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CNN Pure Garbage Special Report on Russia


By Stephen Lendman
stephenlendman.org
6-27-17

 
Like all other major Western media, CNN features press agent journalism for powerful interests, not the real thing.

Its programming is an embarrassment to truthful, full-disclosure, uncensored reporting. It consistently violates core journalistic ethics.

Professional integrity is its cornerstone, deplorably absent Ain its programming.

The Radio-Television News Directors Association Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct stresses public trust, credibility, accuracy, truth-telling, avoiding bias, fairness, integrity, independence, and accountability.

Western media bias is notorious, CNN the bottom of a sordid barrel among so-called television news channels. It’s hard understanding why anyone believes they can be informed by following it.

Misinformation, disinformation, Big Lies and fake news are its specialities - news consumers carpet-bombed with it daily, especially anything related to war and peace, Trump bashing for the wrong reasons, and Russia bashing for fake ones.

A likely authentic Project Veritas sting video caught caught CNN supervising producer John Bonifield red-handed, calling the channel’s so-called Russiagate coverage BS, aired ad nauseam to help ratings.

He was heard saying “the president (Trump) is probably right to say, like, look you are witch-hunting me. You have no smoking gun. You have no real proof.”

Nor does any credible evidence suggest Russian US election hacking. The persistent accusation is phony, a Big Lie.

Days earlier, a CNN reporter and two editors were sacked for getting caught red-handed reporting a fake news story, claiming “Congress was investigating a Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.” It was willful deception. CNN was forced to retract the story.

Its latest outrage aired Tuesday night - a fake news “documentary” called “The Russian Connection: Inside the Attack on Democracy,” reported by CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto.

From 2011 - 2013, he was chief of staff for US ambassador Gary Locke in Beijing. Earlier he was a London-based ABC News foreign correspondent, before that a PBS producer.

His book titled “Against Us: The New Face of America’s Enemies in the Muslim World” is pure Islamophobic rubbish.

His so-called “Russian Connection” special report was right out of the CIA playbook - beginning-to-end unjustifiable bashing, willful deception instead of responsible truth-telling.

He rehashed old discredited accusations of nonexistent Russian US election hacking, a CNN advance promo saying:

His report “recounts and tracks the story of Russian hacks targeting the 2016 presidential election from the very beginning to the investigations still underway today and to new fears of Russian attacks on upcoming US elections.”

It’s “the first comprehensive telling on television of Russia’s attack on the 2016 race, with jarring lessons for American leaders and the public about more attacks to come.”

His hyped report was fake news, a CNN specialty, material no respectable editor would touch.

No Russian US election hacking occurred. Not a shred of evidence suggests otherwise. Claims otherwise are Big Lies.