No, Pete Hegseth, CNN isn’t reporting “fake news” about the U.S. bombing of Iran.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper played several clips Thursday that showed Defense Secretary Hegseth’s criticism of the coverage is completely unfounded. At a news conference that day, Hegseth had critiqued the reporting by MSNBC, The New York Times, and others, but particularly what he called “fake news CNN.”
But “a number of the claims he made about the reporting were not accurate,” the out journalist said in a segment titled "He Said, We Said" on Anderson Cooper 360.
Hegseth complained about the “fawning coverage” of an initial assessment of the damage done by U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities; the assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency said the bombing set Iran’s nuclear program back by only a few months and didn’t obliterate it, as Donald Trump had said. Hegseth said the coverage didn’t note the preliminary nature of the report.
Cooper showed, however, that he and his outlet had emphasized that the assessment was preliminary and that much more information could come to light. In a clip he played, he called the intelligence report “very preliminary” and said a “deeper assessment is being done.”
Hegseth went on to allege that CNN and other prominent media companies didn’t say Iran’s nuclear facilities had been destroyed or severely damaged by the strikes from the U.S. and Israel. He cited an Israeli Atomic Energy Commission report that concluded the U.S. bombing had rendered one...
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