Posted on 7/26/2006, 6:08:34 AM by Lorianne
I was in Germany last week to speak at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the German Foreign Ministry; while there I caught enough of CNN to disgust me utterly, and I posted about it here. Now, in "CNN's Robertson Now Admits: Hezbollah 'Had Control' of His Anti-Israel Piece," Rich Noyes explains what was wrong: CNN has allowed itself to become a propaganda arm of Hizballah.
Better late than never? On CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, CNN’s senior international correspondent Nic Robertson added all of the caveats and disclaimers that he should have included in his story last week that amounted to his giving an uncritical forum for the terrorist group Hezbollah to spout unverifiable anti-Israeli propaganda. Back on July 18, Hezbollah took Robertson and his crew on a tour of a heavily damaged south Beirut neighborhood. The Hezbollah “press officer” even instructed the CNN camera: “Just look. Shoot. Look at this building. Is it a military base? Is it a military base, or just civilians living in this building?”
In his original story, Robertson had no complaints about the journalistic limitations of a story put together under such tight controls, and Robertson himself at one point seemed to agree with the Hezbollah propaganda claim that Israeli jets had targeted a civilian area: “As we run past the rubble, we see much that points to civilian life, no evidence apparent of military equipment.”
Challenged by Reliable Sources host (and Washington Post media writer) Howard Kurtz on Sunday, Robertson suggested Hezbollah has “very, very sophisticated and slick media operations,” that the terrorist group “had control of the situation. They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn't have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath,” and he even contradicted Hezbollah’s self-serving spin: “There's no doubt that the [Israeli] bombs there are hitting Hezbollah facilities.”
Read it all.
They got away with it once. Now they have done it again. It gets easier and easier when they realize there is little or no price to pay.
People do funny things when they get over their head in a situation and some inbred is pointing his Paki-made AK knockoff at them.
I saw his original broadcast and it was disgusting. He appeared to be just a total shill lapping up and agreeing with everything his terrorist "guide" told him. Classic CNN reporting.
CNN has allowed itself to become a propaganda arm of Hizballah.
The talk like this just happened this week. This has been going on with the MSM for a very long time. Decades.
The only thing CNN regrets is that it got caught.
It's not the first time Nic Robertson has transmitted enemy propaganda through his reporting. That whole Middle East bureau of CNN is an embarrassment.
Why is this even news? What unique information is being transmitted that was not generally known?
What was the guys name that helped the British against America in the 1770's?
History repeating itself...
Once?! This is corporate policy for CNN - whatever it takes to get the story; including enabling terrorist to murder and evade capture.
I'm serious, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba - you name the place, CNN is they tyrant's choice for media whore.
Note my long running tag line...
Hezbolla selling CNN on its lie that military installations could not be located among the civilian Lebanese population makes it news, and is absolutely not generally known.
I see the Queen of Persia Christiane Amonpour has finally arrived in Israel today.
Expect the Hezbollah propaganda to increase 100 fold now on CNN now.
She's been spewing anti-Israel hate and propaganda for decades.
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Penny ante boys... How long before CNN pauses broadcasting 5 times a day in recognition of Islamic prayer times?
CNN Friday: "The Care and Cleaning of Burkhas and the AK-47" Tune in at 10:00 PM.
CNN Saturday: "Suicide Bombers... Victims in Disguise" Tune in at 7:00 PM. (Gaza and West Bank broadcasts in HDTV!)
CNN Sunday: No broadcast in recognition of diversity, inclusiveness and moral equivocation.
bravo!
SaDan Blather???? or was is Walter Durante/Cronkite????
Tailgunner Joe WAS RIGHT! He went about it very sloppily, with less than adequate arms and ammo though.
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