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CNN doesn’t have many virtues but one virtue it does have is a stubborn refusal to ever admit wrongdoing, even when that wrongdoing was blatantly obvious.

As The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles reports:

Now is a time for applause. CNN refused to bow to the pedantic scolds demanding a correction after network analyst Asha Rangappa repeated a false claim about Rudy Giuliani. CNN could have easily followed suit when NBC News, the Washington Post, and the New York Times issued corrections after falsely reporting the FBI had briefed Giuliani about Russian efforts to influence the 2020 election. Instead, the network soldiered on as if nothing had happened.

CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas told the Washington Post the network did not intend to issue a correction regarding Rangappa’s false claim. In a display of epic bravado, Pratapas pointed to a CNN.com report about how the Post and other outlets had gotten their facts wrong. The report brazenly notes that CNN “had not confirmed” the Giuliani story, which had been based entirely on anonymous sources. CNN media critic Oliver Darcy authored a separate article on the corrections, which he described as “black eyes to the newsrooms” at fault. He did not mention Rangappa or CNN…

In August 2020, for example, Rangappa falsely accused former governor Nikki Haley (R., S.C.) of changing her name to appear more white. (Haley is Indian American, as is Rangappa.) When Alex Nester, a 22-year-old thenintern for the Washington Free Beacon reached out for comment from Rangappa’s employer, Yale University, the CNN analyst posted a screenshot of the request on Twitter and urged her 600,000-plus followers to “respond to Alex.” Nester’s personal phone number was clearly visible in the tweeted photo. Dozens of harassing messages followed.

Rangappa was forced to remove the tweet for violating Twitter’s terms of service. Posting someone’s personal information on the site, aka “doxxing,” is typically frowned upon and could lead to violence. Rangappa was unapologetic after Twitter “made me delete” the harassing tweet and referred to Nester as “Karen,” a derogatory and racially charged slur typically aimed at white women.

It seems that, at least for liberal media outlets, having absolutely no shame is seen as a selling point and not a vice. A fact which may explain why their ratings continue to plummet.

 



Comments

  1. CNN are world-wide liars. I’m here in Chile, and they lie constantly about the USA. Hope
    they get burned to the ground someday.

  2. CNN is a domestic terrorist group. Period. Propaganda and made up stories. Never a fact checked thing gets on the air.

    1. When you pay for cable or satellite etc, you pay money to globalist media like cliton opinion and feelings network even if you never watch that trash, I have not paid to have globalist media come into my house for around 15 years, I refuse to give globalist media a .01

  3. This network continues its journey downward. Ha ha ha. You get what you deserve. You get what you ask for. How can you justify success with failure?

    1. But globalist puppet media receives 100,000,000.00s when everyone purchases cable or satellite subscriptions even if you never watch that station .

    1. Crap News Network, I believe. If their ratings keep plummeting, they’ll soon be flushed down the toilet, though that might make me pity the poor cesspool.

  4. I don’t know if it’s possible for the offended parties to file a lawsuit against CNN and ask for huge monetary damages. If someone could do this CNN might listen if they lose the case & have to shell out $$$$$$. If afraid that some action costing them lots of money is the only thing that would make CNN behave.

    1. globalists and globalist puppet $oro$ and globalist puppet barry soetoro and his husband big MIKE appointed all the correct criminals to the correct positions to protect all their criminals .

  5. Joy reid is by far one of the biggest RACISTS ON TV. Shame on msnbc, allowing your ONE SIDED “reporter’s”to spew pure DRIVEL!!! ALL MSM OUTRIGHT LIE, IF NOT OUT FRONT OF A LIE, THEY LIE BY OMISSION!!! cnn and d. lemon, are TRULY OUT OF THEIR MINDS, DO YOU IN MSM, THINK AMERICANS ARE STUPID??? THE ONLY STUPIDITY IS ALL THE LIES MSM TELLS DAILY!!! WE TRUE PATRIOTIC AMERICANS ARE NOT LISTENING TO
    MSM ANY LONGER!!! biden,harris COMMUNIST REGIME MUST BE REMOVED, THE CURRENT LIARS OF MSM lemon, wallace, reid, behar, cuomo, cooper, hayes, maddow, smith, burnett, odonnell, williams, those are just the ones I thought of off the top of my head. ALL LIARS, DECEIVERS AND BAD PEOPLE!!!

