Former CNN President Told Staffers Not To Track Down COVID Lab-Leak Theory
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The mainstream media covered up the origins of COVID because they didn’t want to admit Trump was right.
A new report says that then-CNN President told staffers not to track down the lab-leak story. Zucker called it a “Trump talking point.”
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.
“People are slowly waking up from the fog,” the insider told Fox News Digital. “It is kind of crazy that we didn’t chase it harder.”
Left-wing news outlets falsely claimed the theory was debunked.
Critics also homed in on left-leaning cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC.
Tom Elliott, an independent journalist, posted a lengthy thread on his Twitter feed showing clips of MSNBC and CNN personalities dismissing the possibility of the lab leak as a “conspiracy theory.”
Elliott directed his followers’ attention to a video showing Joy Reid saying that the lab leak theory was “debunked bunkum.” Another clip features “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough referring to the possibility of a lab leak as a “conspiracy theory.”
Two other clips show CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Drew Griffin referring to the lab leak as either a “conspiracy theory” or “widely debunked.”
The mainstream press should apologize to the American people.
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