CNN

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Headquarters	CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia (State), USA
Type	commercial, propaganda
"Deep State TV network and master of fake news", experienced a precipitous decline in popularity since about 2019

CNN is a US television channel. Donald Trump called it a purveyor of "fake news" before he was elected. Observing its banning in Venezuela for persistent "fake news", [[21^st Century Wire]] termed it "Deep State TV network and master of fake news". Nicholas Grossman of Arc Digital charged CNN with "egregious misreading" of a Gallup poll about COVID-19.

Reporting

1991 Gulf War

CNN covered the first war against Iraq with live reports by Charles Jaco. Some Internet articles accused CNN of faking the whole scene in a studio, which may be false. A direct look at the wholly available footage, however, reveals that the insinuated riskiness of their reporting, with sirens in the background that were likely only played for effect, the acting that a gas attack is about to happen, in connection with jokes of air that imply that the situation is not at all dangerous for anyone in the area, is more acting than reality.

September 11th, 2001

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CNN - Explosive laden van found next to George Washington Bridge night of 9_11

Anticipating the collapse of WTC7, CNN announced at 4:10pm on September 11th, 2001 that another building in the WTC complex "has collapsed or is collapsing". Later that evening they reported that a van of explosives had been stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike, a report about the George Washington Bridge Plot which was quickly amended by Bernard Kerik.

Pentagon

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Jamie Mcintyre stated “From my close-up inspection, there is no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon... The only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, a fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse. Even though if you look at the pictures of the Pentagon you see that the floors have all collapsed, that didn’t happen immediately, it wasn’t until almost about forty-five minutes later that the structure was weakened enough that all of the floors collapsed.”

Full article: 9-11/E-4B

CNN Published a short report about a large jet white which flew over the White House on September 11th, 2001, believed to have been an E4B. Another report issued in 2007 was removed from the internet and then later replaced. The video is still available on Youtube.

Sandy Hook

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The Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was covered by CNN with live reporting and a "press conference" by one of the parents of a murdered child, Robbie Parker. Video footage of him walking to the microphone laughing and smiling shortly before the broadcast starts does exist. He then changes his mood, looking mournful with tears in his eyes right before the broadcast starts, which is the part CNN did air. This among other inconsistencies led to speculation that this school shooting has been a staged false flag attack.

2016 US Presidential Election

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During the 2016 US Presidential Election, CNN was widely interpreted as siding with the Hillary Clinton campaign, and was criticised for engaging in numerous acts of partiality, including asking leading questions to a focus group such as "what was it about Hillary Clinton's argument that resonated with you?" When some of Clinton's emails were leaked on Wikileaks, CNN incorrectly told viewers that it was illegal for their listeners to view the emails, but that CNN could view them because the "media have special privileges."

Israel

Under a long-standing CNN policy, no matter where they are reporting from, every CNN journalist covering Israel and Palestine must submit their work for review by the news organization's bureau in Jerusalem prior to publication. While CNN says the policy is meant to ensure accuracy in reporting on a polarizing subject, it means that much of the network's coverage is shaped by journalists who operate under the rules of Israel's military censor, which dictates subjects that are off-limits for news organizations to cover, and censors articles it deems unfit or unsafe to print.

Ivermectin

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In the campaign against ivermectin, CNN put a fake filter on podcaster Joe Rogan, making his skin appear greenish-yellow, after he told how he successfully used the drug.

Censorship

In 2014 Donald Sterling's former mistress V. Stiviano was in New York to appear in an hour-long interview scheduled with Anderson Cooper. This was pulled without explanation.

In 2017, CNN tracked down the creator of a meme showing Donald Trump in a wrestling match with CNN - possibly in a test case for how to handle memes. The channel made the creator, an anonymous Reddit user, apologize, in return for not doxing him. CNN wrote they would not publish his name because he "showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same. CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change."

US Deep state denialism

CNN has been pretty consistent in denying the existence of the US deep state, and has consistently used quote marks for the phrase when summarising other's speech. It has depicted it as a (self-evidently) untrue "conspiracy theory" popular with Donald Trump. Julian Zelizer in June 2018 headlined a report Trump uses IG report to spread 'deep state' conspiracy, equating "conspiracy" with "conspiracy theory".

Staff

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A video focusing on CNN as a purveyor of "Fake News"

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper according to some polls is one of the most trusted news anchors in the US. In some instances he has taken an almost hostile stand against people or their position during the interviews.

War profiteers

Global Research reports on an investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative into the TV appearances of a set of war pundits with known ties to weapons manufacturers which found that out of "37 appearances of the pundits named, CNN attempted to disclose that individual's ties a mere seven times."

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A mockery of CNN's attitude to simply oppose everything that Donald Trump says by the satire site The Babylon Bee.

John Griffin

Senior CNN producer John Griffin (axed by the company after his arrest) was sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Exposure

Project Veritas

Project Veritas released a secretly recorded video of an interview with John Bonifield. When asked "why is CNN constantly like Russia this, Russia that?" he replied "Because it's ratings... Our ratings are incredible right now", when asked whether it was bullshit, he replied that it "could be bullshit. I mean, it's mostly bullshit right now. Like we, don't have any big giant proof." Another commentator replied that "the Russia thing is just a big nothing burger".

In October 2019 Project Veritas published recordings made secretly by technician Cary Poarch, who was upset by the covert political bias of CNN.