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CNN chief stands by Iraq omissions
Washington Times ^
| Saturday, April 12, 2003
| By Jennifer Harper
Posted on 04/12/2003 12:21:51 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan yesterday disclosed that his network withheld details of Saddam Hussein's brutality from its coverage to protect CNN employees.
Alarming facts about secret police, abductions, beatings, dismemberment and assassinations under the Iraqi dictator were not reported to the public, Mr. Jordan wrote, "because doing so would have jeopardized Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: easonjordan
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04/12/2003 12:24:14 AM PDT
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To: JohnHuang2
"All the news that's fit to print."
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:29:23 AM PDT
by
ambrose
To: JohnHuang2
"If accurate reporting from Iraq was impossible, why was access to this dictatorship so important in the first place? And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states like North Korea, Cuba and Syria are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?" Mr. Noyes said. Do tell Mr. Jordan.
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:31:12 AM PDT
by
Kudsman
(LETS GET IT ON!!! The price of freedom is vigilance. Tyranny is free of charge.)
To: JohnHuang2
Wonder what else they are hiding.. ?
I bet this will do lousy things for their ratings. Whenever you see a smilin' reporter on CNN you have to wonder if someone's being tortured just off camera.
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:32:54 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
(It's called "adoption" Perhaps you've heard of it?)
To: Jhoffa_
I bet CNN has the same 'see-no-evil, hear-no-evil' "policy" with Castro's Cuba.
To: JohnHuang2
CNN...The Most Trusted Name in News. </sarcasm>
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:40:55 AM PDT
by
CaptSkip
(Mornin' kattracks!)
To: JohnHuang2
I wonder if CNN was airing pro-Saddam puff pieces around the same time the brutality was taking place...
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:43:18 AM PDT
by
ambrose
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:47:17 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
To: JohnHuang2
I bet CNN has the same 'see-no-evil, hear-no-evil' "policy" with Castro's Cuba.
It's certainly possible.. Hell, who knows after these glaring lapses?
One thing's for certain though, people can't trust CNN to be "fair and balanced" I don't think that message will be lost on cable news junkies and politically savvy types.
Fox 1, CNN 0
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:49:07 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
(It's called "adoption" Perhaps you've heard of it?)
To: Jhoffa_
This is the Arab point of view and Christiane Amanpour is airing it. I don't know what she knew about what was going on in Iraq, but my guess is she knew much more than what her network was reporting. If I'm wrong, why wouldn't Eason Jordan take aside CNN's lead infobabe on the ground and tell her what's going on there?
Instead he leaves her out to dry, and here she is taking the Arab side of all of this on CNN, under the guise of objective news, defending the regime of Saddam Hussein
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891326/posts?page= Rush Limbaugh
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:53:46 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(The gift is to see the truth.....)
To: JohnHuang2
CNN's Credibility
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:54:21 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
(Congrats Syracuse Orangeman!)
To: TLBSHOW
This is the Arab point of view and Christiane Amanpour is airing it. The War Slut was too busy posing for one of Uday's semi-nude paintings on black velvet.
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:56:22 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
(Congrats Syracuse Orangeman!)
To: JohnHuang2
VO (James Earl Jones): They decide...We report. This is CNN.
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posted on
04/12/2003 12:57:35 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
("...and coming up next: Reliable Sources.")
To: JohnHuang2
They could have just had Uday fax the stories in.
Maybe it looks more like real news if you can have a reporter read it from Bagdad.
To: JohnHuang2
To him, it was critical to have a CNN presence in Iraq, no matter what. As a result, many things that CNN knew about went unreported.
It would have been better to have no journalists in Iraq, since they couldnt tell us what was really happening, anyway. Viewers would have known there might be awful things going on in Baghdad. But suspecting and not seeing would have been better than seeing reporters, and not being told by them about the awful things happening beyond the cameras.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richtucker/rt20030412.shtml
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04/12/2003 1:11:23 AM PDT
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TLBSHOW
(The gift is to see the truth.....)
To: backhoe; Jhoffa_; JohnHuang2
Castro (not CNN) sends unequivocal message with execution of hijackers, crackdownAnd our children are being indoctrinated right here under our noses.
Professors take on role as high priests of activism***Journalism professor Robert Jensen, who has taught at UT since 1992, became politically active after the United States bombed Iraq in 1998. "It was clear the UT campus was not a hotbed of political activity at that point," he said. "That's partly what was motivating me." Jensen organized and built a network of student and community activists. But his work took an unexpected turn after Sept. 11. Three days later, Jensen published a letter in the Chronicle saying the terrorist acts were "no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism" committed by the United States. ***
To: JohnHuang2
When will CNN reveal to us why they are the only US news network to whom Castro granted a Cuban bureau? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?
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posted on
04/12/2003 1:45:27 AM PDT
by
JoeGar
To: JohnHuang2
And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states like North Korea, Cuba and Syria are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?" All of CNN's Havana Bureau chief Lucia Newman's reports on Cuba are nothing but feel-good happy talk.
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posted on
04/12/2003 1:55:54 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(A Person With No Sense Of Humor Is Someone Who Confuses The Irreverent With The Irrelevant)
To: TLBSHOW
Am I the only one to notice that when Christiane Amanpour speaks --- her lips seem to form a natural Lewinsky curl.....
How can anyone believe the War Whore.....
Semper Fi
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posted on
04/12/2003 2:13:35 AM PDT
by
river rat
(War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
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