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Sorry, but I don’t buy this paranoid crap some people have about CNN. They are reporting the war better this year because the war is going much better, they reported the war negatively last year because it was going quite badly by anyones measure.

Thank you for explaining that to us.

If you had not pointed out that CNN reports only the truth, some of us might have remained under the impression that CNN reports what CNN believes is best for the CNN agenda.

CNN's Iraqi Cover-Up ...... CNN admits that knowledge of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau........... In a shocking New York Times opinion piece, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has admitted that for the past decade the network has systematically covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities. Reports of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau. ......... Some of the most damning evidence against CNN comes from a Washington Times op-ed by Peter Collins ("Corruption at CNN - April 15, 2003......Collins briefly worked for the network in Baghdad and sat in on talks involving executives Eason Jordan and Tom Johnson, who were trying to negotiate an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein: ..... "The day after one such meeting, I was on the roof of the Ministry of Information, preparing for my first 'live shot' on CNN. A producer came up and handed me a sheet of paper with handwritten notes. 'Tom Johnson wants you to read this on camera,' he said. I glanced at the paper. It was an item-by-item summary of points made by Information Minister Latif Jassim in an interview that morning with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jordan. ..... "The list was so long that there was no time during the live shot to provide context. I read the information minister's points verbatim. Moments later, I was downstairs in the newsroom on the first floor of the Information Ministry. Mr. Johnson approached, having seen my performance on a TV monitor. 'You were a bit flat there, Peter,' he said. Again, I was astonished. The president of CNN was telling me I seemed less-than-enthusiastic reading Saddam Hussein's propaganda."

I never said CNN reports the ‘truth’. The truth when it comes to Iraq is quote subjective.

I seem to recall CNN reporting the administations claims on Iraq fairly uncritically in the run up to war and I am not just talking about when it comes to WMDs.