[browardchad]

CNN admits that their reports are censored inside China, but they didn't say that they censor their Chinese news for our consumption.

And they didn't say they didn't censor their Chinese news for our consumption. They are simply covering their butts.

If they were reporting the truth, they would no longer have an office in China.

What this tactic boils down to is this: "Look, we really, really want to tell the truth, but the Chinese won't let us. We have to stay here, and make money by pandering to the regime and submitting to censorship, but it's not hypocritical, because we are an impartial news organization who can't be impartial under these circumstances, but we really would report the truth if we could, but we can't. Honest."

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Excellent points.

A freeper has the tagline that goes something like this...

CNN: Blood for a news bureau

or something very similar in sentiment. Wish I could remember who it is. If I see it again, I'll alert you. It really cuts to the chase in the whole argument.

[heleny]

And they didn't say they didn't censor their Chinese news for our consumption. They are simply covering their butts.

If they were reporting the truth, they would no longer have an office in China.

Sadly, I agree. What I meant was that CNN admitted nothing about the content of their China reports, unlike someone's admission about CNN's past Iraq reports.