CNN Forced to Correct Report From ‘Anonymous Sources’ After Comey Proves It Wrong

[IAMX 3,055]

It’s already clear the mainstream media was one of Thursday’s biggest losers. Former FBI director James Comey ripped the New York Times and other news outlets for using anonymous sources and classified material they didn’t understand to report on Trump’s ties to Russian officials.

Thursday night, the network was forced to issue a correction after it reported—for two days straight—that once under oath, Comey would dispute the President’s claims that Comey had assured him he was not under FBI investigation.

The story, titled “Comey Expected to Refute Trump,”  was (of course) based on the word of “several anonymous sources.” Four reporters—Gloria Borger, Eric Lichtblau, Jake Tapper and Brian Rokus—were listed on the byline.

“Trump has made a blanket claim that Comey told him multiple times that he was not under investigation,” the now-corrected story claimed, according to the Washington Post. “But one source said Comey is expected to explain to senators that those were much more nuanced conversations from which Trump concluded that he was not under investigation.”

All evening Tuesday and all day Wednesday, CNN ran with the story, blaring its Comey prediction boldly on their on-screen banners. Several CNN panels discussed the story. One of the story’s authors, Borger, was adamant that her sources were on the money.

“Comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he’s asked about it by senators, and we have to assume that he will be,” Borger told one panel. “He will say he never assured Donald Trump that he was not under investigation, that that would have been improper for him to do so.”

That story turned out to be very wrong.

CNN added a correction to its story that spins the matter in a rather odd way.

 

CORRECTION AND UPDATE: This article was published before Comey released his prepared opening statement. The article and headline have been corrected to reflect that Comey does not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation in his prepared testimony released after this story was published.

 

Technically, Comey did more than “not directly dispute” Trump’s claims. He actually came out and said he spoke to the President several times and told him that he was not under investigation. But okay, CNN, you do you.

 

https://heatst.com/politics/cnn-forced-to-correct-report-from-anonymous-sources-after-comey-proves-them-wrong/

 

This is what happens when people on the left rely on fake news for their outrage. 

[IAMX 3,055]

Can I get a mod to combine this thread with these two below and title it "Fake News outlets (CNN, WaPo, NYT, etc.) and their 'anonymous source' calamities":

 

 

Many thanks.

Edited June 11, 2017 by IAMX

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

Threads like this don't seem to get much traction, I wonder why? 

 

The anonymous sources are disappearing and nowhere to be found, much like the drum beaters around here before the Comey testimony. 

[Dashinka 26,018]

1 hour ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

Threads like this don't seem to get much traction, I wonder why? 

 

The anonymous sources are disappearing and nowhere to be found, much like the drum beaters around here before the Comey testimony. 

No one wants to believe they have been duped by a profit hungry organization.  It also hurts their claim of being critical thinkers.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Even the new darling of the MDL , Comey said most of the time the sources are wrong.  Yet the fake news plows forward 

[Dakine10 5,452]

2 hours ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

Threads like this don't seem to get much traction, I wonder why? 

 

   

    Another 'the left' thread can't get off the ground? I'm not sure that should come as a surprise. 

    

[Dashinka 26,018]

1 hour ago, Dakine10 said:

   

    Another 'the left' thread can't get off the ground? I'm not sure that should come as a surprise. 

    

Is it really a "the Left" thread?  I would think all people would be interested when the media admits to do something wrong regardless of the context.

[IAMX 3,055]

56 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Is it really a "the Left" thread?  I would think all people would be interested when the media admits to do something wrong regardless of the context.

Given how fervently the left have relied on fake news, especially the excessive utilization of anonymous sources that turn out wrong, it would naturally bring home some introspective reasoning they're not willing to engage in.

Edited June 11, 2017 by IAMX

[Dakine10 5,452]

9 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Is it really a "the Left" thread?  I would think all people would be interested when the media admits to do something wrong regardless of the context.

 

    Well it shouldn't have been, but a few here seem intent on making every thread about "the left". I don't think we need to go searching for reasons why the thread didn't gain traction. How many times do you expect people to read the same thing before they stop clicking?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

9 hours ago, IAMX said:

Given how fervently the left have relied on fake news, especially the excessive utilization of anonymous sources that turn out wrong, it would naturally bring home some introspective reasoning they're not willing to engage in.

An unmanned source told me this thread is about fake news, false leaks, and profit driven news organizations. The same source said the left is the victim of said actions. No one likes to admit they have been hustled 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

21 minutes ago, Dakine10 said:

 

    Well it shouldn't have been, but a few here seem intent on making every thread about "the left". I don't think we need to go searching for reasons why the thread didn't gain traction. How many times do you expect people to read the same thing before they stop clicking?

But yet we have page after page of Trump pulled the tag off a mattress threads 

[IAMX 3,055]

4 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

But yet we have page after page of Trump pulled the tag off a mattress threads 

Yeah LOL I don't see that poster complaining about anti-Trump/Kushner/Ivanka/Melania threads every single day, often from the same person. Yet.. topic critical of leftist MSM.. and boom, here come the tears.

 

Apparently diversity angers the left. #WeWantEchoChamber

Edited June 12, 2017 by IAMX

[IAMX 3,055]

6 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

An unmanned source told me this thread is about fake news, false leaks, and profit driven news organizations. The same source said the left is the victim of said actions. No one likes to admit they have been hustled 

I imagine this next week will bring some kind of MSM invented scandal/investigation from anonymous sources that will signal the end of Trumps presidency for the umpteenth time. 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

17 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Yeah LOL I don't see that poster complaining about anti-Trump/Kushner/Ivanka/Melania threads every single day, often from the same person. Yet.. topic critical of leftist MSM.. and boom, here come the tears.

 

Apparently diversity angers the left. #WeWantEchoChamber

Nailed it

You forgot

 

#anythingidontlikeisbatting

[Dakine10 5,452]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

But yet we have page after page of Trump pulled the tag off a mattress threads 

 

    Yes, although that seems to be beside the point. 

 

    As our friend Kip used to say, post something interesting and people will comment. If not, I don't think we need to go digging around for an explanation.

Edited June 12, 2017 by Dakine10