DC: Higher-ups at CNN are cracking down after another botched story regarding President Trump and Russia.
The network retracted and deleted a story late last week that claimed Anthony Scaramucci, who served on Trump’s transition team, was under FBI investigation for a meeting he had with a Russian executive. That story, which was based off of one unnamed congressional source, was false.
“No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason,” CNNMoney executive editor Rich Barbieri said in an email obtained by BuzzFeed. “This applies to social, video, editorial, and MoneyStream. No exceptions.” The “Jason” referred to in the email is a vice president at CNN, according to BuzzFeed. more
Awaiting the day it becomes the Closed News Network.
It’d be a hoot if CNN had its own little deep state, and management had to drain their own swamp to stay in business.
Try the original rules. They were called journalistic ethics.
Corsair News Network, truth and facts be damned matie! Aaarrrrrg.
Matie : a young fat herring with roe or milt incompletely developed = snowflakes.
Look at CNN’s Incredible Shrinking Viewership.
When you subtract all those airport gates and doctor’s waiting rooms and other public spaces where CNN is on by default, the number of actual viewers voluntarily tuned to CNN each day is minuscule.
CNN is diminishing the way Hemingway described going from rich to bankruptcy:
“It happened slowly at first, too slow to notice, and then suddenly, all at once.”
@Inigo, you slander pirates. They had some ethics, these liars have none.
I know I may be naive, but perhaps CNN management is realizing that Trump is right about “fake news.”
Now, all CNN stories will have to have legs for at least a week before they make a retraction.
Why is CNN on airport TV? Just turn it off, it radicalizes people in the worst way.
I suspect that the memo and the “leak” are just ploys to try to show people that CNN is really, really trying to do things like a real network (not that the others are much better). I’ll bet that little bit of theatre came down courtesy of Jeff Zucker the one time head honco at NBC (I think) before he was canned. Don’t believe it.
The only thing Scaramucci is guilty of is doing the Fandango.
On any given night CNN’s total national audience is roughly the size of Houston at best. And at worst, it’s often smaller than Jacksonville Florida.
Why any advertiser would ever pay one dime more for 30 seconds on CNN than they’d pay for equivalent eyeballs on local Channel 4 in those markets defies business logic.
Unplug the network and bankrupt them.