Quote:Bombshell Video: CNN Producer Admits Russia Narrative is a Witch Hunt, Good For Ratings.
'In a bombshell video released by Project Veritas, CNN Producer John Bonifield is caught on a
hidden camera admitting that the network’s narrative about President Donald Trump being involved
with Russia is “mostly bullshit,” and admitting that instructions to spread the fake news comes
straight from their CEO, Jeff Zucker.
The hard-hitting video comes one day after it was announced that three people resigned from CNN
after the network was forced to retract a fake news story based on an anonymous source about
Anthony Scaramucci, a close ally of Trump, having ties to a Russian investment bank.
Speaking generally about the Russian hysteria, which is heavily peddled by the network,
Bonifield admits that they do not have any “giant proof” of wrongdoing.
“I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now,” Bonifield says. “Like, we don’t have any giant proof.["]
Bonifield goes on to mock ethics in reporting.
“It’s a business, people are like the media has an ethical phssssss…All the nice cutesy little ethics
that used to get talked about in journalism school you’re just like, that’s adorable.
That’s adorable. This is a business.”
The network, unlike MSNBC or Fox News, still pretends to be unbiased — yet are quick to point
the fingers at others for reporting “fake news.”
“Trump is good for business right now,” he admits.
It doesn’t end there.
Bonifield explains that orders for CNN reporters being ordered to relentlessly cover the “mostly bullshit”
Russian narrative comes straight from the top, telling an anecdote about Zucker ordering reporters to
keep covering the alleged collusion.
“Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a
half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN (Jeff Zucker) said in our internal meeting,
he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with that, let’s get back to
Russia,” Bonifield says.
Bonifield also admits that he believes President Trump is correcting in calling a witch hunt.
“I haven’t seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime,” Bonifield states.
“I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably
right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.”
In a 2015 post titled ‘What Happened to Journalistic Ethics at CNN?’ by Dr. Timothy Wheeler, the director of
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, he detailed his experience being interviewed by Bonifield, and
how it was immediately clear that he was there to push an agenda and not just get the story.
“Let me say this, CNN, in front of the whole country. Your reporters faked that story today.
In a wide-ranging, hour-long interview [Elizabeth] Cohen and Bonifield grilled me, couching their own biases
in the form of loaded questions to me. It felt more like being interrogated on a witness stand by two hostile
lawyers trying to wring a confession out of me,” Wheeler wrote.
Wheeler added that CNN management should be ashamed, as “these two presented themselves to me
as reporters, but are in fact unabashed political advocates.”
Investigative journalist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has been working to expose the mainstream
media for what they are. During a press conference from CPAC in February, he offered a $10,000 reward
for content exposing media malfeasance.
“Project Veritas is determined to expose malfeasance, corruption and wrongdoing,” O’Keefe said during
the release. “We want to become a destination where citizen journalists can come forward, work with us
and make a real impact.
That’s why today, we’re announcing a $10,000 reward for anyone that comes forward with legally obtained
materials exposing media malfeasance. If you have hidden audio recordings, video tapes or documents
inside of a newsroom or media institution–and the material is good enough–I will pay you $10,000.”
Though there is a reward being offered, the latest release came from an undercover journalist — not a leaker,
Project Veritas Communications Director Steve Gordon told Big League Politics.
O’Keefe also released 119 hours of secretly recorded raw audio from a source within the Atlanta CNN
headquarters at the time of the reward announcement.The recordings, which were released in a Wikileaks
style dump, was captured in 2009 by a source identified only as “Miss X.”
Richard Griffiths, who is now CNN’s Vice President and Senior Editorial Director, was caught in those
recordings explaining that the role of journalists is to “aid the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” instead
of just fairly and accurately reporting the news.
“Tell a story. Tell what’s going on. There’s a secondary corollary to that, right? Aid the afflicted and afflict the
comfortable. To a degree, right? Is that not part of the traditional role of a journalist,” Griffiths is heard saying.
“It’s actually one of the things I can be most proud of as a journalist. You know we try to show the ugly side
of humanity so we can do something about it. It’s hard, very hard.”
Other clips from the recordings included discussions openly speaking about the network’s profound liberal bias.
“To report not on facts, but instead on narratives that yield high ratings, is exactly the definition of fake news,”
James O’Keefe said in a press release. “We said we are going after the media, and there is a lot more to
come.”
Following their recent scandal over the fake news about Scaramucci, the network has put in place a new set
of rules for covering stories about Russia.
“No one should publish any content involving Russia without coming to me and Jason [Farkas],” CNNMoney
executive editor Rich Barbieri said in an email to staff.
“This applies to social, video, editorial, and MoneyStream. No exceptions,” the email added. “I will lay out a
workflow Monday.”
