[maestro]

Journalists in bed with Dictators

?......Again....?

[MEG33]

I am amazed that anyone thought the truth was/is reported from any country that has state ruled press.The fact that they were paying off some reporters is a real slam on journalists' integrity. I am aware ..and so are many in America that agenda driven reporting is rampant.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Everyone should read this one:

Saddam's Cash

From deep in the article we have this:

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In July 1998, "a committee was formed to improve Iraqi propaganda in the region. It would establish relationships and provide financial support to Arab journalists . . . as well as other Arab journalists in Europe. The Iraqi Intelligence Service, which sat on the committee, was instructed to increase financial support to journalists controlled by Iraq."

Two years later, apparently not satisfied with the work of the existing propaganda mechanism,

Saddam created another committee under [Tariq] Aziz, to expand and improve media operations worldwide . . . by financing . . . friendly newspapers and other media outlets, giving the owners and workers awards and monthly salaries, and bringing them to Baghdad to coordinate. The Ministry of Culture and Information, IIS, Baath Party and the Iraqi Press Association, which is headed by Uday Husayn, were represented on the committee.

[spodefly]

Had "journalists" in Iraq back in 1991 been filing truthful reports about Saddam being hated among his people and reported on the uprising against him in a way that told the true story of what was going on, I wonder if citizens of the US and the US Government would have been in a better position to support that uprising and actively help in it. Several hundred thousand people died because we were not motivated to directly support them in their efforts, and meanwhile CNN is filing reports on Saddam's birthday party and spouting his propaganda.

And Ted Turner refers to Murdoch as a warmonger ...

[zerosix]

Every time CNN reports from a totalitarian run country, there should be a disclaimer scrolling across the bottom of the screen, "The report you just heard was entirely written by the despots running this country and should not be construed as the truth."

[Servant of the Nine]

Journalists in bed with Dictators

And Eason Jordan is gonna be the bitch.

So9

[friendly]

If you want to see the latest posting of Castro's propaganda ministy's press releases, look at the CNN website.

I guarantee you that all local staffing at the CNN Havana office are Secret Police agents.

Nothing wlll found on the CNN website about the 75 Cuban independent members of the press imprisoned for up to 30 years, for such crimes as owning a "counter-revolutionary book."

[gcruse]

"What mattered to CNN was not the two-minute report of rewritten Saddamite press releases but the sign off: 'Jane Arraf, CNN, Baghdad.' As Jordan acknowledged, this squalid trade-off cost real lives."

[Tacis]

Wait a minute! That's not right. Castro is not a dictator, he is a leader of the people. A fine man who freed his country. So, the very, very tight relationship that most of the old media types have with Fidelito and his regime doesn't fit in this model.

Hell, Fidelito provides cigars to many of the top media guys and asks absolutely nothing in return. It is what a friend would do. Fidelito's enlightened leadership is what causes the Dallas Morning News to run a front page story every other Sunday that praises Castro and his wonderful country.

No, the leftist media ignored the execution three days after trial of three Cuban criminals, not because the coddle Castro, but because the deceased guys said some really mean things. Oh, maybe an evil guy like Pinochet, but the relationship of the old media with leaders like Castro and, maybe, Mugabe

[Kay Soze]

Robert Scheer makes will into the six figures annually, has a yacht and has a much larger ecological footprint than any 10 families combined.

Just imagine what CNN, LA Times, Washington Post and NY Times currently know about Yassar Araft, Osama, Castro, North Korea, Assad, etc etc.

[Kay Soze]

"The question is, why report from places like Baghdad?"

CBS's Dan Rathers, CNN's Peter Arnett, CBS's Betsy Aaron, ABC's Bill Blakemore NBC's Tom Aspell- their motivation is the exact same as the Dictators.

News Orginizations do it for CASH AND PRIZES.

And at the expense of those in the prisons being totured mutilated, killed and dismembered.