The lede sentence of a CNN “news” story this past weekend describes Elon Musk’s DOGE as “the chaos-causing Department of Government Efficiency.”

That is quite a pejorative for a news story supposedly based on facts not opinions, but at least CNN provided a link to “chaos-causing,” to verify the accuracy of the charge, and so against our better judgment, we went ahead and clicked on it. Here’s the story that popped up:

And guess who wrote that story? CNN’s source was…itself.  In other words, it must be true because we said it ourselves. So there you have it: the mainstream media admits it’s just a giant echo chamber.