In an astounding confession on Friday, CNN’s top news executive admitted that the cable news network has been doing propaganda for Saddam Hussein for the past 12 years.
Eason Jordan, chief news executive of the cable network, wrote on the New York Times op-ed page on Friday that CNN for years has withheld important news about the Iraqi regime, ostensibly because reporting the truth would jeopardize CNN’s Iraqi employees. It might also have gotten CNN kicked out of the country, too, and that apparently was a price CNN was not willing to pay. They chose to shill for Saddam rather than be shown the border.
Over the years, Jordan wrote, “I became more distressed by what I saw and heard – awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.”
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