admits on a hidden camera that Russia is fake news, calls it "bullshit" and says that Trump is right to call it a "witch hunt." He says if there was anything there, it would've been leaked already because leaking is all anyone is doing in DC. He then says that CNN is willingly abandoning all journalistic ethics to hype the story for ratings:
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“My boss, I shouldn’t say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he goes and he was just like I want you to know what we are up against here,” Bonifield is seen saying. “And he goes, just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with it let’s get back to Russia.”
When asked by the Project Veritas investigator if it was the CEO of CNN—according to O’Keefe they were referring to CNN president Jeff Zucker—who made that determination, Bonifield is heard saying: “Yeah.”
“So, even the climate accords, he was like a day or so it’s okay but we’re moving back to Russia,” Bonifield says in the video.
“It’s a business,” Bonifield says in the video. “People are like the media has an ethical … But, all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable. This is a business. Especially cable news. Cable news isn’t the New York Times, and it’s not even like NBC News. I mean NBC News still gets 20 million viewers a night. Cable news is getting a million. So, they got to do what they got to do to make their money.”
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Frank, how does it feel to be a manipulated CNN viewer?
Link: https://youtu.be/jdP8TiKY8dE
CNN Producer: "All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you're just like, that's adorable. That's adorable. This is a business."
"Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN (Jeff Zucker) said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we're done with that, let's get back to Russia."
"I haven't seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime." He continues: "I just feel like they don't really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof. ... it's mostly bullshit right now."
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"To report not on facts, but instead on narratives that yield high ratings, is exactly the definition of fake news," said James O'Keefe. "We said we are going after the media, and there is a lot more to come."
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As if the NY Times is some standard of anything any longer.
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.....I'm sure you'll have healthcare failure to go after soon (although remember what happened in the House after the first effort failed).
What happpened? Oh, they passed the mean bill. That does nothing to cut premiums. At least the Senate bill does something there.
...and i have read a lot of dumb things on the board. Nobody even knows wtf your talking about.
Have you published your criteria (whatever it is) yet at the Kos?
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And this episode follows an embarrassing correction CNN was forced to issue earlier this month when several of its highest-profile on-air personalities asserted – based on anonymous sources – that James Comey, in his Congressional testimony, was going to deny Trump’s claim that the FBI Director assured him he was not the target of any investigation.
When Comey confirmed Trump’s story, CNN was forced to correct its story. “An earlier version of this story said that Comey would dispute Trump’s interpretation of their conversations. But based on his prepared remarks, Comey outlines three conversations with the President in which he told Trump he was not personally under investigation,” said the network.
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Is yours that Fox is somehow different from the rest of cable media?
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Weird, I seem to recall someone making that argument here...