CNN Denies Mistranslating Rowhani Interview; Iranian state-run media said Rowhani

Free Beacon ^ | 9/25/13 | : Alana Goodman

[Nachum]

CNN said it did not mistranslate Iranian President Hassan Rowhani’s comments about the Holocaust to make him sound more moderate during a Tuesday interview with Christiane Amanpour, contradicting a report that ran in Iran’s state-run news agency.

According to the government-run Fars News service, CNN mistranslated Rowhani’s statements and downplayed his suggestion that the Holocaust was not an historical fact.

CNN told the Washington Free Beacon that the translator who worked on the interview was actually hired by the Iranian government.

According to the Fars News translation of Rowhani’s CNN interview, the Iranian president did not use the term “Holocaust,” instead referring to it as “historical events.” He also did not use the term “reprehensible,” according to Fars News.

[Nachum]

CNN Denies Mistranslating Rowhani Interview Iranian state-run media said Rowhani did not refer to 'Holocaust' in interview

[Rennes Templar]

The Conniving News Network.

[thorvaldr]

CNN vs Iranian state TV who do you believe? Is there some way to not believe either of them?

[spawn44]

CNN manipulating a news story. Now I have heard everything.

[familyop]

Iran’s Rouhani calls Holocaust crime against Jews (but condems Israel “occupation” in same breath)
Reuters ^ | Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:02pm EDT | Matt Spetalnick and Yeganeh Torbati
"Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday called the Holocaust a “reprehensible” crime committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people, but said it was up to historians to determine the scale of what happened..."


Iran's 'Moderate' New President on Whether Holocaust a Myth: 'I'm Not a Historian'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3069133/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Towel Boy just barely acknowledged that the Holocaust took place. Thanks Nachum.

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• L'Shanah Tovah from Iran's Holocaust Deniers (Rouhani)
• Israel PM accuses Iran president of hypocrisy
• Iranian Jews in U.S. Reject Invitation to Meet Rouhani
• Rouhani chides Israel for not signing nuke treaty
• Rouhani Says Israel Must Declare Nuclear Bomb
• Iran parades 30 2,000-km range missiles
• Iran says it has about 18,000 nuclear centrifuges

[GOPJ]

CNN was trying to make Iran MORE acceptable to the American public... Kind of like how they cover for Obama... hand in glove. The Iranians were too out of touch to realize what was happening... Thank God.

[Trailerpark Badass]

They ignored Saddam Hussein's atrocities so they wouldn't lose "access."

Of course, a naif might assume that the whole point of "journalists" having access is to inform the world of murderous tyrants, but I guess they have their own agenda.

[GOPJ]

...but I guess they have their own agenda.

Badass, seems you've found a key to understanding the MSM - the missing puzzle piece of perverse incentives... If the purpose of access isn't to increase their ability to gather news for their viewers, what's it for? This is a real question... I have no idea on this one - but it feels important. Any ideas?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Journalists now think of themselves as shapers of opinion who provide "interpretation and analysis" instead of accurate facts.

This idea seemed to be pushed by the commies at the Columbia U School of Journalism and obviously plays on the self-image of the type of people who want to be journalists, the ones I knew being invariably sanctimonious.