“Then why is CNN constantly like, Russia this, Russia that?” asked the PV reporter.
“
Because it’s ratings. Our ratings are incredible right now,” replied Bonifield.
“And the CEO [Jeff Zucker] of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said, good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with it. Let’s get back to Russia,” he said.
Later in the video, the PV reporter continues on the Russia angle saying “but honesty, you think the whole Russia smilet is just bulls**t?
“Could be bulls**t. I mean
it’s mostly bull
right now. Like, we don’t have any giant proof,” replied Bonifield, who added that we would have known something by now given the leaky nature of the Trump administration.
“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,” he added.
Also, the video features Bonifield speaking dismissively of ethics in journalism, noting that it’s a business first and foremost.
“But,
all the nice cutesy little ethics that use to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable. This is a business, he said.
This is straight from CNN supervising producer John Bonifield.
Fake. News. Period.
And I'm not saying that Fox is any different with that murdered DNC staffer stupidity.
I try to watch them all, and use some kind of personal Dijkstra's algorithm to guess at where in the middle the truth might be.