As chronicled here, CNN’s talking heads lied repeatedly in an attempt to blame the attempted terrorist bombing in New York City on anti-Muslim, right-wing bigots. First Abbe Phillip repeated the Big Lie that had already been proven false, then she deceitfully continued it with a misleading “clarification” on X, and then “The View’s” fake conservative Ana Navarro repeated the fake Axis narrative a day later. The criticism of Phillip’s lie was so loud on social media that CNN apparently told their incompetent (but black and female, so she will be hard to fire) to do an on air apology, so we got this:
Verdict: 1. Too late. 2. Not good enough. She’s still lying.
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Ethics Alarms 
The statement she read off a teleprompter was obviously crafted by CNN lawyers: one hundred percent baloney.
Think about how many times they did this before we had access to the information on the internet. Think about how many times Walter Cronkite or Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather read us stuff that was complete fiction and we bought it because we had no other access to information and our ‘independent media’ all reported the same thing. How much of our history and news is just fabricated mainstream narrative? Why do they continue to do this? Because this is all they know how to do. It is what they always have done. There is no journalism and there never has been. Prove me wrong.
“Citizen Kane” and “Yellow Journalism” do come to mind, don’t they?
Good. We also need something akin to a “News Anchor / Reporter Database”. Maybe she has a wiki page and it’s updated with each egregious error in judgment, but a lot of the times, I don’t know who any of these people are as they’re constantly on rotation; or I just don’t watch frequently enough.
When I first heard there was something that happened in front of the NYC Mayor Residence, it sounded jumbled – that there was an anti-muslim protest and muslims were also present and threw the bomb at the residence…which didn’t quite make sense. I knew immediately that I would not seek additional information on the event and that it would come to me when it was better investigated and the facts were known.
This is the problem with trying to be “first” rather than to be correct, as Denzel Washington so eloquently stated years ago.