

There has been a very interesting development in this story since CNN published their article.


Michael Cohen’s lawyer, longtime Clinton associate Lanny Davis, outed himself publicly as one of the anonymous sources for the story, and recanted. He did this live on camera during a television interview with Anderson Cooper … on CNN.

In fact, it now looks as if Davis is making an apology tour, since, in just the past three days, he’s recanted both the Trump Tower story and another story for which it appears he was a key anonymous source.

Davis has gone on to recant a story in which he claimed Trump also had advance knowledge of the Russian hacking of Democratic emails. Davis had claimed this was another thing that Cohen looked forward to telling Mueller.

And it gets worse. Just as several media outlets began driving a new narrative based on leaks that claim Mueller’s special counsel team has “evidence” that places Cohen in Prague in 2016, here came Davis in several televised interviews to categorically state Cohen had never been to Prague, and not only that, all the other allegations about his client that appear in Christopher Steele’s dossier are also not true.

If you are counting, that’s three major narratives the mainstream media have been pushing hard that Davis has called into question in just one week.

Even more problematic for CNN: In its report on the Trump Tower meeting, the network stated that Davis refused to comment on the story when CNN gave him a chance to respond to … himself. It stated, “Contacted by CNN, one of Cohen’s lawyers, Lanny Davis, declined to comment.”

Got that? The guy who gave CNN this “scoop” off the record about Trump knowing the Trump Tower meeting was going to happen was asked by CNN for comment on the story, and he declined to respond to himself on the record. You can’t make it up at this point.

While Davis has publicly apologized several times over the last few days for misleading the reporters in several news stories for which he was an anonymous source, the response CNN has made to this has been truly astonishing.

CNN has yet to issue a retraction or even a correction of the original story. It has updated the false story only once at this point, on the same day the article went up, to add in a few quotes from President Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Guiliani.

The Daily Caller’s news editor, Amber Athey, best summed up the problem with this Aug. 27 tweet:

“CNN can resort to the ‘we’re just reporting on what sources claimed’ defense, but that doesn’t explain why they haven’t reported on or updated with the additional information that calls into serious question what those sources claimed.”

As Chuck Ross, reporter for The Daily Caller, and others have noted with some bemusement, CNN not only will not correct the record, they are actually embargoing any mention of Davis’s public recantation—the one he made on air on their own network.

The television news channel won’t even acknowledge that Davis has changed his tune. Brian Stelter, the host of the CNN program “Reliable Sources,” defiantly stated that CNN was standing behind its reporting on the Trump Tower story despite Davis’s retraction.

This “news” network is so desperate for some kind of payoff to their two-year-long pushing of the Trump–Russia narrative that they can’t let go of their last shred of hope. They want to believe Trump knew about this meeting at Trump Tower, so they’ll stand by the story even after their main source admits he lied to them. This isn’t journalism—this is fanaticism.

CNN should be commended for at last dropping its mask and ending the charade of being any kind of objective, neutral news organization. It’s a propaganda arm of the Democratic National Committee, nothing more.

When a major source you used for a news story later recants what they told you, journalistic ethics should compel you to note this development in your further reporting on that story.

That is, if you have any journalistic ethics. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that CNN does not.

Brian Cates is a political pundit and writer based in southern Texas and the author of “Nobody Asked For My Opinion … But Here It Is Anyway!” He can be reached on Twitter at @drawandstrike

https://www.theepochtimes.com/cnn-boldly-decides-it-no-longer-needs-reliable-sources_2635120.html

Reliable sources ? Who CNN? Phuleeze more like FNN FAKE NEWS NETWORK

 

[Anbarandy]

There's NO second source. Lanny and Mike are what they built this house of cards upon. All's CNN doing is trying to "save" what's left of Carl's credibility. He's been on CNN for weeks pushing this "scoop', admitting, after all this effort, that the great Bernstein has been but a pathetic hack with an ax to grind might just sink the domestic CNN to a below recovery level.

