(Mike Adams) If you hope to understand what’s actually happening in the world around you — and why half the country seems so chronically misinformed and delusional — you must know the details of what just happened at CNN on Friday.Related:
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Mike Adams, December 10th, 2017
CNN was just caught in the most epic fake news fail we’ve ever witnessed, pushing out an utterly false piece of
fake news that got a crucial date wrong, then using the wrong date to falsely declare that Trump colluded with Wikileaks on behalf of the Russians. In one of the most embarrassing and pathetic examples of
shoddy journalismthe world has ever seen, CNN news-tards hyperventilated over the fake news and spread their falsehoods to millions of readers and viewers across multiple news networks, instilling utterly false information into the minds of Americans.
This continued for nearly a full day until they realized they got a key fact wrong which invalidated the entire story. But instead of apologizing and correcting the news, most journalists swept it under the rug and pretended nothing happened, leaving millions of news consumers with factually wrong information that most of them still believe to be true. This is how the left-wing media operates now: Push fake news, refuse to retract it, then move on to the next fake news story. This is nothing less than the weaponization of fake news to overthrow the results of a democratic election.
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald — the journalist who broke the Edward Snowden story — details this epic fake news fail in a truly bombshell article that every intelligent person should review. It’s entitled, “
The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened.”
This is one of the best pieces of critical thinking journalism you’ll ever find. I’m reprinting part of that story here and urging you to share this with everyone you know. Truth be told, the mainstream media in America has been weaponized against the public, and it only serves now to cause fear, delusion and mania among the voters through the deliberate publication of wildly false and misleading news. The internet gatekeepers, meanwhile — such as Facebook, Google and Twitter — censor the independent media in order to grant the fake news legacy media a monopoly over all narratives… even if those narratives are grossly false and maliciously fabricated (as you’ll see below).
Here’s part of the story from Greenwald, via
The Intercept:
The U.S. Media Yesterday Suffered its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages: Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened
FRIDAY WAS ONE of the most embarrassing days for the U.S. media in quite a long time. The humiliation orgy was kicked off by CNN, with MSNBC and CBS close behind, with countless pundits, commentators and operatives joining the party throughout the day. By the end of the day, it was clear that several of the nation’s largest and most influential news outlets had spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened.
The spectacle began on Friday morning at 11:00 am EST, when the Most Trusted Name in News™ spent 12 straight minutes on air flamboyantly hyping an exclusive bombshell report that seemed to prove that WikiLeaks, last September, had secretly offered the Trump campaign, even Donald Trump himself, special access to the DNC emails before they were published on the internet. As CNN sees the world, this would prove collusion between the Trump family and WikiLeaks and, more importantly, between Trump and Russia, since the U.S. intelligence community regards WikiLeaks as an “arm of Russian intelligence,” and therefore, so does the U.S. media.
This entire revelation was based on
an email which CNN strongly implied it had exclusively obtained and had in its possession. The email was sent by someone named “Michael J. Erickson” – someone nobody had heard of previously and whom CNN could not identify – to Donald Trump, Jr., offering a decryption key and access to DNC emails that WikiLeaks had “uploaded.” The email was a smoking gun, in CNN’s extremely excited mind, because it was dated September 4 – ten days before WikiLeaks began promoting access to those emails online – and thus proved that the Trump family was being offered special, unique access to the DNC archive: likely by WikiLeaks and the Kremlin.
It’s impossible to convey with words what a spectacularly devastating scoop CNN believed it had, so it’s necessary to watch it for yourself to see the tone of excitement, breathlessness and gravity the network conveyed as they clearly believed they were delivering a near-fatal blow on the Trump/Russia collusion story:
There was just one small problem with this story: it was fundamentally false, in the most embarrassing way possible. Hours after CNN broadcast its story – and then hyped it over and over and over – the Washington Post
reported that CNN got the key fact of the story wrong.
