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On 3/6/23 20:48, BT wrote:

In the News:

CNN suppressed lab leak theory to hurt Trump

A CNN insider has leaked an interesting tidbit about why the network decided not to pursue the lab leak theory: it was a Trump “talking point,” and hence must be downplayed as insane.

CNN has long referred to itself as “the most trusted name in news” and famously launched its “Facts First” campaign during the Trump era, but like many other outlets, that sentiment fell by the wayside when it came to the COVID lab-leak theory.

In recent days, the theory that COVID originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been embraced by FBI Director Christopher Wray and a bombshell report indicated that the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely started in

the lab, a sentiment expressed by top Trump administration officials nearly from the outset.

But in the early months of the pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab-leak story because he believed it was a “Trump talking point,” according to a well-placed CNN insider.

Yes.
Amazingly biased and partisan.

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a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote in news:sOKNL.1044667$Tcw8.15605@fx10.iad:

On 3/6/23 20:48, BT wrote:

In the News:

CNN suppressed lab leak theory to hurt Trump

A CNN insider has leaked an interesting tidbit about why the network
decided not to pursue the lab leak theory: it was a Trump “talking
point,” and hence must be downplayed as insane.

CNN has long referred to itself as “the most trusted name in
news” and famously launched its “Facts First” campaign during
the Trump era, but like many other outlets, that sentiment fell by
the wayside when it came to the COVID lab-leak theory.

In recent days, the theory that COVID originated from a lab leak at
the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been embraced by FBI Director
Christopher Wray and a bombshell report indicated that the U.S.
Energy Department believes the virus likely started in the lab, a
sentiment expressed by top Trump administration officials nearly from
the outset.

But in the early months of the pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff
Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab-leak story
because he believed it was a “Trump talking point,” according to
a well-placed CNN insider.

Yes.
Amazingly biased and partisan.

There's all sorts of BS going around - including the claim COVID was circulating in Europe years before it showed up in China.

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