It Gets Worse! CNN's 'Journalist of the Yr' Embezzled Donations Away From Syrian Kids
People thought CNN’s “journalist of the year” was only guilty of creating false stories on a “grand scale.”
Nope.
Turns out the guy is much worse.
Influential German news weekly Der Spiegel said Sunday it would file a criminal complaint against a disgraced reporter after it emerged he may have embezzled donations intended for Syrian street children.
Claas Relotius, 33, resigned this month after admitting to making up stories and inventing protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the magazine’s print and online editions.
Spiegel said it now had information that Relotius allegedly launched a campaign for readers to give money to help subjects of an article he wrote but that the bank details he gave directed the funds to his own account.
It appears, once again, that CNN is the butt of the joke.
Sorry, not sorry?
From Fox News:
The German magazine Der Spiegel revealed Wednesday that one of its top award-winning journalists fabricated many of his articles, inventing characters, sources, and their quotes “on a grand scale” for many years.
You need 2,000 people to conduct an accurate poll.
According to 2,206 adults, one “journalist” stands out as the most distrusted.
He works for CNN.
Any guesses?
A Morning Consult poll shows CNN’s Jake Tapper is the most mistrusted journalist in America.
The poll surveyed 2,206 adults, has a margin of error of plus or minus two percent, and asked a number of questions about the news media in general and 50 specific American media personalities specifically.
Larry King worked for CNN for a very long time.
In a recent interview, he admitted what a lot of people have figured for a good while now.
According to Larry, CNN “stopped doing news a long time ago.”
Partial transcript:
HOST RICK SANCHEZ: You know it’s interesting. As I listen to you I’m thinking that both you and I are old enough to remember that there was a lot of antagonism during the 1960s. There was a lot of antagonism during Watergate. There was certainly antagonism during the Clinton years. But there is something, maybe it’s an undercurrent, that is different now. Can you put your finger on it? What is it?
KING: Two things, Rick — the internet and cable news. Could you imagine cable news in Watergate? And they don’t do news anymore. In fact, RT is one of the few channels doing news. RT does news. CNN stopped doing news a long time ago. They do Trump. Fox is Trump TV and MSNBC is anti-Trump all the time. You don’t see a story — there was vicious winds and storms in the Northeast the other day – not covered on any of the three cable networks, not covered. Not covered! So when CNN started covering Trump — they were the first — they covered every speech he made and then they made Trump the story. So, Trump is the story in America. I would bet that ninety-eight percent of all Americans mention his name at least once a day. And when it’s come to that, when you focus on one man, I know Donald 40 years — I know the good side of Donald and I know the bad side of Donald — I think he would like to be a dictator. I think he would love to be able to just run things. So, he causes a lot of this. Then his fight with the media and fake news. I’ve been in the media a long time, like you — longer than you, Rick. And at all my years at CNN, in my years at Mutual Radio, I have never seen a conversation where a producer said to a host “pitch the story this way. Angle it that way. Don’t tell the truth.” Never saw it. Never saw it.
SANCHEZ: You know it’s funny, just quick because you know these producers are telling me you guys have to start wrapping this up … you said something interesting about how CNN played along with Trump. I think they only played along or at least gave him that much airtime in many ways because they didn’t think he was going to win, correct?
KING: I guess it’s to their regret. But, they covered him as a character. They carried every speech he made. They carried him more than Fox News, at the beginning. And so they built the whole thing up and the Republicans had a lot of candidates and they all had weaknesses. When I saw Senator Cruz hug Donald Trump the other day I said, “this is what America has become.” He said that Cruz’s father helped kill Kennedy!
WATCH:
Julia Ioffe is a journalist who came to America with her family to escape anti-Semitism in Russia.
She blamed the Trump administration for moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem for 11 dead Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue (more on that below).
On Monday, Ioffe appeared on CNN.
She takes things a step further.
According to Julia, Trump has radicalized more people than ISIS.
Again, Ioffe says Trump has radicalized more people than ISIS.
WATCH:
On CNN, @juliaioffe just said "this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did.”
Insane. pic.twitter.com/zlV8jLpQRn
— Michael Ahrens (@michaelahrens) October 29, 2018
Regarding Ioffe and the Jersalem embassy comment:
And a word to my fellow American Jews: This president makes this possible. Here. Where you live. I hope the embassy move over there, where you don’t live was worth it.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) October 27, 2018
Reactions:
* This is some sick, disgusting victim-blaming right here, which plays on classic antisemitic tropes about dual loyalties.
* The vast majority of her fellow American Jews didn’t even vote for Trump, and the shooter tweeted against Jews for holding opinions opposite to Trump https://t.co/pE6f8F2XxA— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) October 27, 2018
The opportunistic Left will always exploit tragedy to push vindictive, ignorant and hateful political rhetoric.
Always. https://t.co/VwfuJzczT6
— Chad Felix Greene 🏳️🌈 (@chadfelixg) October 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/pbolyard/status/1056256596853116928?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1056256596853116928&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Ftwitter-users-flabbergasted-as-liberal-gq-writer-blames-jews-and-the-embassy-move-for-pittsburgh-mass-shooting%2F
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1056230773408325632?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1056230773408325632&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Ftwitter-users-flabbergasted-as-liberal-gq-writer-blames-jews-and-the-embassy-move-for-pittsburgh-mass-shooting%2F
The worst take of an already horrific day. This take is straight from the anti-Semite masquerading as anti-Zionist playbook—“The Jews of America must pay for Israel.” Horrific. Just stop. https://t.co/GrBPOWIfSY
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) October 27, 2018
This is a twisted sick uninformed hateful comment. To suggest that there is any link between a white supremacist opening fire on Shabbat synagogue goers and the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem is nutso. And promotes hate. https://t.co/NiJjLnuFVO
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) October 27, 2018
Here’s a clip featuring Ioffe:
