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HeadquartersCNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia (state), USA
Type• commercial
• propaganda
Interest ofProject Veritas
Exposed byJohn Bonifield, Cary Poarch

CNN is a US television channel. Donald Trump called it a purveyor of "fake news" before he was elected.[1] Observing its banning in Venezuela for persistent "fake news", 21st Century Wire termed it "Deep State TV network and master of fake news".[2]

September 11th, 2001

Full article: Rated 4/5 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".[3] Later that evening they reported that a van of explosives had been stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike,[4] a report about the George Washington Bridge Plot which was quickly amended by Bernard Kerik.

Pentagon

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.[5] The video is stil available on Youtube.[6]

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.”[7]

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.[8]

Denial of the US Deep state

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.[9][10][11] 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".[12]

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."[13]

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

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."[14]

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."[14] 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

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)
Document:Ratko Mladic Interviewinterview26 August 2011Serbia
Srebrenica Massacre
Yugoslavia
Ratko Mladić

 

A Quote by CNN

PageQuoteDateSource
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.”2022FBI, CNN

 

Related Quotations

PageQuoteAuthorDate
"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 Adams19 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 Carter2004
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

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Natasha BertrandNational Security ReporterApril 2021
Tucker CarlsonCo-host of Crossfire20002005
Nima ElbagirCorrespondent2011Sole journalist to have seen Libyan slave markets. Also did Ebola coverage.
Bob FrankenNational correspondent19852007Embedded reporter with US forces during 2003 Iraq war.
Liliana GilCommentator
Hala GoraniJournalist19982022
Richard GutjahrTraineeJanuary 1999May 1999
Van JonesTelevision presenterJune 2013Host of Crossfire, The Messy Truth
Adam KinzingerSenior political commentator2023
Maria RessaLead investigative reporter19872005
Brian StelterHost of Reliable Sources20132022
Greta Van SusterenAnchor of Burden of Proof19912002
Jake TapperNews talk show host20012002
Jake TapperChief Washington correspondent and news show anchor20 December 2012Shortlisted for 2017 Horace Greeley Award for Best Fake News Journalist. In 2020, threatened other journalists into silence on the subjects of election fraud.
Fareed ZakariaTelevision presenter2008Hosted Fareed Zakaria GPS
Jeff ZelenySenior White House CorrespondentJanuary 2017
Jeff ZelenyChief National Affairs CorrespondentJanuary 2021

 

Event Witnessed

EventLocation(s)Description
9-11/E-4BThe 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.

 

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