What makes CNN’s reporting fake news is that they reported their story as if it were irrefutable fact. They had no documented proof of such accusations, but chose to not add disclaimers during their reporting.
The CNN story was put together by four CNN journalists: Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper and Brian Rokus.
Borger said this on CNN Tuesday:
“Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he’s asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be,” said Borger, the network’s chief political analyst. “He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so.”
ABC News has still failed to correct their story on this same issue at the time this post was written.
The only way for CNN, ABC, and others to be vindicated is if Comey’s prepared statement is a lie.
CNN and other outlets have been increasingly reliant upon anonymous sources over the past few years. Nearly all of their ‘scandal’ reporting on President Trump has been from anonymous sources. Those scandals, so far, have all been refuted, debunked, or lack any real evidence.
In journalism, anonymous sources are notoriously unreliable. Any journalist or reporter who says otherwise is seriously lacking in credibility. If they don’t provide documented proof, or physical evidence, they should not be considered solid sources. It has always been that way with real journalism. Modern major media has abandoned this basic journalistic standard in favor of grade school rumors. Unfortunately, people’s confirmation bias steers them to believe unsubstantiated hearsay.
When you are a US Senator, you will meet with foreign ambassadors regularly as a normal part of your job. A single term in the Senate could have hundreds of meetings with foreign ambassadors. Again, it is part of their job.
A long debunked narrative that Jeff Sessions somehow violated protocol, was hiding meetings, or broke the law (as some asserted) is still alive and well and CNN.
CNN used the two already reported meetings between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyac as the basis for a news story on the Attorney General.
Sessions did not mention the meetings, which took place as part of Sessions’ official duties as a United States Senator, on his SF-86, the disclosure form for those applying for “top secret” clearance. This fact was, by CNN’s own account, freely volunteered by the Justice Department.
DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told CNN that Sessions did not list any of the dozens of ambassadors he met over years of being a senator.
This is completely fake news. Politicians and government bureaucrats from both parties defended Sessions on this baseless accusation.
Journalists and pundits spread fake news on Twitter Sunday that Ivanka Trump was engaged in pay-to-play with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu were overheard discussing their shared disdain for the media shortly after Trump arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday.
“We couldn’t open it until we had signed for it,” says Rose. “On the label it said two items were inside. When we had signed and opened it up we found the cheaper £540 sword badly damaged because of poor packaging, and a brick. The other £1,400 sword, for which he had been trying to barter, was not there.”
Overall, this seems like an accidental, but potentially positive effect of human activity – the barrier protects the Earth from potentially harmful radiation.
Tea Party groups nationwide will be holding rallies on Tax day. Our rally will be a sign waving event at the intersection of S Michigan and Wayne St in downtown South Bend, just down the street from the local IRS office. We will be making signs at our Thursday, April 13 meeting. Please plan on joining us for an hour.
A professor at Montana State University has filed a lawsuit against the local Walmart because an employee allegedly typed “CLEAN TOILETS” — apparently in all-capital letters — as the professor’s job on his fishing license.
“So, three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn’t use the NSA. He didn’t use the CIA. He didn’t use the FBI and he didn’t use the Department of Justice. He used GCHQ. What’s the heck is the GCHQ? That’s the initials for the British spying agency. They have 24/7 access to the NSA data base. So, by simply having two people go to them saying President Obama needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump, conversations involving President-elect Trump, he is able to get it. And there is no American fingerprints on this.”
After Judge Andrew Napolitano was suspended from Fox News for reporting that former President Barack Obama used British intelligence to help spy on Trump Tower, CNN has been on a non-stop attack.
British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed on those communications to their US counterparts, US congressional and law enforcement and US and European intelligence sources tell CNN.
After student journalists at a Kansas high school got a big scoop on their incoming principal’s credentials, she resigned from the $93,000-a-year position.
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin played a clip of Hillary Clinton slamming Trump’s policies on refugees, and those who were expecting support of Clinton’s statement were sorely disappointed:
The Solar FREAKIN’ Roadways project generated an average of 0.62 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per day since it began publicly posting power data in late March. To put that in perspective, the average microwave or blow drier consumes about 1 kWh per day.
