Former CIA Employee Explains ‘Dirty Little Secret’ of US Mainstream Media
SputnikNews.com
28.06.2017
Notwithstanding the scandal blowing up around CNN over its outright false coverage of ‘Russia-Trump collusion’, the mainstream US media’s narrative on Russia isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, says former CIA analyst and author John Kiriakou.
CNN is in trouble. Facing scandal Monday with the resignation of three staffers following the retraction of a story alleging ties between Russia and President Donald Trump’s transition team, the broadcaster was hit with a second humiliating blow Tuesday, after a CNN producer was caught on camera admitting that the Russia-Trump narrative was “bullsh*t” used to score ratings.
Speaking to Russian media about the scandal, John Kiriakou, a former US intelligence officer turned whistleblower, explained that unfortunately, the blow to CNN’s reputation following revelations of dishonesty and misreporting aren’t going to stop the mainstream media’s claims of collusion between Russia and President Trump.
“The dirty little secret of the American media is that it’s all corporatist, it’s all owned by gigantic companies and all they care about is the financial bottom line,” Kiriakou said, speaking to RT.
“They have to be more and more explosive in their stories, and sometimes the truth gets lost in those stories,” he added.
In his hidden camera interview with Project Veritas, CNN supervising producer John Bonifield admitted that the reason the broadcaster continues to circulate the Trump-Russia collusion story is that the story sells, lack of proof notwithstanding.
Boasting about the network’s “incredible” ratings, Bonifield explained that CNN’s goal was to make money, not conform to journalistic ethics standards. “All the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re like, ‘that’s adorable’…This is a business,” he said.
Given the scandal rocking the broadcaster over its shoddy reporting, Kiriakou noted that CNN, “frankly, is going to have to explain itself. What we have is the FBI and the CIA and members of Congress essentially telling us to just take their word for it. We can’t take their word for it, we need some evidence. And apparently even CNN has not received any evidence.”
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