CNN knew

The Washington Times ^ | Monday April 14 2003 | EDITORIAL

[Brian Allen]

Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, published in the New York Times a truly rare article last Friday: an op-ed capable of genuinely shocking even world-weary cynics in a jaded world. He announced that, over the last dozen years: "I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard - awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."

[Brian Allen]

As I have been writing here and elsewhere for years -- including in a book I once offered FR's "Trixie," Eason's Baghdad revelations -- for which he and his every co-mass-murderer aught be tried [In the "international courts" set up and operated by CNN's client-state henchmen?] and sentenced to long prison terms -- are but the tip of the iceberg.

Whether in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Khartoum, Moscow, Zurich and/or Zanzibar -- and in the KKKLi'toons' "administration!" -- CNN and its every-bit-as-abjectly-corrupt international-media colleagues [Reuters, AP, BBC et al] are all the craven servants of the petty and less-than-petty dictatorships for which they shill.

Just like "our" state department's foreign service, come to that.

And the KKKli'toons "justice."

[Brian Allen]

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[Bluntpoint]

Has Hillary and Bill Clinton released their CNN prisoners taken in the 90s?

[Samurai_Jack]

I wonder what else CNN knew?

Did they know that there was going to be an attack on the WTC and the Pentagon? How far will CNN go to preserve their profitability?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

CNN and Mr. Eason also know what's going on in Cuba.

[RandallFlagg]

And here's an even funnier thought: What if some bonehead at CNN did this and thought it would boost their ratings; you know, attempting to make themselves look like the 'honest' network.

There's yet another train wreck waiting to happen....

[wastoute]

LOL, Great question! "What did CNN know, and when did they know it???"

[lsee]

ooh, you're good!

[eeriegeno]

I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me ...

Hmmm, what other stories were 'bottled up'? Sounds like Pravda to me......

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

This should be proof to the world that CNN deserves absolutely NO respect because it's incapable of reporting the truth.

[ventana]

I am waiting for Dan Rather's OPED piece. That ought to be interesting. I presume he's older then Eason and therefore more experienced in these ways. V's wife.

[The G Man]

Like my tag line says ....

Hey CNN ... "NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS!!!"

[jshermn]

The CNN new motto: All the news fit to keep us in business!!

[KeyBored]

"How far will CNN go to preserve their profitability?"

With CNN (and lump CBSNBCABC in there, too) it's not about profitability (witness their plunging ratings).

It's about moving their agenda forward.

JMHO

[friendly]

CNN was running a straight propaganda-for-profits deal with Saddam. Until CNN brings in honest news executives, no prudent viewer should trust CNN's current and future reporting from other foreign capitals.

The CNN Blood for News scandal should be an obituary for this evil democrat-run enterprise.

Obviously CNN also provides faked propaganda news from Cuba, Zimbabwe, and every other hell-hole totalitarian/socialist toilet it "reports" from.

[wgeorge2001]

"Iraq. It was the jewel in the crown of CNN's international reporting reputation. But, now we know, from the unwitting pen of CNN's morally obtuse chief news executive, that it was always a false image CNN was broadcasting. The hard news was kept secret. The propaganda flowed like wine. CNN was running a straight propaganda-for-profits deal with Saddam. Until CNN brings in honest news executives, no prudent viewer should trust CNN'scurrent and future reporting from other foreign capitals.


Hopefully, more and more people will become aware of the great danger their family's are in from the left wing communist movement and stop voting and supporting liberalism; perhaps the day will come when the public school dis-information campaign will stop.

[aristeides]

To improve on an idea I just saw on lucianne.com: CNN = Collaborator News Network.

[ClearCase_guy]

Now, mind you, I think that CNN and the NY Times would be the first to tell you that there is NOTHING going on in North Korea. No killings. No torture. No starvation of citizens who oppose the dictatorship. Heck, it's not even a dictatorship! Kim Jong Il was elected.

Any effort by the US to change the regime in North Korea would be deeply immoral -- perhaps the most immoral act in all of human history! And it would be a quagmire.

[friendly]

Oh and remember the big deal on CNN (and ABC, CBS, etc) about the 100% Iraqi "vote" for Saddam last November. I especially cherished the comments from these media maggots that Saddam had a far higher percentage vote than Bush.

[hotpotato]

And Cuba. What about CNN in Cuba?

