{"id":315069,"date":"2017-06-29T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-youre-msm-and-telling-lies-were-watching-you-investigative-group-on-cnn-sting-videos\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:46:46","slug":"if-youre-msm-and-telling-lies-were-watching-you-investigative-group-on-cnn-sting-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-youre-msm-and-telling-lies-were-watching-you-investigative-group-on-cnn-sting-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If you\u2019re MSM and telling lies, we\u2019re watching you\u2019 \u2013 investigative group on CNN sting videos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amid the scandal over two sting videos with CNN employees saying that the Russia narrative is \u201cbull**it\u201d and \u201ca big nothing burger,\u201d a representative of the group that published the videos told RT any mainstream media \u201ctelling lies\u201d could be next.<\/p>\n

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In the first video, CNN Health Supervising Producer John Bonified said, referring to the Russia stories and grounds for the accusations thrown at Moscow on daily basis, \u201cLike, we don\u2019t have any big giant proof. I just feel like they don\u2019t really have it, but they just want to keep digging.\u201d<\/em> The producer added that the channel\u2019s ratings \u201care incredible right now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Project Veritas Communications Director Stephen Gordon told RT that the second video was released to force CNN to face the consequences and admit something is wrong.
Gordon emphasized that in the first video, Bonified says that the CEO of CNN wants to switch from environmental issues back to Russia, because it\u2019s \u201cabout money, ratings, that\u2019s all we cover.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo we knew they were going to come back and say, well, you know, this guy is just a health producer, he has nothing to do with the political side of the CNN. So we released, in response, another video, because no one can argue that Van Jones is not a political commentator for CNN.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The group ultimately wants to expose other media outlets. \u201cWe made a lot of other pundits eat their words,\u201d<\/em> Gordon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just CNN; I want to make that clear. If you\u2019re mainstream media in America and you are telling lies, you are defending people, you are gatekeeping stories, you\u2019re keeping the public from knowing the truth, you\u2019re on our list. We may be in your board room right now, we are watching you,\u201d<\/em> Gordon said.<\/p>\n

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When asked if CNN journalists feel any regret about the potentially groundless coverage, Gordon said, \u201cObviously they do, because this weekend they changed their policy. We know from the video they presented that the policy was \u2018Russia, Russia, Russia,\u2019 and then there was that memo leak that BuzzFeed picked up which said that you needed to get all of the stories on Russia approved by the VP.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo this has changed very, very recently, and this is just one of major controversies going on over the last 72 hours,\u201d<\/em> Gordon said.<\/p>\n

Following the release of the first video, CNN issued a statement emphasizing that the medical producer\u2019s views were his personal opinion, not reflecting the company\u2019s stance. Gordon said, however, that not everything in the video can be justified as private judgment.<\/p>\n

\u201c[CNN CEO] Mr. [Jeff] Zucker\u2019s thoughts are the policy of CNN, that\u2019s how I understand this, maybe they do things differently there, but if my president tells me what to do, I do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Reaction to the sting videos \u201cwas mainly positive except for the mainstream media. It took [them] until the end of the day to come up with something, because it\u2019s very hard to comment on the truth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

READ MORE: 3 CNN journalists behind retracted Russia-Trump story resign<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the first awkward moment for CNN this year. A few days ago, three journalists quit after CNN retracted the story of an alleged Senate investigation into what they claimed were connections between a Russian investment fund and a confidante of US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

In January, CNN broke a story claiming Russia had compromising personal information about President Trump. The article was based on a dossier penned by an ex-spy from the UK. Later, the media outlet had to admit that the document was flawed and filled with unverified allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published time: 29 Jun, 2017 09:47 Edited time: 29 Jun, 2017 09:50 Amid the scandal over two sting videos with CNN employees saying that the Russia narrative is \u201cbull**it\u201d and \u201ca big nothing burger,\u201d a representative of the group that published the videos told RT any mainstream media \u201ctelling lies\u201d could be next. In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}