24 Facts About CNN controversies

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CNN controversies apologized for a May 15,2003, story in which CNN controversies's John Zarella and Broward County, Florida Sheriff Ken Jenne demonstrated the rapid firing of fully automatic firearms while covering the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, due to expire the following year.

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CNN controversies was so consistently aligned against Bernie Sanders that it compromised its claim to journalistic neutrality.

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CNN controversies article published shortly before the debate, which reported that Bernie Sanders allegedly told Elizabeth Warren in private during a 2018 meeting that a woman can't win a presidential election, was criticized for being viewed as a hit piece intended to depict Sanders as a misogynist prior to the debate and for being anonymously sourced.

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On January 10,2017, CNN controversies reported on the existence of classified documents that said Russia had compromising personal and financial information about then President-elect Donald Trump.

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CNN controversies did not publish the Steele dossier, or any specific details of the dossier.

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Washington Post again fact-checked a CNN controversies report regarding Trump on December 8,2017: CNN controversies ran a story that claimed two sources told the network that the Trump campaign received an email that gave Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr.

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CNN controversies was criticized for using a photograph of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher with disgraced BBC presenter Jimmy Savile four times during coverage of her death on April 8,2013.

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CNN controversies said the CNN reporter's presumption of linking the identity of those victims with the PRC's 70th anniversary reflected the "wrongful mindset" of the Western media.

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Hu Xijin, editor of the Chinese newspaper Global Times and an influential news commentator on the social media, said on his Weibo that the CNN controversies reporter was "brought into a ditch" by the Chinese public intellectuals who "seemed to collude with each other".

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The story's producers were summarily fired, and one of them has been highly critical of CNN controversies's handling of the story, saying that the network bowed to pressure from high-ranking officials to kill the story.

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CNN controversies claimed that during the second meeting she was threatened and intimated to stop speaking on the matter.

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In February 2022, while covering air-raid sirens over the city of Kyiv during the invasion, CNN controversies came under fire for playing an Applebee's commercial featuring the upbeat song Chicken Fried in a split-screen commercial break with the war coverage.

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One of the two CNN controversies reporters reporting the crime was seen leaving the crime scene by climbing over the low wall and fence around the compound, and over the police tape.

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CNN controversies was criticized for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, after erroneously reporting that a "dark-skinned male" had been arrested in connection with the attack.

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In 2017, Vox described CNN controversies as "treat[ing] politics like a sport" and stated that CNN controversies under Jeff Zucker heavily uses debates to manufacture drama.

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CNN controversies was instantly criticized for making fun of a woman who was being physically abused by a man she did not know, as well as for being a hypocrite after recently calling for ESPN to suspend Stephen A Smith after comments he made about women during the Ray Rice controversy.

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17.

CNN controversies host Lou Dobbs promoted the false conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

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CNN controversies called hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala "partisan hacks", and asked them to "stop hurting America".

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Two days later, CNN controversies published a story entitled, "How CNN controversies found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF", which labeled Reddit user "HanAssholeSolo" as the creator of the viral video.

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Kaczynski responded by stating that CNN controversies's statement was "misinterpreted", and that the user said that he was not threatened prior to his apology.

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Meanwhile, Madison Malone Kircher of New York magazine opined that CNN controversies could have avoided the internet vigilantism if the network had simply published his identity, as is common in similar situations, criticizing their decision to "protect" the user.

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On March 12,2019, lawyers of Nick Sandmann, who was involved in the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation, filed a lawsuit on his behalf against CNN controversies, seeking in damages, for allegedly "vicious" and "direct attacks" towards Sandmann.

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In July 2021, CNN controversies made an announcement that it will be the official broadcaster for the Expo 2020 Dubai, which was to be inaugurated in October 2021.

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Human rights group Freedom Forward criticized the agreement between the Emirates and CNN controversies, and urged for the media house to be transparent about their relationship with the Arab nation, both on the financial and contractual terms.

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