Left Leaning Fact Checking Site Snopes Lies About CNN Staging Protest

Facebook is using Snopes to “fact check” fake news on their site.

Video in question originally from Mark Antro:

Snopes released their article claiming that the CNN staging of the London protesters was false. Their reasoning is that it’s “normal” for this kind of a thing to happen.

They gave this quote by Mediaite:

For those not familiar with live news production, it is actually not that uncommon for hosts and producers to arrange protesters or pedestrians behind reporter to provide a varied background. Sources familiar with this live shoot tell Mediaite that the protesters (“Muslim Mothers”) were already very near the location and the Police simply allowed them to move behind Ms. Anderson and crew. That said, there is reason to fairly critique this as “editorializing” the shoot and not just reporting the news. And in a climate where CNN is feeling a lot of criticism — most of which is unfounded — from the conservative corners of the Internet, this footage won’t help their cause.

This is our problem with journalism and why more people just want to see live events as they are happening. It’s also unethical to arrange protesters or anyone in any kind of fashion. You can see it in the video where they tell them exactly where to stand. How do we know the entire thing wasn’t from a bunch of paid protesters with pre-made signs? That is the problem as we don’t know. We just have their word. We know there was an actual event but how do we know these individuals were from the event and not paid?

CNN’s statement is also full of it.

This story is nonsense. The group of demonstrators that was at the police cordon was being allowed through by officers so they could show their signs to the gathered media. The CNN crew along with other media present simply filmed them doing so.

No, they were not being let in to just “show” their signs to the media. The actual video shows them setting up the scene, showing the protesters where to stand and how they should look. They staged the entire thing.

I underlined the parts that directly apply to the context of what CNN did. This information below is from the NPAA Code of Ethics: