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Hmm ...

 

Yeah. They don't just work as hard as the others, they work harder.

 

Has there ever been a case where CNN was caught making up something out of whole cloth?

 

Is that what's required for it to be #FakeNews?

They've had to issue a number of corrections for their coverage of the Trump administration, and three reporters/editors resigned because of the Scaramucci article.

And, of course we have the Baghdad bureau, which censored themselves in order to remain in Iraq under Saddam.

 

Issuing corrections is what professional journalists do when they make a mistake.
Infowars rarely runs corrections,
Does that mean they're more accurate or trustworthy than CNN?

 

Making corrections is an example of how not to traffic in fake news.

 

All depends on how you end up getting it wrong.

Since these stories usually rely on anonymous sources, and CNN in unwilling/unable to expose what went wrong during the reporting process, we can't really judge if these are honest mistakes, or if CNN was more open to reporting what they wanted the news to be, and thus relied on unreliable sources, who were willing to tell them what they wanted to hear, in order to support the narrative that was already in place.

 

So if they just stuck to their guns and insisted they were right about it, they would have more credibility?
Again, I'd put CNN's record against Fox News, Infowars or Gateway Pundit's any day of the week.

 

What are you arguing?

Is Rolling Stone's UVA article not fake news because they issued a correction?

Making a mistake is one thing. Not having the procedures in place, that lead to repeated mistakes is another.

CNN has made multiple reporting errors, and they all just happen to make Trump look bad. If these were simply honest mistakes, wouldn't some of the errors been favorable to Trump?

 

That is the literal definition of fake news, or was until Trump decided to score points with his dumbshit base.

 

As would anyone that is not a Trump stooge and/or a grumpy old Fox News viewer. Yank doesn't appear that old so...