CNN hardest hit.
Author Vijeta Uniyal reports from Germany for the Legal Insurrection
blog with this headline: ‘CNN Journalist of the Year’ Fired for Faking News Stories
So, who is this 'CNN Journalist of the Year?' He is
Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor for the German weekly 'Der
Spiegel' - a publication so radically far-left it makes old school
Soviet communists drool with envy.
Relotius doesn't work for CNN, but Der Speigel has a fierce woody of hate for Donald Trump and anything even
remotely right of center. CNN recognized a fellow traveler and gave
him an award in 2014. But now, ‘CNN Journalist of the Year’ Claas
Relotius has been fired for faking news stories.
Fake news? It’s almost predictable, and has a very long paper trail. Literally.
Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke won a Pulitzer prize for her story
called ‘Jimmy’s World’ in 1980. It was a heart-wrenching tale about an
eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington D.C. It was also a complete
fabrication. Cooke was fired for her lies.
In 2006, author Greg
Mortenson released a book entitled ‘Three Cups of Tea’ in hopes of
raising money for his charity called ‘Central Asia Institute’ (CAI). Its
purpose was to build schools for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
After a CBS ’60 Minutes’ investigation in 2011 proved the book to be
little more than half-truths & fabulism, the Montana AG (in
Mortenson’s home state) investigated Mortenson and Central Asia Charity
for improper use of money raised from book sales.
In November
2011, Mortenson’s co-author, David Oliver Relin, killed himself. By
2012, the Montana AG ordered Mortenson to repay CAI $1 million out of
pocket.
Mortenson confessed to NBC’s Tom Brokaw during a 2014 interview what was already in evidence – Three Cups of Tea was a fraud.
Then there’s disgraced NY Times reporter Jayson Blair who resigned from
that former newspaper after it was discovered he engaged in numerous
cases of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories.
Or how about
the Rolling Stone scandal about the fake Duke LaCross gang-rape of
‘Jackie?’ That ‘too good to check’ pack of lies cost Rolling Stone an
estimated $10 million, and ruined the lives of many of the accused young
men, plus a very stupid D.A.
And just earlier this month,
blogger Fuzzy Slippers at Legal Insurrection detailed the lie about
‘Trump Jr.’s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen’s Account Of Russian
Talks’ burped up by NPR during the first to be wrong races.
Now, we have CNN’s Journalist of the Year exposed and disgraced as a lying leftist POS of the previous 5 years. A Banana Caught Masquerading as an Apple
Fake news? Fake news? The lesson is well-known by all except by many in
the journalism business: If you don’t want to be called fake news, stop
being known for persistently publishing fake news! Happy New Year.