CNN’s blockbuster July 26 story
– that Michael Cohen intended to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller
that he was present when Donald Trump was told in advance about his
son’s Trump Tower meeting with various Russians – includes a key
statement about its sourcing that credible reporting now suggests were
designed to have misled its audience. Yet CNN simply refuses to address
the serious ethical and journalistic questions raised about its conduct.
The substance of the CNN story itself regarding Cohen – which made
headline news all over all the world and which CNN hyped as a
“bombshell” – has now been retracted by other news outlets that
originally purported to “confirm” CNN’s story. That’s because the
anonymous source for this confirmation, Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis, now
admits that, in essence, his “confirmation” was false. As a result, both
the Washington Post and the NY Post outed Davis as their anonymous source and then effectively retracted their stories “confirming” parts of CNN’s report.
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Source: The Intercept_
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