CNN

CNN   (Television)
Headquarters	CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia (State), USA
Type	•  commercial •  propaganda
Interest of	Project Veritas
Exposed by	John Bonifield, Cary Poarch
"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", 21st 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

Full article: 9-11

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

Full article: 9-11/Pentagon

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

Full article: Sandy Hook

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

Full article: 2016 US Presidential Election

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

 

A Document by CNN

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)
Document:Ratko Mladic Interview	interview	26 August 2011	Serbia Srebrenica Massacre Yugoslavia Ratko Mladić

 

A Quote by CNN

Page	Quote	Date	Source
The Twitter Files	“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”	2022	FBI, CNN

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Fake News"	“CNN is the ultimate "fake news" network. There isn't a day that goes by where CNN doesn't deliberately fake a news story, distort a significant event for political purposes, or censor an important piece of news they don't want their viewers to discover.”	Mike Adams	19 November 2016
George Carlin	“Now, to balance the scale, I'd like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. 'Cause that's all you ever hear about in this country. It's our differences. That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that's what they're gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.”	George Carlin
Jimmy Carter	“Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, [there is] massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. (...) (American media organisations), have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved”	Jimmy Carter	2004
Corporate media/Logic	“Now, to balance the scale, I'd like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. 'Cause that's all you ever hear about in this country. It's our differences. That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that's what they're gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs.”	George Carlin

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Natasha Bertrand	National Security Reporter	April 2021
John Bonifield	Supervising Producer CNN Health	February 2015		Covertly filmed by project Veritas stating Russiagate was "bullshit".
Tucker Carlson	Co-host of Crossfire	2000	2005
Chris Cuomo	Co-anchor of morning show New Day	2013	2021	Propagandized for Covid jab, then a few years later admitted he himself got jab injured.
Nima Elbagir	Correspondent	2011		Sole journalist to have seen Libyan slave markets. Also did Ebola coverage.
Bob Franken	National correspondent	1985	2007	Embedded reporter with US forces during 2003 Iraq war.
Liliana Gil	Commentator
Hala Gorani	Journalist	1998	2022
Richard Gutjahr	Trainee	January 1999	May 1999
Van Jones	Television presenter	June 2013		Host of Crossfire, The Messy Truth
Adam Kinzinger	Senior political commentator	2023
Maria Ressa	Lead investigative reporter	1987	2005
Brian Stelter	Host of Reliable Sources	2013	2022
Greta Van Susteren	Anchor of Burden of Proof	1991	2002
Jake Tapper	News talk show host	2001	2002
Jake Tapper	Chief Washington correspondent and news show anchor	20 December 2012		Shortlisted for 2017 Horace Greeley Award for Best Fake News Journalist. In 2020, threatened other journalists into silence on the subjects of election fraud.
Fareed Zakaria	Television presenter	2008		Hosted Fareed Zakaria GPS
Jeff Zeleny	Senior White House Correspondent	January 2017
Jeff Zeleny	Chief National Affairs Correspondent	January 2021

 

Event Witnessed

Event	Location(s)	Description
9-11/E-4B	The Pentagon US White House Washington DC	An E-4B was spotted over the White house and the Pentagon on 9/11. The official narrative for more than a decade was not to talk about it, although it was reported on CNN and video, photos and eye witnesses do exist. Later declassification did prove the basic fact that the plane was present.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Objectives, Tasks and Cluster activities and Relationships	Wikispooks Page		Euan Grant	Euan Grant lists an extensive list of willing collaborators. Intelligence people, non-fiction authors and lots and lots of media.

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