A sudden shift in coverage tonight? I guess CNN's polling results came in today.
It is one thing to keep secrets to protect lives. It is quite another to manipulate what stories are presented and how they are presented in order to delay and undercut attempts at liberating Iraq.
Perhaps this reporter is genuine. That just means that someone else at CNN decided to step into the shoes of Walter Duranty, to look the other way for the good of "The Movement".
I saw one reporter say flat out that he had to give THEIR side from Baghdad.
They should put that on the screen under their names!
And now we know where all those breakdancin' parachute pants went to...
I sent this letter to Mr. Jordan at
cnn@cnn.com: To: Mr. Eason Jordan, CNN Chief News Executive
Dear Mr. Jordan,
I read your op-ed piece in today's New York Times with growing indignation. Do you not see that you have been used by Saddam to extend his power? Do you make no distinction between your job as a news gather/reporter and your function as a tool of an evil, murderous regime? Do you not accept responsibility for the suffering and deaths of Iraqis and coalition military personnel due to your silence and cowardice?
How much more courageous it would have been for you to have spoken the truth even if it meant necessarily pulling out of your high-profile news beat years ago.
What else do you know that you are not making public? Information preceding the 9/11/01 terror attacks, perhaps?
And to think that while you hid your knowledge of these atrocities and the manipulation tactics being used to control your reports from your news audiences, you failed to support world community interdiction, and in fact delayed it.
How can you ask me to accept any of your station's reports as credible?