In the wake of CNN’s false reporting on the Mueller Russia investigation, host Chris Cuomo boldly asserted that it isn’t his network that is promulgating “misinformation calculated to deceive,” but the White House instead.
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“Of course there are rules. Of course when a mistake is made you do immediately disclose it and apologize for it, that is what has happened,” host Alisyn Camerota chimed in. “But they are resetting the rules, certainly the rules of engagement in the press briefing room.”
“Well hold on a second, let’s not let it go that quick. The hypocrisy, the irony that Sarah Sanders is going to look at people and say, ‘you know there’s just this stream of misinformation that is calculated to deceive,’ yeah, coming from you!” said host Chris Cuomo. “Coming from the podium, coming from the president by definition.”
“They put out things that they know are not true or are used to conceal what they don’t want you to know, and they do it routinely, and when it gets exposed, they blame the media,” Cuomo continued. “Which is fair play, it has always happened that way in politics, you can argue the degree, and whether or not its right but it certainly the state of play, but to put that on the media I just, I don’t get where they think this is going to get them except for their one little concentrated base.”
CNN recently botched its reporting on the Mueller investigation in which they reported significant dates in the timeline of the investigation inaccurately. Last Friday, CNN’s Manu Raju discussed the erroneous report on television for hours before briefly acknowledging that the reporting was inaccurate later in the day.