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Let the ax fall…

Via Daily Caller:

    Three CNN employees have resigned from the company for their role in pushing a botched Trump-Russia story that claimed a member of the Trump transition team was under investigation.

    Reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and executive editor Lex Haris all resigned from their positions following a company-wide investigation into the single-sourced story that was quickly debunked, The Washington Post first reported. CNN quickly followed up with a story of their own on the resignations. Lichtblau reportedly oversaw the false story, while Haris headed up CNN’s investigative unit.

    “In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” CNN’s coverage quotes a company spokesman as saying.


http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/26/three-cnn-employees-resign-over-botched-trump-russia-story/

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2017, 10:25:59 PM »
When was the last time Communist News Network (aka Clinton News Network) ever REDACTED a major political hit piece against a conservative and FIRED THREE EXECUTIVES in the same week for printing said communist propaganda?

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2017, 06:04:50 AM »
Dems Trapped by Their Russia Conspiracy

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOYVhZqoT1o[/youtube]

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2017, 06:17:16 AM »
“Are You Proud Megyn Kelly?” HANNITY EXPOSES FAKE NEWS CHIEFS

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2017, 06:46:29 AM »
CNN Faced $100 Million Lawsuit Over Fake Russia Story

Very fake news CNN was facing a $100 million lawsuit for a story they were forced to retract linking Trump’s transition team to a Russian investment fund.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/cnn-faced-100-million-lawsuit-fake-russia-story/

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2017, 12:26:00 PM »
Chart: How Much Time Has Media Spent On Trying To Connect Trump To Russia?



http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/27/study-broadcast-networks-obsessed-with-russia/

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2017, 06:37:53 AM »
CNN Had A Terrible Month -- Here's Everything That's Gone Wrong

The last 30 days have been nothing short of a public relations nightmare for CNN.

The network is reeling after a brutal stretch that has seen two hosts taken off-air, one story retracted and another rewritten, accusations of staged protests, the resignations of three key employees and most recently, an ongoing series of undercover videos meant to portray CNN as misleading the public about the Trump-Russia stories that have dominated media coverage of the president so far.

Late on Tuesday, May 30, TMZ published images of CNN’s New Years Eve co-host, Kathy Griffin, taking part in a photoshoot with a mock severed head of President Trump. The story quickly blew up. Influential news aggregator Matt Drudge placed CNN’s ties to Griffin front and center on his site, the Drudge Report.



http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/28/cnns-month-long-nightmare/


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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2017, 06:39:10 AM »
Late Monday night, conservative activist James O’Keefe released hidden-camera video that showed a CNN producer, John Bonifield, saying that Trump was “probably right” that the Trump-Russia story was a “witch hunt.”

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/27/cnn-producer-calls-trump-russia-story-mostly-bullsht-says-ceo-encouraged-russia-coverage-video/


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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2017, 06:41:18 AM »
O’Keefe kept the focus on CNN by releasing on Wednesday a video of CNN commentator Van Jones describing the Trump-Russia story as a “big nothingburger.”  http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/28/undercover-video-shows-cnns-van-jones-calling-russia-story-a-nothing-burger-video/

Drudge immediately made the video the lead of his site, captioning it: “O’KEEFE STRIKES AGAIN.”



CNN in hell
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2017/06/27/20170627_235203.htm

Also on Wednesday, the New York Post kept alive the scandal around CNN’s Scaramucci story, running an exclusive that claimed the network pulled the article after the Trump associate threatened them with a $100 million lawsuit.
http://nypost.com/2017/06/27/cnn-staffers-didnt-resign-over-retracted-story-they-got-fired/

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2017, 06:15:54 AM »
CONSEQUENCES: CNN’s Ratings Plummet In June

CNN is beginning to pay a price for their actions. The constant attacks on Trump and people who support him are turning off viewers who are voting with their remote controls.

The Blaze reports:

CNN gets huge reality check in the ratings department after weeks of journalism embarrassments

CNN really didn’t have a good month of June.

First, three journalists resigned for publishing a story last week that connected a Trump transition team member to a Russian investment bank. The story hinged on a single anonymous source and was later proven false.

Then Project Vertias, led by journalist James O’Keefe, released a number of undercover videos purportedly trying to further damage the journalistic credibility and reputation of CNN.

These numbers should have some people at CNN headquarters to be very concerned:

On Tuesday, CNN’s primetime viewership peaked at only 886,000 overall viewers, whereas MSNBC peaked at 2.77M and Fox News peaked at 2.79M viewers. In the coveted 25-54-year-old demographic, CNN was only able to amass 308,000 viewers at its peak.

On Wednesday, it was much of the same. CNN peaked at 908,000 viewers where Fox and MSNBC both peaked over 2 million. The 25-54-year-old demographic was just as dismal.

    CNN's total viewership from Wednesday. That their primetime lineup is all under 1 million is something else…this a major issue. pic.twitter.com/U1WSQwHRoE

    — Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 30, 2017

People are losing patience fast.

CNN needs to make some changes quickly if they want to reverse this trend.

http://americanlookout.com/consequences-cnns-ratings-plummet-in-june/

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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2017, 11:45:20 AM »
 #FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017
NOW HE BODY-SLAMS CNN!
MEDIA FREAKOUT
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680/video/1


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Re: Three CNN Employees Resign Over Botched Trump-Russia Story
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2017, 11:54:18 AM »