The video was originally scheduled to be released at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, but was released nine hours early
after being leaked. O’Keefe told Rebel Media journalist Laura Loomer that the leak was “all part of the plan.”...'
SOURCE:
This is probably the best evidence yet in the public domain of how 'Journalists' -and I use that term loosely,
have and are still continuing to collude to maintain a narrative that suits their purpose.
There are private forums where Journalists meet and discuss their objectives by choosing reports, creating
reports and slanting a real event to better their personal and funded goals.
Many of these Liberal scribes no longer believe what they're doing is righteous, they know it can work because
of the simple concept that anything written in a newspaper and online, anything broadcast via radio or television,
is always assumed to have some merit due to the public socially-brainwashed perception that a Journalist must
adhere to an ethical discipline.
The same discipline they mock in the above article.
Their chosen narrative can be seen as having a multi-faceted purpose. It assists in keeping pressure on those who
rebel against a certain established manner. There are serious powerful forces in the world that -I will use the word
'manipulate' global economies, political and social changes in countries and by using conduits of information -such
as the media, it makes the running of the world smoother.
It also keeps these hacks in employment and feeds their privileged egos.
This has gone on for a very long time and I fear it will be an even longer time before it's eradicated in the media
world.
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Here's an email discovered in the WikiLeaks cache.
Quote:RE: Press Dinners - Full Info
From:jesse@jesseferguson.com
To: amandarenteria@gmail.com, huma@hrcoffice.com, marlondmarshall@gmail.com, robbymook2015@gmail.com,
nmerrill@hrcoffice.com, jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com more
CC: marissa.astor@icloud.com
Date: 2015-04-07 12:28
Subject: RE: Press Dinners - Full Info
Here is the current RSVP list to the Thursday Night (4/9) dinner at Podesta’s. As a reminder, this is with the 25 reporters
more closely following HRC (aka the future bus).
Yes ABC – Liz Kreutz
Yes AP – Julie Pace
Yes AP - Ken Thomas
Yes AP - Lisa Lerer
AURN - April Ryan
Yes Bloomberg - Jennifer Epstein
Yes Buzzfeed - Ruby Cramer
Yes CBS – Steve Chagaris
Yes CNBC - John Harwood
Yes CNN - Dan Merica
Yes Huffington Post - Amanda Terkel
NO (Panama) LAT - Mike Memoli
Yes LAT - Evan Handler
Yes McClatchy - Anita Kumar
Yes MSNBC - Alex Seitz-Wald
Yes National Journal - Emily Schultheis
Yes NBC – Mark Murray
Yes NPR – Tamara Keith
NYT - Amy Chozik
Yes NYT - Maggie Haberman
Yes Politico - Annie Karni
Politico - Gabe Debenedetti
Yes Reuters - Amanda Becker
The Hill - Amie Parnes
Yes Washington Post - Anne Gearan
Yes WSJ - Laura Meckler
Yes WSJ - Peter Nicholas
Yes WSJ - Colleen McCain Nelson
*From:* Jesse Ferguson [mailto:jesse@jesseferguson.com]
*Sent:* Monday, April 6, 2015 5:10 PM
*To:* Amanda Renteria; 'Huma Abedin'; 'Marlon Marshall'; 'Robby Mook'; Nick Merrill; Jennifer Palmieri; brianefallon@gmail.com;
Kristina Schake; 'Mandy Grunwald'; 'Margolis, Jim'; 'Joel Benenson'; 'John Podesta'
*Cc:* 'Marissa Astor'
*Subject:* Press Dinners - Full Info
We wanted to make sure everyone on this email had the latest information on
the two upcoming dinners with reporters. Both are off-the-record.
1) Thursday night, April 9th at 7:00p.m. Dinner at the Home of John Podesta. His address is 3743 Brandywine St NW in Washington,
DC. This will be with about 20 reporters who will closely cover the campaign (aka the bus).
2) Friday night, April 10th at 6:30p.m. Cocktails and Hors D'oeuvre at the Home of Joel Benenson. His home address is 60 E. 96th
Street, #12B, New York, 10128. This is with a broader universe of New York reporters.
We understand if it’s too hard to make it, not a big deal, but great if you can.
Let me know if you have any questions.
WIKILEAKS:
See...? And this is only the ones selected for this particular narrative.
Imagine the amount of Editors, Sub-Editors, Journalists, celebrity-pundits and News Anchors that
are out there with their own set of ideals!
The ethics and responsibilities that a person takes on when relating valid information without biased
is something that today, equates to projecting a non-gendered human to the moon via a catapult.
Their corrupted and seemingly socially-accepted 'soul' -for want of a better word, won't let them.
*mini-rant over!*
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