Project Veritas:
Project Veritas has released a video of CNN Producer John Bonifield who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that there is no proof to CNN's Russia narrative.This is where CNN has stepped over the line from "news organization" to "propaganda organization". They are no longer reporting the news, but making it.
"I mean, it's mostly bullshit right now," Bonifield says. "Like, we don't have any giant proof."
He confirms that the driving factor at CNN is ratings:
"It's a business, people are like the media has an ethical phssssss... 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."
According to the CNN Producer, business is booming. "Trump is good for business right now," he concluded.
Bonifield further goes on to explain that the instructions come straight from the top, citing the CEO, Jeff Zucker:
"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."
Bonifield also acknowledged: "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 should not come as a surprise that CNN is not covering this story. They did actually report that James O'Keefe (the founder of Project Veritas) had done an expose on them back in February, where the article claimed, "Given his track record, many consider O'Keefe discredited, and not a serious journalist.".
What is very surprising is that Fox News is NOT covering this. Personally, I picked up this story on both Twitter and Drudge Report. It was also covered by Real Clear Politics, USA Today, and RT (the infamous Russian news website).
However, news sites like ABC News, Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Herald, have been covering the Project Veritas story as an aside to the story about the three CNN reporters being fired for a fake story that CNN published and then had to retract because it was wrong (they called it "poorly sourced", which is "wrong" in layman's terms). In other words, they are happy to report on a competitor's failure, but the Project Veritas story hits a little close to home, especially where it criticizes the mainstream media (MSM) for promoting ratings over news.
But Fox News went a step further in hiding this story. This was their mention, which at least was in their lede story:
Fox News:
The feud between the Trump White House and CNN reached a fever pitch Tuesday during a feisty press briefing where Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed “fake news” and said Americans “deserve something better.”Fox News knows they are in the same boat as CNN, and that Project Veritas could easily turn on them at any time. Frankly, their fears are justified. As is routinely reported on this website, Fox News shows just as much bias as CNN, just in the opposite direction. But in this particular case, neither Fox nor CNN are going to promote this very real news story, because it shows the TRUTH about them.
...Sanders went on to reference an undercover video allegedly showing a CNN producer knocking the network's Russia-Trump coverage.
“There are multiple instances when that outlet has been wrong—there’s a video circulating now, whether it's accurate or not, not sure—but I encourage everyone to take a look at it,” she said. “If it is accurate, I think it’s a disgrace to all of media, to all of journalism.”
To James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, a TRUTH award:
Speaking of the Russia story...
Raw Story:
Sally Yates warned that President Donald Trump had already lowered the standard of conduct that should be expected from — or tolerated by — the chief executive.In other words, Americans should find shocking a story that cannot be proven, and may not in fact be true. While she is right that Americans should demand a standard of ethical behavior from our politicians that goes beyond what the law expressly forbids, that doesn't mean false narratives such as the Russia story should be our standard for moral outrage.
The former acting attorney general, who was ostensibly fired by the president for refusing to defend his controversial travel ban, said Trump had already violated traditional norms — regardless of whether he’d broken any laws, reported The Hill.
“Surely [criminality is] not our bar,” Yates said during a panel discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “That’s not the standard of conduct that we’re looking for from our president or our administration. I mean, It shouldn’t just be whether you’ve committed a felony or not. It should also be whether or not you’re observing the kinds of norms that we’ve been talking about here today.”
...She said the evidence uncovered so far should concern Americans, even if there’s no smoking gun showing collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“There are facts here that should be alarming to us as a country that falls short of facts that would establish a basis for impeachment or for prosecution,” Yates said.
Finally, back on the topic of "fake news"...
The Daily Caller:
Sarah Palin is suing The New York Times for defamation, according to documents filed in federal court Tuesday that were obtained by The Daily Caller.But what is surprising is how much Palin is suing for: $75,000. Whatever the Times is spending on legal fees will probably top any cost of losing.
The lawsuit has to do with an editorial the NYT ran on June 14 that falsely smeared Palin as inciting the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords by a mentally ill man. There is no evidence to support the NYT’s implication that Palin played a role in inciting the Giffords shooting.
What is amazing about this New York Times editorial was what it was about:
The NYT editorial followed the attempted mass assassination of Republican lawmakers by a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter, who espoused anti-Republican rhetoric on his Facebook page and belonged to several anti-GOP groups on Facebook, including one titled, “Terminate The Republican Party.”In other words, the New York Times used a false narrative to justify attempted murder by a Leftist. This is a new low, even for them.
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