The problems at CNN run far deeper than these 3 sacrificial lambs. Nothing will change.

This story is continuing the brain washing of the sheeple . In this charade the Trump- Russian collusion bullshit is splashed into the ears of the anti-fa crowd and sticks like glue in their heads.
The resignations will be news and the unconscious will miss the point that it is a fake story. Their attention span is a blink of an eye.

Haris in resigning said, in a statement to CNN's "Reliable Sources," noted that he'd been with CNN since 2001, "and am sure about one thing: This is a news organization that prizes accuracy and fairness above all else. I am leaving, but will carry those principles wherever I go."

Even though He just acted quite opposite of those so called principals but now he really respects them. Right

To be clear.
The GLOBALIST Own the Media.
The Media Sets Policy/Determines how people feel about things (Notice how pictures of babies are used to GET a war reaction, but NEVER from a "lone wolf")?

We are being led down the rabbit hole.
They clarify "radical Islamist" but never "Immigrant" (Illegal Aliens are NOT Immigrants).

Sanctuary City has 2 flavors:
Compassionate Sanctuary City like Rudy had, where we DONT ASK if you are HELPING the police, or are a VICTIM.

And a CRIMINAL Sanctuary City which the LEFT devolved it into. Where we HIDE you from Federalis...

It is all PRAVDA All the time.

Fox is only more fair, but still on Message. Notice how they don't bring on deep conversations with 2 "Climate Deniers" to really just lamb baste the "Climate Change" fraudsters?

But CNN will put on 2 Climate Change Alarmists to scream about how the Deniers are killing us all...

It has been this way FOREVER.

Then the INTERNET happened.

Now they cannot hide it. They have always been a tool to persuade us to choose what is NOT good for us, just like their Drug Commercials do.

Three resignations from CNN isn't enough. The entire network should resign. Then again, maybe they should stick around. Most people know that they peddle fake news and are laughable. Unintentionally, they could become the Left's worse enemy.

"or did they get threatened quietly with a lawsuit?"
More likely there are some powerful people involved in that story who don't want to see it published. No evidence, just speculation on my part.

Somehow they got caught. I could care less about Russia exposing Hillary’s misdeeds. We needed to know what she did

Talk about "Fake News."
It simply doesn't matter to CNN or NY Times, or Washington Post or NBC. If the story doesn't come out in a way that agrees with their agenda, they simply make it up. They'll keep up the lie until someone catches them in it but they never apologize for misleading their readers/viewers. When Trump was a joke, the lies were amusing. As he became a real contender, the lies proliferated and never before in the history of journalism has hatred driven the media to such an extent that lying became the norm rather than the exception. And, it continues.

Usually you need two independent reliable sources before publishing. This reduces the chance that the story is not true. They didn't do this.

Some real investigative reporting has gathered evidence of the deeper truth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8T...

"But, all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you're just like, that's adorable. That's adorable. This is a business."

Vice Media has retracted two stories claiming that President Donald Trump's White House was feuding with Disney World management.
6/28/2017
"Here's the Secret Backstage Trump Drama at Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents" Vice Media's Motherboard site reported on May 19. A month later, the outlet published a second piece along the same lines, headlined, "Behind the Scenes of Disney's Donald Trump ‘Hall of Presidents' Installation."

Both stories claimed that there was "behind-the-scenes drama and internal machinations" about whether Trump would have a speaking role in Disney's Hall of the Presidents. According to the original stories, Disney and the Trump team were butting heads over what the animatronic Trump would say at the conclusion of the attraction.

But on Wednesday, two days after the second piece was published, both stories were replaced with an editor's note.

"After a thorough investigation into the sourcing of two stories … and the identification of several factual errors, we have decided to retract both pieces," Vice announced.

"We are conducting a full editorial review to pinpoint how this source was vetted, and how these stories were approved and published in violation of our usual editorial workflow," the publication's editors said. "We fell short of our standards, and regret the error."