How CNN’s Fake News Machine Ran | Frontpage Mag

How CNN’s Fake News Machine Ran | Frontpage Mag:
"In April, media types were crowing that CNN had brought in Eric Lichtblau who had been, in the Washington Post’s words, at “the forefront of the New York Times’s reporting on the relationship between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.”
It was “an investment in investigative reporting and the sprawling Russia story”.
It didn’t take long for the investigative investment to sprawl badly.
Lichtblau has resigned from CNN in a growing scandal over a Fake News story about a Trump associate.
"Eric will guide our coverage and thinking," Lex Haris, executive editor of CNN Investigates, had boasted.
"And when he’s onto a investigation, he’ll still be reporting and writing too.”
Not for long. And Haris has joined Lichtblau on the unemployment line after the Fake News scandal.
CNN Investigates had been announced after President Trump’s inauguration.
Its hit pieces had followed the same pattern as the Scaramucci attack that would be its undoing.
Go after a personality tipped for a job with the new administration.
CNN Investigates had previously targeted Monica Crowley and Sheriff Clarke with plagiarism accusations.
But this time around, CNN’s anti-Trump unit had made a big mistake.
Unlike K-File’s petty harassment of Trump associates, the Scaramucci hit piece came from the heavier hitters poached by CNN from mainstream media papers who were supposed to bring down Trump.
The men behind the disaster were no lightweights..."
Read on!