According to court documents exclusively obtained by NewsBusters, CNN has apparently requested the court to seal mentions and quotes from their journalistic standards, effectively barring them from being viewed by the public in the $1 billion defamation suit against the Cable News Network.
Hiding their journalistic standards from the people who are supposed to trust them as a news source is the exact opposite of what organizations like the Associated Press and The New York Times, which intentionally make theirs publicly available.
As NewsBusters previously reported on August 13, CNN was ordered to turn over their journalistic conduct and social media guidelines to Plaintiff and U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young. CNN was given 14 days to turn over both sets of guidelines, which they had been refusing to do, arguing that fact discovery was already…
