CNN releases emails to push back on claim about scripted town hall question

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

CNN released emails from a network producer on Friday that appear to contradict a Florida high school student's claim that the network scripted a question that he was supposed to ask at a televised town hall event this week.

Colton Haab, a survivor of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., said Thursday on Fox News that CNN had initially asked him to "write a speech and ask questions” for the event but that a producer ultimately scripted a question for him. CNN has denied that claim.

According to Business Insider, CNN and Haab agreed on the question that he would ask at the town hall. His father, Glenn Haab, pulled his son out of the event after the network refused to let the student read a lengthy speech at the event.

The Haabs' also appeared to provide doctored emails to media outlets to back up the claim that CNN scripted the questions, Business Insider reported. CNN's version of the email showed that the producer wrote she wanted the student to stick to a question "that he submitted," but that phrase was omitted in the version released by the family.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/375401-cnn-releases-emails-to-push-back-on-claim-about-scripted-town-hall-question

[bettyellen]

1. The father lied and used his son to do it.

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[WhiteTara]

11. eww that thought

made me

[mountain grammy]

2. Are the screen shots of Cameron Kasky's

facebook posts from 201I7 real, do you know? I saw someone post them and have been looking around but can't find if they're real or not. Just wondered if you'd seen any of that?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. has tweet

The article shows a tweet from TrumPutin at the end. I was under the impression that twitter purged the Russian bots a few days ago. Somebody should tell them they missed one.

[SunSeeker]

4. Looks like his boy's dad really failed him.

He let (indeed, probably cajoled) his kid to carry on with a lie that he should have known would be exposed. Now the whole country knows his kid is a liar. Good luck with those college applications.

[Cha]

5. Good.. who knew we'd be

on CNN's side!

[stopbush]

6. Everyday Rs think they can get away with lying the same way tRump, Ryan, McConnell

et al get away with lying.

They can’t.

Sad.

[Hav]

7. I'm glad CNN came forward with it but the Trumpets will still continue their lies

CNN's initial reply that they can prove it sounded a bit weak so it's good that they fight back. The Haabs could simply provide the actual e-mail they received and not what they copy-pasted into a word document if they still feel they are right.

[SayItLoud]

8. Faux News will surely

have all their pundits condemning themselves for NOT checking the facts before airing the incorrect report. Let's see who gets suspended and fired for this latest RIGHT WING NUT CONSPIRACY. (Don't hold your breath)

[Honeycombe8]

9. Yeah, I read that. The whole thing by the kid & parent was a lie.

He wanted to give a speech, cloaked with a question in there somewhere. But it was a townhall for short QUESTIONS and ANSWERS, and discussion. Not a series of speeches.

[mainer]

10. Business Insider has entire email chain posted. Proves father and son lied.

The question that CNN approved for him to ask was word-for-word (including a typo) the same question that Colton submitted to her in his email. CNN just added an introductory sentence.

Here's the question that Colton wanted to ask. It's in Colton's email to the CNN producer:

"Have we thought about having a class for teachers who are willing to be armed trained to carry on campus?" (note; the typo is Colton's.)

In the CNN producer's email to Glenn Haab, the kid's father, she writes that this is the question Colton should ask on TV:

"Senator Nelson, if Coach Feis had had his firearm in school that day, I believe that he could have most likely stopped the threat. Have we thought about having a class for teachers who are willing to be armed trained to carry on campus?"

Clearly the CNN producer cut and pasted Colton's actual question, including the typo. She did not edit his question.


http://www.businessinsider.com/parkland-shooting-survivors-family-shops-doctored-cnn-emails-to-media-2018-2

[obamanut2012]

12. His fellow students here are really pissed at him for doing it

They think he disrespected their dead classmates and teachers. I actually think this will make him a pariah at school, when they return on Tuesday.