Could the Counterfeit News Network get any lower in its reportage and coverage of the day’s events?
Not only has the network’s representation taken a beating in the last couple of years (or 20 years), it refuses to change its “journalistic” practices. And it has gotten significantly worse in the last couple of days.
Let’s take it one by one:
First, last week’s indictments of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities suggested that Moscow trolls ran a Facebook page that supported President Donald Trump and opposed Hillary Clinton in Florida.
To show off his journalistic prowess, CNN special investigations unit reporter Drew Griffin decided to confront an elderly lady at her Florida home and interrogate her involvement in a social media account that may have been operated by Russians. She was obviously upset and overwhelmed by television crews on her property, but Griffin did not relent. It was a sad incident of doxxing.
Here is the clip:
Second, desperate for a news story and to confirm their Russian paranoia, CNN’s international team decided to go dumpster diving. It was a sad scene to witness.
Here is the clip:
Third, morning anchor Chris Cuomo retweeted an article “I WAS ABLE TO BUY AN AR-15 IN 5 MINUTES.” The headline generated attention, but the rest of the story was false: the kid did not fill in paperwork or even buy the AR-15.
That didn’t stop Cuomo from retweeting that fake news.
Hey, @ChrisCuomo from CNN. Saw the article you retweeted: “I WAS ABLE TO BUY AN AR-15 IN 5 MINUTES”
Did you see the part where he admits to neither filling out the necessary paperwork (which would initiate the background check) NOR purchasing the AR-15? Weird. pic.twitter.com/wLfaiKCqaM
— Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) February 21, 2018
But when he was called out on it, Cuomo tweeted:
Isn’t the point that the kid’s age and lack of ID wasn’t a deterrent? and this isn’t all gun shops. Place I bought my shotgun basically goes farther than law requires and makes judgments about whom to sell to. Point is the system should be better https://t.co/sL1j0hYtTg
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) February 21, 2018
Cuomo then got into an exchange with National Review’s Charles Cooke. In the end, Cuomo fought a strawman argument, completely changing the topic of conversation.
Wow. It’s pretty bad to be CNN these days.
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