The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]

The New York Times ^ | 04/11/03 | EASON JORDAN

[Beck_isright]

It's probably not too late now. Apparently the company which prides itself on PC will go down to .0001 to uphold their principles, LOL!!!!!

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[Howlin]

Now I've forgotten what article it was.........LOL.

[Toskrin]

Today is a good day to short AOL stock.

Well, any day in the last four years would have been a good day to short AOL stock. They can't go much farther down when their pants are already around their ankles...

[Pagey]

"...Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported..."
Ohhhh,I'll bet he did.<---dripping sarcasm What he mean to say is "We Chose Not To Report"

"...Again, we could not broadcast anything these men said to us..."
Actually, "They Chose not to broadcast anything..."

"......If we had gone with the story...I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me...Still, I felt I had a moral obligation to warn Jordan's monarch...
If I'm supposed to 'feel this guy's pain' by him getting this off his chest in the N.Y. Slimes waste of a Rag, just for the record, it didn't work.

[Beck_isright]

Bad news still makes for great shorts. Just think, .0001 isn't that far away now. FREE MONEY!!!!!

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[Bryan24]

They are part of the story, not reporting it.

Eason Jordan doesn't see what he's done wrong. They wheeled and dealed for better access. The price was silence on crimes against humanity. He just doesn't see it.

Other news organizations played the game to some extent. Most indicated that they were being censored. None of them (that we know of) had access to the point they were appraised of assasination plans by Uday Hussein. And were CONTINUALLY given top access through deals.

They just don't see that they were helping the regime.

[Bigg Red]

They are as guilty as the regime if they knew this was happening and still prostrated themselves just to get a story.


Agreed! What a slimeball!

[annieokie]

BUMP

[wolf6656]

"To me, Mr. Jordan is simply swiching sides, in a "Yeah, those guys" fashion, right after they are all caught red handed.

Like others in this thread, I'm most interested in what CNN knows about the Clinton regieme in exactly the same set of circumstances.
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Yes the Clinton administration knew these things as well as CNN. When Clinton would not stand up to Iraq, CNN should have pulled out, if they were a legitimate news agency, which I don't believe they are.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Other news organizations played the game to some extent. Most indicated that they were being censored. None of them (that we know of) had access to the point they were appraised of assasination plans by Uday Hussein. And were CONTINUALLY given top access through deals.

And so far as I know, none of them so blatantly and deliberately lied to the American people about the nature of their reporting in Iraq.

[PoisedWoman]

The most immediate way to clean up the media sewer is to keep sending along good information and unbiased articles to our personal email lists...and of course, to support the media that does present straightforward news.

Whenever I see an unbiased piece in a usually biased news source, I take 4 seconds to send a congratulatory email to the author...and usually get nice notes back thanking me for my support. I think it's really important to prop up the good guys all we can...it cannot be easy for them to keep their heads above the effluvia in the media sewer.

Gee, why am I talking about media bias? As of today, we can OFFICIALLY call it media corruption.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Well, if their pants are around their ankles, it's probably a good thing they've got great shorts.

[PhilDragoo]

: THE TORTURER'S APPRENTICE

[pointsal]

After thinking about this article, I just can't help feeling resentful and upset that CNN has knowingly contributed to the deaths of our troops and untold numbers of civilians in Iraq. CNN must be on the short list of scumbag broadcasters.

[Bigg Red]

This is just incredible. These CNN jerks have blood on their hands.

[P-Marlowe]

One cheer for Jordan for coming clean about his network's collaboration with a brutal fascist regime.

This was not voluntary on his part, it was a pre-emptive attempt to deflect the crap that was sure to hit the fan.

It all makes sense now as to why CNN seemed so utterly opposed to this war. This war would free the Iraqis of the Saddam regime and then the People of Iraq would tell the truth that CNN had buried.

I can only hope that every CNN news pass for the new Iraqi regime will be revoked and that CNN will be treated with the same contempt that the Iraqi people now hold for the old State Run TV.

BTW if CNN was not going to run any story that was not essentially pre-approved by the Saddam regime, then what did we need CNN for? Why didn't they just simulcast the Iraqi News Network. The news was the same.

[Rocko]

Sean Hannity is talking about this.

[peeve23]

Make no mistake, CNN cannot fire Jordan. He knows the entire network is complicit and will easily drop the dime on them.

CNN did not come out with this accidentally. No matter how they spin it, it's entirely too damaging to have just "shared because the regime fell."

This has all the earmarks of a pre-emptive revelation. They know that the Hussein regime was meticulous at record keeping. They know that our people will be inside those governmental and information ministry offices going through their papers.

They know that more is coming out.

If this is the best spin they can put on it...can you imagine how damaging it's gonna be!!??

[Freedom2specul8]

WASHINGTON, April 11 (AFP) - Iraqi intelligence agents planned an attack on CNN television journalists working in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq in March, after Iraq's information minister warned the network against sending reporters to the region, a top CNN executive said Friday. The executive, Eason Jordan, said the plot was uncovered by Kurdish police, who arrested two men who identified themselves as Iraqi intelligence agents.

[3D-JOY]

Bump!