Aaah, is poor widdle jcpro upset that Carl Bernstein has been stating the obvious truth about the Traitor in Chief for well over a year now?

You must remember that Bernstein knows what the stench of a criminal President smells like.

When the Democrats take the House in November, it is only to get worse for Trump and yourself.

So buckle up, buttercup.

 

[jcpro]

Aaah, is poor widdle jcpro upset that Carl Bernstein has been stating the obvious truth about the Traitor in Chief for well over a year now?

You must remember that Bernstein knows what the stench of a criminal President smells like.

When the Democrats take the House in November, it is only to get worse for Trump and yourself.

So buckle up, buttercup.

So, you're ok with Carl lying. Interesting. We have another case of I'd rather lose with Pompey than win with Caesar. You better pray for that blue wave to materialise.

 

[oldjones]

There's NO second source. Lanny and Mike are what they built this house of cards upon. All's CNN doing is trying to "save" what's left of Carl's credibility. He's been on CNN for weeks pushing this "scoop', admitting, after all this effort, that the great Bernstein has been but a pathetic hack with an ax to grind might just sink the domestic CNN to a below recovery level.

So you say — an anonymous source. Just as you don't believe CNN, I see no reason to believe you.

Unlike you and CNN, whether you 'retract' your statement is of no interest to me, as I get better information elsewhere. And again unlike you guys and CNN, I see no purpose in arguing over a source I don't trust, about a foreign country story, here in Canada.

It's all repetitious name-calling so far. If you're changing no one's thinking, the effort's wasted. Try facts.

 

[Anbarandy]

So, you're ok with Carl lying. Interesting. We have another case of I'd rather lose with Pompey than win with Caesar. You better pray for that blue wave to materialise.

I find it more akin to when Rob, supported by his bro Doug and Mammo, accused Toronto City Council of "invading Kuwait".

Same mindset, insane in the membrane.

 

[shack]

DUMB, DEAF and BLIND.

We can call them Tommy trumpers. There is nothing physically wrong with them. It is all psychosomatic.

 

[shack]

When the Democrats take the House in November, it is only to get worse for Trump and yourself.

That is when the Congressional GOP rats will jump ship. That is what is left of them.

Once their jobs are threatened, they will suddenly find a moral high ground.

 

[bver_hunter]

Reliable sources ? Who CNN? Phuleeze more like FNN FAKE NEWS NETWORK

FNN=Fox News Network=Fake News Network. So let's get the acronym right!!

 

[Conil]

Looks like



Like Cnn

 

[bver_hunter]

Again FNN stands for Fox News Network more in line with FAKE NEWS NETWORK!!

 

[Bud Plug]

CNN does a pretty good job of covering hurricanes, tornadoes and other major weather stories. Worthless, however, for political coverage (except, if you're like me, you've just got to know what crazy spin they are going to generate out of something Trump said to fill a whole week of air time!).

 

[oldjones]

CNN does a pretty good job of covering hurricanes, tornadoes and other major weather stories. Worthless, however, for political coverage (except, if you're like me, you've just got to know what crazy spin they are going to generate out of something Trump said to fill a whole week of air time!).

There! I knew someone would eventually come up with a passable reason for watching it in the first place.

We know why Trump's obsessed with it, because he's always been a media-idiot, and too shameless to bother hiding it. But the othjer supposedly intelligent adults …? Can't they read?

 

[Bud Plug]

There! I knew someone would eventually come up with a passable reason for watching it in the first place.

We know why Trump's obsessed with it, because he's always been a media-idiot, and too shameless to bother hiding it. But the othjer supposedly intelligent adults …? Can't they read?

Reading is a poor substitute for live video of tornadoes, either those created by nature, or those concocted in the editorial rooms of CNN.

 

[Conil]

CNN does a pretty good job of covering hurricanes, tornadoes and other major weather stories. Worthless, however, for political coverage (except, if you're like me, you've just got to know what crazy spin they are going to generate out of something Trump said to fill a whole week of air time!).

Its true, they're dishonest otherwise. Fake news