CNN didn't get 'anything' wrong in Russiagate reporting, host claims. Did it?
The host of CNN's 'State of the Union,' Jake Tapper, has tried to defend the network's coverage of 'Russgate', claiming it actually got nothing wrong. The bold claim, however, was challenged by other journalists.
Tapper made the controversial remark while talking to the acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday.
"I'm not sure what you're saying the media got wrong. The media reported the investigation was going on. Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I don't know anybody that got anything wrong," Tapper stated.
Tapper says he's unaware of any mistakes CNN made in its Russiagate coverage: "I don’t know anybody got anything wrong. We didn’t say there was conspiracy. We said Mueller was investigating conspiracy."
Then suggests we don't know if the Mueller report exonerates Trump. pic.twitter.com/0RaXd8NnKk
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 31, 2019
Mulvaney shot back at what he called Tapper's personal "recollection of history."
"Face it, the media got this wrong. It's okay. People get stuff wrong all the time, just not at this level," he said.
Tapper's defense of the 'balanced' CNN coverage raised a few eyebrows among the journalist community, as some took to Twitter to challenge the claim and bring up embarrassing retractions of the stories on the "collusion" the network had to make.
As usual, @JakeTapper was a rare balanced and sober voice on cable news throughout most of this debacle. But the idea that CNN got nothing wrong is, with due respect, absurd. MSNBC led the way in unhinged conspiracy-mongering but CNN had at least 3 major, humiliating retractions: https://t.co/IYo0BIiMjg
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 31, 2019
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