  6. I am serious, how can anybody that has any mind listen to CNN and not know these guys are liars? My real question is why don’t people sue them for obvious slander? The press doesnot have the right to lie and when they are obvious lies, lies that are politicially motivated and obviously bought and paid for, the punishment should be very severe/harsh and quick.
    These lies are told to divide Americans. These lies are paid for by some super rich who don’t care about people, our country, anything but thier pockets and gaining complete control. Yu know, just like any other dictator, left or right dictator.
    These super rich (soros, bloomberg, etc.) aren’t investigated nor punished because they have bought everyone. These traitors/ terrorist/ people truing to over through our government need to be investigated, tried, with the obvious evidence found guilty, have all their possessions confiscated, and hung. Then go after all the people that were paid off and do the same for them. This includes politicians, both parties, media, school administrators, big tech owners and high officials, entertainment/sports/musicians/higher ups and those with a lot of influence over the americian public. Now this is another point, why do people have to be so…well never mind, but idoloze these entertainers/sports/muscians so much. Entertainers are many times dysfunctional, they are people that play things, they are doing what ever kids can do if let go. Sports people are typically playing kids games. Musicians well I kniow many people that could do what the most talented musicians do but just don’t need the approval of an idiotic public that relly doesn’t know anything. Just sayin

    1. globalists own 90+ % of all the money in the world and globalists own globalist media that preaches all the globalist agendas .

  7. Who cares if they make a correction or retraction. I would love to have their money instead of a correction. Obviously they have the money because of the many lawsuits that have been filed against them. They are an EVIL EMPIRE with no shame at all.

  8. My brother in law gets all of his news about the USA from cnn. It’s impossible to have a conversation with him.

  9. National epidemic of corrupt democrats are here, it’s like they all trying to grab what they can, before the shit hits the fan. They know Biden can’t stand up much longer. those behind the drapes, don’t want to be left holding the bag for his corruption. Even Biden’s DOJ knows their decisions are going to be held for review and accountability. The rats will be leaving that ship which sailed to go nowhere and do nothing. Trying to kill Trump’s accomplishments is not a plan. Everything Biden touches turns into the daily mishap, lawsuits are stacking up. public opinion is turning, waste full spending is mounting, prices are on the rise for food and gas and energy, unemployment has not improved, taxes are rising, Biden can’t manage oursouthern border, let alone the entire country. Said it before and will say it again, the Democrats can’t govern, tax and spend, spend and tax. 

  10. CNN has been wrong and/or misleading for years now. I can only imagine that their only following at this point are those looking for the humor in CNN’s blatant lies, misinformation and excuses for not admitting their errors!

  11. CNN will implode on itself. They are guilty of treason and probably involved in Pedophilia too . The CCP and probably the central bankers are propping them up but once the Maricopa fraud is revealed and Wisconsin and Michigan and Georgia, they will all fold

    1. been waiting for cnn to implode on itself for a long, long time….
      hasn’t happened so far!!!!!!
      Remember, this is America….. good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. CNN is a propaganda arm of the DNC! Corporate advertising on their broadcasts is a waste of money. Only the brain dead are watching.

    1. The same globalists and globalist puppet $oro$ that owns globalist media, owns globalist puppet democrat criminal party and globalist puppet rino criminal party .

  13. of course not, CNN (communist news network) is nothing more than propaganda to promote the anarchy socialist agenda of the demOrats

  14. Lovely people, aren’t they? By now it must be obvious even to the slowest viewers, that nothing they say can be trusted.

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