CNN: Decades of "Fake News"
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2017/06/14/cnn-decades-fake-news
Donald Trump's repeated branding of CNN as "fake news" may have been born in its biased 2016 campaign coverage, but the truth is CNN has peddled inaccurate reporting with an agenda for at least three decades.
From former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, in 1991, passing along Iraqi war propaganda of allied forces bombing a "baby milk plant" to CNN executive Eason Jordan, in 2005, accusing U.S. soldiers of targeting journalists to CNN contributor Donna Brazile feeding townhall questions to the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, there is a long history of news fakery at the oldest 24-hour cable news outlet.
The following are just some of the most prominent examples of CNN's "fake news" over the years, as culled from the MRC's archives: ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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