Fake News Network found out (again) it can't stand by its own reporting

3 CNN Journalists Resign After Retracted Story on Trump Ally

I can't understand this. Their job is to get Trump. Since when did the facts get in the way? 

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Anthony Scaramucci at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. A CNN story linked him to a Russian investment fund supposedly being investigated by the United States Senate. Laurent Gillieron/European Pressphoto Agency

Three prominent journalists at CNN resigned on Monday after the cable news network was forced to retract and apologize for a story on its website involving a close ally of President Trump.

The article — linking Anthony Scaramucci, a hedge-fund manager and Trump confidant, to a Russian investment fund supposedly being investigated by the Senate — was removed from CNN.com late last week after the network decided it could not fully stand by its reporting.

The resignations are a black eye at a sensitive moment for the news organization, which has emerged as a regular target of Mr. Trump and his supporters. The president relishes dismissing the network's coverage as "fake news," and his closest advisers have accused the channel of harboring a bias against Mr. Trump.

CNN's president, Jeffrey A. Zucker, has invested enormous resources into political and investigative coverage of the Trump White House, and he was deeply upset by last week's reporting errors, according to two people briefed on the network's discussions over the weekend who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Mr. Zucker helped lead an internal inquiry that found the story was published despite concerns expressed by CNN's standards team, the people said. Thomas Frank, a veteran reporter who wrote the story; Lex Haris, executive editor of investigations; and Eric Lichtblau, an investigative editor and reporter hired from The New York Times in April, submitted resignations on Monday morning.

It was the latest in a series of embarrassing episodes at CNN. The network fired Kathy Griffin, a host of its New Year's Eve special, after she published a photograph in which she appeared to brandish a facsimile of Mr. Trump's severed head. It cut ties with the host Reza Aslan after he assailed Mr. Trump in vulgar Twitter posts. And it issued a correction on another story that inaccurately predicted the congressional testimony of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.

By Monday night, some critics of CNN had already seized on the news. "Fake News Blues," blared a headline on the right-wing website Breitbart News.

Fake News Network found out (again) it can't stand by its own reporting