Posted on 02/15/2017 12:01:43 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I appreciate the post but anyone who doesn’t realize that the MSM is a propaganda arm of the US government is delusional. This is old news.
“United States government had been supplying over $1 billion worth in weaponry- including tear gas- to the oppressive Bahraini regime looking to suppress popular protests in the country”
Popular by whose account? That word popular has a different meaning in the Middle East than the West. Egypt, Libya,Syria, Iran were all popular protests to substitute one form of tyranny for a worse one.Having said that CNN, fake news central, still sucks and I have no doubt they would have covered up because it was the Obama administration and not Bush or Trump asking them to do so.
“This has all the hallmarks of a fake news story — no links to actual sources, an unknown “news” site, no credible corroboration, has been bouncing around the web with this bad sourcing, etc. — and IMO should be taken down from FR. “
I agree completely. Could be fake but accurate, but fake nonetheless.
I can only imagine the kinds of quid pro quo deals CNN has to make in order to keep their broadcast licenses in many of the dictatorships and kingdoms around the world. If they don’t give freedoms to their local press why should we think CNN is any more open or democratic? It would come out in the form of self-censorship.
It is not a giant leap from that into the realm of pay for play reporting, or pay for not reporting. IMO they cannot be trusted not for just what they report but for what they choose not to report. And this extends to other big media companies too - look at the hoops Google and Facebook are jumping through just for China (with China still denying FB entree).
While it wouldn't surprise me that things like this have happened, there is just nothing of substance backing this up. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a planted story by the left knowing that people would pass it on without doing any critical thinking because it fit in with some anti liberal talking points. The purpose of the story well may be to discredit conservatives who blindly site stories like this as "proof" of media bias.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain_Bloody_Thursday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGogvRK-bCU
Feb 17 2011. I vaguely remember this being on the news. Happened west of the Souk in Bahrain, almost to the Seef Mall. We used to like to say Souk and Seef in our finest Arabic accents, always starting or finishing a sentence with a “my friend.” Anyone remember the daily beer chits in the 90’s in Bahrain, redeemable at the ASU, which we called the Alcohol Support Unit.
See this article:
Why didn't CNN’s international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression?
And here is CNN’s own response to that article:
CNN International’s Response to the Guardian – Update
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/05/cnn-internationals-response-to-the-guardian/
(note: does not actually say that what she said is untrue. It does only respond to the Guardian article)
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I loath CNN. We all know they lie. It is interesting that other MSM would criticize them for it. And it is very unusual. Yes, CNN = fake news
BUT I'm not yet convince the article you posted is totally accurate.
Obama used our tax money.
” I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a planted story by the left knowing that people would pass it on without doing any critical thinking because it fit in with some anti liberal talking points. The purpose of the story well may be to discredit conservatives who blindly site stories like this as “proof” of media bias.”
The bias of the left is obvious, no “fake” stories need be planted to “prove bias”. Besides a favorite trick of the left is to plant some bogus story that is seen (and believed) by millions but only a few thousand will pay attention to the retraction/correction. I doubt they would use their own trick against themselves by planting a fake a story of bias.
Outside of the captive audience at airports does anyone watch CNN?
“In the 90’s CNN had broadcast team vans which sported license plates which were US government tags.”
Thanks for sharing that. More positive proof of CNN’s affiliation with an agency that specializes in propaganda used to manipulate organizations, topple governments, and rig elections, all at the directive of those ‘oh so special’ Uniparty club members seeking to institute their “New World Order”. It’s hard to beat the undercover persona of posing as a reporter to gain access to almost every situation or event in real-time. To be as accurate and real as possible, there’s good reason that in his novels, Tom Clancy would write about how the Agency decision makers would go directly to the CNN feed for live intelligence. There was a court case recently about the legalities of the FBI doing the same thing. Any more, it doesn’t matter if the “reporters” are operating on U.S. soil or not, just cry out “911” and our nation’s borders disappear.
Ah, I missed that part. My reading comprehension skills are still better than a liberal judges’.
Loosen up your kneepads ...
#4thEstate5thColumn
WHAT?
She’s a “CNN reporter” who was “formerly employed by CNN” ?
She was “on the air” but “didn’t know her mic was on” and she’s being interviewed by...somebody....last October...either before or after she became a “former” employee...
I’m lost.
This article is terribly written.
What’s your problem—do you like fake “conservative” news?
When the “press” can operate as an enemy of the President and the right wing without consequence, there is no disincentive to them trying to destroy them.
The press in Russia behaves because once in a while one of them gets shot or disappears.
The US is made weaker and less safe by allowing these degenerate animals to operate against the national interest.
It is not “Patriotic” to allow them to continue unmolested, it is cowardly and wrong.
CNN was apoplectic over the news conference today, peddling some fake BS about the Russians talking to all of Trumps people during the campaign.
FAKE STORY, FAKE NEWS
These enemy propagandists would do well too remember how Goebbels and his family ended up.
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