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These points are well made, although CNN probably didn't have the option of getting their Iraqi employees out of Baghdad. It was still pathetic that they let these few block telling the story for the sake of the many - I have no doubt there was some way to have handled this besides keeping silent.

But don't journalists believe that THEY are the ones that know best? After all, everyone else has a bias - only the journalist acts strictly without self interest, right?

The argument about the Palestinians is an excellent one. A free nation like Israel is stuck with a free press, but if the anger the Palestinians, they may wind up with no access.

Last, this man's confession makes me wonder how much Dan Rather knows! What kind of idiot journalist would land an interview with Saddam Hussein and fail to ask ONE SINGLE QUESTION that anyone would be interested in hearing him answer? He interviews the modern equivalent of Hitler and lets him posture like he's today's equivalent of Mohatma Gandhi (comments about how he was born following Allah, and how world leaders should act without aggression!!!) without being called on it? Why do the interview at all?

Com out, Dan Rather, come out from behind that curtain!

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[bjcintennessee]

There should be a law that requires any reporter on foreign soil that his/her "minder" stand on-screen beside the reporter, as a warning to viewers that the report is being censored.

-- Not that I ever believe CNN anyway. Their bias against Bush has been obvious from the beginning, but their silence in order to stay in Baghdad as Suddam's propoganda machine is heinous.

[lilylangtree]

Good for Rush! He made some points that I made in a post earlier on the same subject. Salute, Rush!

[Kudsman]

I can't stand the way Woodruff,Brown,Blitzer and Amannpour interject their own opinions with every comment they make and then try make like those opinions are news. Woodruff really bugs me the most. When someone makes a report she doesn't like, she states her own opinion as the last word as if it is the gospel! I wish I could get Foxnews without having to cough up another 10 bucks a month. Guess thats why I would rather read the news.

YUCK the face of Liberal bias. I can hear her condscending voice now.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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[rolling_stone]

Cnn keeps saying they are "the most trusted name in news" I think they should be sued for fraud.....

[jordan8]

CNN's behavior has not been exactly heroic in this case. But what is political correctness other than saying (or not saying) things you don't believe under threat of having a rod brought down on your head? First stones, and all that.

[Bullish]

They've been over for years. The only folks who watch CNN are ignorant sheeple, who want to believe the worst about Bush and Republicans.