[Paleo Conservative]

What did CNN know, and when did they know it?

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and the ping ! This story has had a LOT of coverage and commentary, and RIGHTfully so, imho!

Here is another article I'd like to link you to, and an excerpt:

The News we Kept to Ourselves

Excerpt:

Fellow Freepers, I suggest Jim Robinson add a new "Topic" category to this website: "undercovered scandal" or "crimes unpunished". This CNN story should not be forgotten. We have to keep this alive in some way. A special congressional hearing should be requested and the highest ranking members of CNN should have to answer questions. If ENRON was a scandal, what is this? CNN has real blood on their hands. There is no other way to put it. Mr. Jordan only went with the story because he knew it would come out very soon. He is trying to get pity, he should be grilled. There is an obvious lack of proportion and fairness in coverage, the media was far tougher on John Rocker and Trent Lott. CNN's license should be revoked. This has been going on for far too long. Clinton's sexual assaults allegations were thinly covered and only one was coverd after the impeachment vote. Remember, NBC waited until after the vote to run the Brodderick interview. Citizens have to be tough on CNN and other media outlets that put politics before the truth.

[dirtboy]

On Fox News Sunday's panel discussion, they let Juan Williams of PBS start out commenting on this story. He ripped CNN such a large new orifice that Bret Hume had little to add. Good to see that some liberals get this story.

[Wphile]

I agree this is a HUGE story. I have no idea what Jordan thought he would achieve with his op-ed other than a CYA. However, it isn't working. What CNN did was morally and professionally wrong. It just galls me how CNN and the like trumpet the freedom of the press in the USA but then can totally compromise that belief and set up shop and even do the bidding of a STATE OWNED press! The hypocrisy is mind boggling.

The deaths of those two men are clearly the result of CNN's covering up of the truth about Sadaam and his regime. I'm sure there are many more.

CNN - PFFFFTTTTTT!

[Brian Allen]

<< This story has had a LOT of coverage and commentary, and RIGHTfully so, imho! >>

I have spent all of my adult life "on the road" as it were, having accumulated enough flying hours in more than 40 years as a Professional Aviator [Pilot - Chief Pilot - Operations Director - Fleet owner - "Aviation Advisor" to various governments - Air Transportation Ops Consultant - etceteras] to have effectively circumnavigated the Earth more than 650 times. I've held Professional Licences in 29 countries, have lived and worked on every continent and in more than twenty countries and have at various times regularly visited more than 100 countries. More than nine thousand miles from home as I pick on my keyboard, I am still "on the road," right now."

And can attest to the fact that Eason's "revelation" does not expose even the whole tip of the obscenity that is the international "news" business [CNN and the BBC are especially rotten] -- every component part of which works in two directions so that while every one of them, in its home market, is obscenely promulgating the propaganda spewed by every one of its client states -- it is every-bit-as-obscenely maintaining an obsessively anti-American stance and is misrepresenting and misreporting American "news" abroad. CNN and the BBC and AP and Reuters among others are virilently anti-American to the extent, in CNN's case especially, of being subversive.

But then -- and again from years of first-hand experience, including that gained inside our embassies during periods as a foreign-based and widely traveling Aviation Advisor -- so is "our" state department's hatred-and-rage-driven foreign "service."

Best ones -- Brian

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[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the info, FRiend ! bttt . . .

And can attest to the fact that Eason's "revelation" does not expose even the whole tip of the obscenity that is the international "news" business [CNN and the BBC are especially rotten] -- every component part of which works in two directions so that while every one of them, in its home market, is obscenely promulgating the propaganda spewed by every one of its client states -- it is every-bit-as-obscenely maintaining an obsessively anti-American stance and is misrepresenting and misreporting American "news" abroad. CNN and the BBC and AP and Reuters among others are virilently anti-American to the extent, in CNN's case especially, of being subversive.

The Al-Jazeera's of the Western world.

[MeekOneGOP]

bumpity bumpity !!

[Mia T]

CNNs of Commission _{Q ERTY8} ^BUMP!

[Brian Allen]

You are much beloved of G-d, Beautiful Lady -- and of me.

Blessings -- Brian

[nutmeg]

CNNs of Commission... brilliant, Mia!

[MeekOneGOP]

[Howlin]

LOL.

Lest we forget.

[MeekOneGOP]

:O)

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