With three CNN employees resigning over retracted story on Russia ties, a lawsuit of 100 million dollars against, and being caught giving Hillary Clinton the debate questions in advance what is the future of this network?
It will die and take liberalism, the democratic party and gays with it.
Poor journalism made Fox News successful.
I predict CNN will have YUUUUGE profits this year. Winning!
They’ll continue to report the news in as unbiased a way as possible, and will probably make mistakes. But don’t worry, you’ll still have Breitbart and Faux News to maintain the standard of lack of journalistic integrity.
Not about elections and only tangentially related to politics. I think this is better in Great Debates so I’m moving it there.
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I hate to cast a cloud over the OP, but the debate question controversy is a bit overblown.
It’s possible that Danna Brazile may have gotten a question or two before the CNN debate and passed the info to the Clinton campaign. I don’t think there’s much question that the DNC was in the tank for Hillary. But this is not nearly as scandalous as leaking intel to the Russians inside the Oval Office.
I suggest anyone learning journalism should read the boy who cried wolf. You might get an increase in ratings with these fake news stories, but the cost will be your credibility and over time which means your ratings will drop.
CNN might be around in the future, but I suspect they will have to change their format.
So your argument here is, Fox News went out of business a decade ago?
So in the future, they won’t retract stories that are poorly vetted?
Why does this lesson apply to CNN and not Fox News (or the White House)?
Fox News told viewers a large number of whoppers over the years. It hasn’t hurt them.
It’s interesting how few Trump supporters are concerned with freedom of the press and how many are concerned with gun rights.
It is fact CNN gave Clinton the questions to the debate in advance.
There is no proof of the Russians did anything to fix our election, even heavyweight Democrats agree on this.
CNN is the worst offender, but I’ve sorties from others with grandiose headlines and no facts, substituting the facts and proof with words like allegedly, and according to sources ( which will never be named ) and so on.
It is a complex issue of wanting to put reporters up against the wall, and at the same time railing against the reporters for getting the caliber of the bullet wrong. What liars!
There is a difference between an opinion and outright lies. How many people did Fox fire over the years for lies?
CNN fired how many this year?
If I can show that your posts are in error, will you resign your membership? Seems like CNN is the honorable actor in this exchange.
My point is that Fox News doesn’t seem to fire anyone for lies. Groping gets you a golden parachute, of course.
How many of these statements do you consider to be opinions, as opposed to “facts?”
How about this one in particular?
Raven,
If you have to lump CNN in with FOX, my point is made.
Yes there is:
That CNN’s profits are going to go through the roof? Then why are you questioning its future?
There’s a ton of evidence that the Russians interfered with our election! And there’s quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that the Trump campaign was involved with this, at least in communicating with the Russians about what the Russians were doing, before they did it.
That’s why we have an investigation - what was the relationship? Did the Trump campaign request the actions, or did the Russians simply inform the Trump campaign ahead of time? Who in the Trump campaign was involved? Trump? And finally, why does Trump and his administration not seem to care about the issue at all?
Regarding the lawsuit, anyone can sue anyone for anything - it doesn’t mean there is merit in the lawsuit.
The future is that they will continue to present journalism, and when they catch someone violating the ethics of journalism, they will fire them.
Can you say the same for your beloved FOX, on either account?