CNN chief stands by Iraq omissions

Washington Times ^ | Saturday, April 12, 2003 | By Jennifer Harper

[JohnHuang2]

CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan yesterday disclosed that his network withheld details of Saddam Hussein's brutality from its coverage to protect CNN employees.

Alarming facts about secret police, abductions, beatings, dismemberment and assassinations under the Iraqi dictator were not reported to the public, Mr. Jordan wrote, "because doing so would have jeopardized Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."

[JohnHuang2]

Saturday, April 12, 2003

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[ambrose]

"All the news that's fit to print."

[Kudsman]

"If accurate reporting from Iraq was impossible, why was access to this dictatorship so important in the first place? And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states — like North Korea, Cuba and Syria — are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?" Mr. Noyes said.

Do tell Mr. Jordan.

[Jhoffa_]

Wonder what else they are hiding.. ?

I bet this will do lousy things for their ratings. Whenever you see a smilin' reporter on CNN you have to wonder if someone's being tortured just off camera.

[JohnHuang2]

I bet CNN has the same 'see-no-evil, hear-no-evil' "policy" with Castro's Cuba.

[CaptSkip]

CNN...The Most Trusted Name in News. </sarcasm>

[ambrose]

I wonder if CNN was airing pro-Saddam puff pieces around the same time the brutality was taking place...

[backhoe]

"I bet CNN has the same 'see-no-evil, hear-no-evil' "policy" with Castro's Cuba."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/544622/posts
CASTRO AND THE INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, A CHRONOLOGY
Institute for Cuban &amp; Cuban-American Studies | September 2001 | Eugene Pons

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/665733/posts
Fidel Castro - Cuba
various LINKS to articles | April 14, 2002

[Jhoffa_]

I bet CNN has the same 'see-no-evil, hear-no-evil' "policy" with Castro's Cuba.

It's certainly possible.. Hell, who knows after these glaring lapses?

One thing's for certain though, people can't trust CNN to be "fair and balanced" I don't think that message will be lost on cable news junkies and politically savvy types.

Fox 1, CNN 0

[TLBSHOW]

This is the Arab point of view and Christiane Amanpour is airing it. I don't know what she knew about what was going on in Iraq, but my guess is she knew much more than what her network was reporting. If I'm wrong, why wouldn't Eason Jordan take aside CNN's lead infobabe on the ground and tell her what's going on there?

Instead he leaves her out to dry, and here she is taking the Arab side of all of this on CNN, under the guise of objective news, defending the regime of Saddam Hussein

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891326/posts?page=
Rush Limbaugh

[SkyPilot]

CNN's Credibility

[SkyPilot]

This is the Arab point of view and Christiane Amanpour is airing it.

The War Slut was too busy posing for one of Uday's semi-nude paintings on black velvet.

[RichInOC]

VO (James Earl Jones): They decide...We report. This is CNN.

[KingKongCobra]

They could have just had Uday fax the stories in.
Maybe it looks more like real news if you can have a reporter read it from Bagdad.

[TLBSHOW]

To him, it was critical to have a CNN presence in Iraq, no matter what. As a result, many things that CNN knew about went unreported.

It would have been better to have no journalists in Iraq, since they couldn’t tell us what was really happening, anyway. Viewers would have known there might be awful things going on in Baghdad. But suspecting and not seeing would have been better than seeing reporters, and not being told by them about the awful things happening beyond the cameras.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/rt20030412.shtml

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Castro (not CNN) sends unequivocal message with execution of hijackers, crackdown

And our children are being indoctrinated right here under our noses.

Professors take on role as high priests of activism***Journalism professor Robert Jensen, who has taught at UT since 1992, became politically active after the United States bombed Iraq in 1998. "It was clear the UT campus was not a hotbed of political activity at that point," he said. "That's partly what was motivating me." Jensen organized and built a network of student and community activists. But his work took an unexpected turn after Sept. 11. Three days later, Jensen published a letter in the Chronicle saying the terrorist acts were "no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism" committed by the United States. ***

[JoeGar]

When will CNN reveal to us why they are the only US news network to whom Castro granted a Cuban bureau? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

[PJ-Comix]

And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states — like North Korea, Cuba and Syria — are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?"

All of CNN's Havana Bureau chief Lucia Newman's reports on Cuba are nothing but feel-good happy talk.

[river rat]

Am I the only one to notice that when Christiane Amanpour speaks --- her lips seem to form a natural Lewinsky curl.....

How can anyone believe the War Whore.....

Semper Fi