• First, there was CNN’s insane framing of the terrorist bombing attempt in New York City, followed by a retraction that itself was misleading. EA covered it here.
• Then Abbe Phillip, one of CNN’s more shameless propagandists, said on the air that the bombing had been aimed at Mayor Mamdani, the Muslim Communist, instead of the bombs’ real targets, conservative protesters. That lie had been repeatedly refuted, but Abbe repeated it anyway.
• Next, after she was quite properly excoriated for that, Phillip, she posted an “apology” that continued to imply that the mayor was the target.
• Never mind! Less than 24 hours later, “The View’s” Ana Navarro made the same false claim yet again on  a CNN panel, and shouted over a panelist who tried to correct her.
• Eventually CNN forced Phillip to read a legal department weasel worded on-air correction which described her intentional lie (and CNN’s obvious effort to try to excuse Islam for another terrorist attack) as “a mistake.”
• Of course CNN got on board the fake “Lobstergate” scandal, and managed to lap all the other Axis hacks by allowing old Clinton bag man Paul Begala to claim on the air that Sec. Hegseth had spent $6.9 million in the month of September for “ribeye steaks and lobster tails” all for himself.
• It was also revealed last week that CNN was the only U.S. news source allowed to broadcast from Tehran, and this meant it had to uses disclaimer on its (always taped, never live, and this presumably vetted by the enemy) broadcasts from Iran.  Hilariously, fake CNN journalism ethics watchdog Brian Stelter was shocked—shocked!—that anyone would suspect that CNN would sell its integrity for ratings-winning cooperation with Iran. “The criticism of CNN’s reporting from Iran is unfair and suggests an all-too-common unfamiliarity with the basic tenets of journalism,” he tweeted, as if anyone in that “advocacy journalism” nest cares a fig for the “basic tenets of journalism.”
• Also last week, CNN went full-on pro-Iran, as Erin Burnett OutFront had “investigative reporter” Katie Polglase painting America and Israel as the bad guys in the conflict using Iranian sources. Leading into the segment, host Erin Burnett said: “This, as a new CNN investigation uncovers just how close U.S.-Israeli air strikes have come to hitting civilian sites like schools and hospitals inside Iran.” This is girlie-weenie-“Give peace a chance” garbage, and should disqualify any news source stooping to it from covering anything but births of baby bears at the zoo. If Iran is so concerned about its schools and hospitals, let it surrender.
• To cap it all off, it was revealed last week that CNN executives partied at the UK’s Iranian Embassy on Feb. 12 to celebrate the revolution that brought the current brutal, repressive, terrorism-supporting regime to power. On the same day as the event,  the US-based group Human Rights Activists News Agency announced that at least 7,000 people had been killed in Iran, including 219 children. 

That was just last week. CNN started off the year with one of the most openly manipulative headlines of all time. Still, a truly embarrassing week of wretched journalism and repeated unethical is a weird time to choose to be defiant. “The best defense is an offense” doesn’t work when one’s position is indefensible and lying isn’t allowed in your line of work.