The implications of this article, the full depth of the crimes CNN has committed, are flabbergasting. Jordan's confession is almost matter-of-fact, just skimming along the surface of CNN's depravity, but if you scratch that surface and read between the lines, the full impact of their behavior is far more than the few details he recounts. For twelve years, CNN not only suppressed the truth, they reported Saddam's propaganda just to keep their office in Baghdad and keep their staff from being tortured and killed. They have functioned as the Iraqi Ministry of Propaganda, spreading Saddam's lies all over the world and increasing anti-Americanism everywhere.
CNN isn't just complicit in torture and murder. CNN also served as a bonafide mouthpiece for Saddam's regime, for twelve long years, parroting Saddam's lies while portraying him as a victim of American lies. They NEVER reported objectively, because doing so would have threatened their staff and gotten them kicked out of Baghdad. When faced with the prohibition of reporting the truth, they failed to do the honorable thing, which was to pull its staff out and leave Baghdad. They chose to remain, even though it meant they were forced to report Saddam's lies. By covering up what was going on in Iraq, they condemned thousands of Iraqis to death over those twelve years, and despite knowing what was going on, they did their damnedest to fan the flames of anti-war fervor and portray Bush as a criminal. Even now, they continue to slant their news against Bush and the war, when they know Saddam was guilty as sin. And they do this even though Saddam is no longer around to threaten them. They made a pact with the devil which they cannot break, even now, and the damage they have done is incalculable.
This article was first posted a couple of days ago, and there's tons of discussion on that thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/890515/postsAnd let us not be so blinded by the awful revelations of CNN's [AND BBC's and Reuters' and AP's et al] criminal conspiracy and having been accessory to rape and murder and torture and lying and looting and other horrors in Baghdad that we lose site of the media' whores' willing participation in endless criminal activites with the petty and not-so-petty dictators of all of its client states.
In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Rangoon, Khartoum and Karachi, Moscow and Peking -- and until not all that long ago in the KKKli'toons' "administration," CNN et al serve only their own interests -- and those of their Evil, gangster-politician client-state masters
THANK YOU for posting the link to the original NYT article!
I knew all along that I wanted to bookmark it, from the moment Rush Limbaugh discussed it. I was in my car at the time, and by the time I could get to a computer all I was finding was critiques like this Opinion Journal piece, not the original mea culpa.