CNN, the 24-hour cable news network that was prompted to dismiss three journalists Monday after publishing a bogus report last week connecting a member of President Donald Trump's team to a Russia-based investment fund, can't seem to dodge accusations it ramped up coverage of flimsy Kremlin conspiracy allegations in the name of ratings.
The latest report, produced by James O'Keefe's Project Veritas undercover news operation, involves one of CNN's most prominent political commentators, former Obama White House special adviser Van Jones, claiming in a secretly-recorded video that "the Russia thing" being driven by the network "is just a big nothing-burger."
Have you ever noticed that so-called "privacy" laws often end up protecting the privacy of … the government?
Case in point: A rape by a 17-year-old boy of a 14-year-old student at a public high school in Manchester, New Hampshire. It happened in 2015, so you'd think by now it'd be old news. But it's new news, because the authorities just announced it … last week.
