So I absolutely excoriated CNN’s Brian Stelter for not covering this fairly huge story about CNN having to issue a retraction of a story against a Trump advisor this week.







Well that story has blown up in CNN’s face.

CNN said Monday that three journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, have resigned after the publication of a Russia-related article that was retracted. Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN. “In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” a spokesman said Monday evening. An internal investigation by CNN management found that some standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published, people briefed on the results of the investigation said.

Wow, maybe you should have covered that frickin’ story on your cable news show instead of interviewing Phil Donahue, huh Stelter?!

The story, which reported that Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials,” cited a single anonymous source. These types of stories are typically reviewed by several departments within CNN — including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers — before publication. This breakdown in editorial workflow disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.

You can read about the story they retracted here, which claimed Anthony Scaramucci had connections to the Russian government.