29 June, 2017
Indeed, according to undercover video released by Project Veritas on Monday, CNN CEO Jeff Zucker is telling his employees to keep focusing on the Trump-Russia collusion story because it drives ratings. Bonifield has worked for CNN as a journalist and producer for 15 years. She's concerned about other people getting facts wrong, yet she's promoting the video of a man known for deception even though she's unsure of its accuracy. "Our goal is to expose the real motivations behind the decision-making process at our dominant media corporations", he said.
Yesterday afternoon James O'Keefe released a new video as part of his "Project Veritas" initiative.
CNN retracted the story on Friday, apologised to a pro-Trump investor named in it, and pledged greater editorial scrutiny of all stories related to Russian Federation.
But if the management at CNN is willing to report any unfounded accusation for the goal of boosting ratings, there is a defective atmosphere in its organization and Jeff Zucker should be held responsible.
In a subsequent tweet, Trump also broadly labeled ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post (you know, pretty much all of America's major, longstanding news institutions) "Fake News".
Jones insists that he did not mean that believes that the allegations that Trump adviser colluded with Russians during the campaign. "They are feeding their audience a false narrative in order to get ratings".
"The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger". "More people are starting to have suspicions about the media and that gap is widening". "All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you're just like, 'That's adorable".
CNN has led the drumbeat of news coverage focusing on allegations that the president and his campaign aides improperly colluded with Russian Federation to swing the November election in his favor.
Bonifield noted that "a lot of liberal CNN viewers" want to see criticism against Trump, but they did not want to hold Obama up to scrutiny. "I think Democrats are fooling ourselves if we think that something is going to come out of this investigation that is somehow going to end the Trump Presidency and make everything better".
"Can you give us a question since you're attacking us?"
The failure to follow proper procedures is what led to the resignations, the CNN executive said.
The editorial standards of CNN and other news outlets need more checks and balances in the system, and journalists should exercise more prudence, the Trump advisor said. "Our CIA is doing s**t all the time".
Steve Lunetta is a resident of Santa Clarita and is stunned to think that the skirt-chasers at Fox News are now the good guys.
A day later CNN retracted the story and apologized, and this week the three journalists responsible for it resigned from the cable news giant. Though O'Keefe had claimed Project Veritas was financially independent, the Village Voice determined that Thiel had given thousands to the filmmaker.
The problem is that the United States mainstream media is by no means non-aligned.
O'Keefe, who positions himself as a renegade battling against a "broken, rotten media machine", hypes the Bonifield video as proof of journalistic malfeasance, and promises future installments.
