MOCKINGBIRD REDUX? CNN’s Role in Peddling Fake ‘Nothing Burger’ Russia-Gate News Revealed

21st Century Wire says…

CNN has reportedly refused to punish one of its senior producers John Bonifield, after a recent Project Veritas video sting operation exposed the network’s role in peddling a fake Russia-gate narrative just for ratings. As if that wasn’t enough of a network crisis, CNN’s Van Jones was also caught in a new Veritas video sting release stating that the Russia collusion story is a “big nothingburger.”

This news comes after three prominent writers for CNN reportedly ‘urged to resign’ after facing a nearly $100 million dollar lawsuit (something which 21WIRE predicted) earlier this week following a story (since retracted) that falsely linked political figure and financier Anthony Scaramucci to a Russian investment fund currently under a congressional probe.

NOTE: CNN and other big media outlets have been pushing a vast Russian conspiracy for nearly a year and now are brushing off the narrative off potentially to save face after being caught in an ongoing deception…

‘MEDIA MOCKERY’ – Senior CNN producer John Bonifield was caught in a video sting admitting that the Trump-Russia is untrue. (Photo Illustration 21WIRE’s Shawn Helton)

The US media has been floating the ‘blame Russia’ meme for months, and even more conveniently over this past 2016 US presidential election cycle, before morphing into the dodgy dossier that included unverified Trump-Russia claims. Incredibly, the still as of yet unsubstantiated Russian/Trump collusion story briefly vanished, only to be newly reignited again, after two neocon/neoliberal approved US military missile strikes in Syria and Afghanistan took place following the highly suspect sarin allegations out of the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun.

Just this week, the US government warned (a story peddled by CNN among others) of new alleged ‘chemical attacks’ out of Syria, something which could have potentially prompted another wag the dog theatrical bombing from the Western allied coalition. This may have happened if it were not for a blistering report regarding the false sarin claims concerning the Idlib province by award-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh only days ago. Hersh’s report, appropriately titled “Trump‘s Red Line”confirmed much of what we at 21WIRE managed to outline in the aftermath of the alleged chemical attack, while also condemning the lack of clear evidence and reactionary military response by the Trump administration even after Russia shared deconfliction intelligence with the US.

‘SARIN HOAX’ – It’s official now, the alleged Syrian chemical attack story was a false narrative that Western media outlets gleefully lapped up. (Image Source: cnn)

Now, as if by coincidence, Reuters reports that Syria has ‘heeded’ its warning, almost immediately after Hersh’s stirring investigative effort laid bare many elements of April’s sarin hoax out of Syria.

All of this has taken place, while the recent CNN video sting revelations have only added fuel to the already questionable Russian collusion plot line, something which we’ve covered extensively here at 21WIRE. In fact, following the highly dubious DDoS attacks in America in October of 2016, 21WIRE made the following assessment:

“Indeed, as you look back at NY Times articles since the summer [of 2016], the stage was being set to implant the idea of an alleged Russian cyber war being waged at the US, principally charging that they would ‘meddle’ with the US presidential elections in 2016 by aiding Donald Trump. Here’s the NY Times building the case for Washington, seemingly without the burden of proof:

“An unusual question is capturing the attention of cyberspecialists, Russia experts and Democratic Party leaders in Philadelphia: Is Vladimir V. Putin trying to meddle in the American presidential election?

Until Friday, that charge, with its eerie suggestion of a Kremlin conspiracy to aid Donald J. Trump, has been only whispered.”

In August, the western media’s claims against Russia hit overdrive, when the “New York Times’s Moscow bureau was the target of an attempted cyberattack this month. But so far, there is no evidence that the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful.”

Flash forward to September here and here, as well as early October in the lead up to President Obama’s decree, the Clinton friendly outlet the NY Times had all but solidified the Russian cyber/hack claims – once again, without any definitive proof.”

Here’s the latest Project Veritas video exposing CNN’s Van Jones admitting there’s no evidence to backup the Russian conspiracy story…

Here’s another look at the recent Project Veritas video exposing CNN producer John Bonfield admitting the network has pushed a false Russian collusion meme…

QUESTION: Why has CNN been peddling Russian collusion allegations without any evidence?

It’s not just for ratings…

The Russia-gate plot line perpetuated by CNN immediately recalls the symbiotic relationship between the CIA and American media seen during the Cold War era. In the early 1950’s, the CIA ran a wide-scale program called Operation Mockingbird that was said to have infiltrated the American news media in particular, which propagandized the public through various front organizations, magazines and cultural groups. Is the recent CNN fallout more evidence confirming that a modern version of Operation Mockingbird is alive and well?

In recent years, there has been a series of surreal and unreal news stories since the Smith-Mundt Act was effectively rendered obsolete by US lawmakers on July 2nd 2013, as confirmed by RT below:

“Until earlier this month, a longstanding federal law made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated outlets broadcasting around the globe. All of that changed effective July 2, when the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was given permission to let US households tune-in to hear the type of programming that has previously only been allowed in outside nations.”

“The Smith-Mundt Act has ensured for decades that government-made media intended for foreign audiences doesn’t end up on radio networks broadcast within the US. An amendment tagged onto the National Defense Authorization Act removed that prohibition this year.”

There has been an unprecedented increase in propaganda over the years from big media, despite claims that the NDAA provision offered more transparency to the American public.

More from RT below…

‘THE FIX’ – John Bonifield admitted that CNN’s Russia collusion narrative is not based on evidence. (Image Source rt)

CNN stands behind its producer caught in sting video, says he won’t be punished

RT

CNN has backed one of its senior producers caught in a Project Veritas sting video, saying the company encourages diversity of personal opinions. John Bonifield was filmed admitting the network’s craze over alleged Trump-Russia collusion is “bullsh*t.”

“Diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong, we welcome it and embrace it,” an email from a CNN spokesman to the Daily Beast reads. “CNN stands by our medical producer John Bonifield,” it said.

CNN Health supervising producer Bonifield, who is not involved in the channel’s political coverage, was videotaped saying the company does not have any evidence to support its Russia-Trump narrative, driven mostly by the desire for ratings.

“It’s mostly bullsh*t right now. Like, we don’t have any big giant proof,” the CNN producer can be heard saying in the video, adding that US President Donald Trump is “probably right” to accuse them of a conducting a witch-hunt.

This story continues at RT…

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