Last week, when news was breaking that President Trump reportedly asked then-FBI director James Comey to end the agency’s investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the pro-Trump stenographers at CNSNews.com knew they couldn’t devote space to a story that makes their hero look bad.
So what did CNS report instead? A months-old story about Osama bin Laden.
CNS editor in chief Terry Jeffrey did the honors himself with a May 17 article:
Among the materials that U.S. forces retrieved from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was a document (labeled “Letter providing direction”) in which the author, who speaks as if he is bin Laden himself, advised those he was directing to seek a deal with “any American TV station” to run a videotape he planned to produce in the fall of 2004.
But he specifically nominated CBS as his own candidate for broadcasting the tape.
In the end, al Qaida did release a videotape of bin Laden that was broadcast on Oct. 29, 2004—by Al Jazeera, not CBS.
Jeffrey went on to note that the letter was released Jan. 19 — which means Jeffrey is a good four months late to writing about it.
On the other hand, it gave Jeffrey plenty of time to crank out a 34-paragraph article on the subject. Though one would think Jeffrey had more important news to cover that day than this one.
But that’s what Jeffrey has to do to avoid honest coverage of the growing Trump scandals.