Quote (IceMage @ Jan 11 2017 03:24am)
Luckily if the story is found to be inaccurate, CNN and other media outlets will report on that, unlike real fake news sites like infowars that double down on their bullshit when called out.
And yet, CNN will have printed a fake news story, destroying its credibility and the left's narrative. You can't simply take that back with an apology. It means heads have to roll.
Do you remember what happened when CBS ran a fake news hoax about George W. Bush in the leadup to the '04 election? It ended Dan Rather's career among many underlings, it even made a shitty movie starring eric forman
Fake news sites like infowars have no credibility and nothing to lose, breitbart can manipulate footage and try to entrap planned parenthood all they want, they don't even have the veneer of legitimacy and they know it.
CNN putting its lot in with buzzfeed and hopping on the water sports train is a black day in journalism and this story is going fun places, whether it miraculously gets confirmed or gets debunked, someones paying the piper.
Where we're standing now, its a question of how colossal this fuckup is, is it the fault of the national press, or is it biblical proportions with mccain and the cia implicated too?
Because if the CIA was involved, the CIA most certainly can't call backsies and say they were wrong and report on that and the past few weeks of trump-russia headlines gets defenestrated
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jan 11 2017 03:41am
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