[dogleash]

Everyone who uses the web visually scans pages to hone in directly on where they think the content is. The question isn't whether or not whoever added that disclaimer meant for it to be visually ignored (they did), the question is whether they did eye-tracking testing to make sure it's ignored (yea, probably).

The disclaimer is disingenuous, because they're trading on the idea people will ignore it, while they can turn around and say everyone is in group of people who not only read the text, but also understand what "independently from the CNN newsroom" is a euphemism for.

[w0m]

the disclaimer is at the top of every page, and OP here is pretending his sleuthing anything other than an (idealogically/politically motivated?) disingenuous hit piece.

"look at the HTML it catches the lie!" - meanwhile, the 'lie' also exposed in clear text in a banner across the top of page. 1337 h4xing indeed.