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irstupid on 30 June 2017
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Tulipanzo said:
irstupid said:

If you read more post, you would know that someone else also said basically the same thing as this health guy. Someone who is a normal big time speaker on CNN.

Also they just fired 3 people for writing an article about one of Trumps guys and Russia, and at least 2 of them were pulitzer prize winners.

This all in the last week.

So say what you will about Trump, but CNN is definately not a network you should be defending right now.

I struggle to find how reading more of this thread wouldn't be a waste of time, at least if your post is at all representative of what I can expect.

First, someone [...] who is a normal big time speaker on CNN, is appearently so famous that he/she isn't mentioned by the OP or by you, right now.
However, I should trust you that it's really bad, because producers/speaker are the one that invent the news. I didn't know that.

Second, you talk about three people that were fired (they resigned, but who cares about context), at least two of which (one, oops) were Pulitzer winner.
Now, ignoring the factual errors in your post about journalistic integrity, you also fail to mention that CNN issued a public apology to Scaramucci (because I know how to Google things, thank you very much) saying it didn't meet their editorial standards. An apology he accepted, saying "they did the right thing".
At this stage nobody but the biggest cretins on the web, so obviously that includes Trump, are even criticizing them for it. 

So, your argument boils down to: CNN publishes fake news, and we know this because they said an article didn't meet their standard and they got rid of the journalists involved. Them admitting their fault publicly and apologizing shows they can't be trusted.  Also someone else that was important did a bad thing.

Now, I don't get my news coverage from CNN, but I see what's going on.
You're trying to use a company operating the way it should, by issuing apologies and by hiring people that don't agree with everything on the channel, to try and defend your incompetent failure of a president from something he isn't capable of handling: criticism in general, questioning on Russia in particular. 
There is a solid basis for criticism of mainstream media, but I won't let mine be co-opted by your quest to look less shit.

P.S. I'm humbled that on a thread which has devolved into Trump propaganda and antisemitism appearently I'm priority number one for you.

1. I don't watch CNN, so don't know names.  Hell I don't know any newsperson's name. I figure as soon as you know someone's name they are too famous and thus can hardly be trusted. But it was some black guy who speaks during their normal main hours. Someone who speaks on tv about Trump. A newscaster, not some CNN health guy. So say what you want about the relevance of a random CNN health guys opinion about Trump, but this guys opinion is what we see on TV.

2. All I saw was some video that said 2 of them were. If it was wrong, then so be it. Point is, my pulitzer prize winners knowledge goes as deep as Lois Lane. I'm under the impression that this is a prestigous award that should be given to only those that are of great skill and ethics. For one to resign (resign in this situation is the same as firing. It's like Nixon stepping down.) starts to give that award less meaning. It's like Obama winning the peace price before he even stepped into office, or was it like a month in. Either way, it demeans the accomplishment/award.

3. My argument is nothing about fake news. It's about CNN jumping hte gun and publishing click bait articles to get raitings. No apoligy or retraction can fix that. This is not some youtuber. This is supposed to be a national news station that is held to a higher degree. People of the highest caliber of education and skill shoudl be working here and trying to let the rest of the united stated or even world know of the news. Not some propoganda bullshit and hit peice or ratings grab. Whether its an error or fake news, neither shoudl happen. They need to do their homeworkd better. YOu don't write an article accusing the president of the united states of treason unless you have concrete proof. (yes this wasn't about trump directly, but indirectly. And as someone said, the top 7 stories on CNN today were about 1 trump tweet today. That is not the type of calliber I woudl excpect from a national news station. Anchorman 2 summed up our news stations perfectly.