Fun read.
Thanks for posting!
Tapper is not a stupid man (like Lemon is) but hi intense hatred of Trump has caused him to go insane and act the fool. What a pity.
Ending remark:
“Important note that everyone must remember. The Washington Post is the designated media outlet for the public position of the CIA. And CNN is the specifically funded media outlet for the positions of the U.S. State Department.”
But remember, T-Rex now runs the State Department
You give CNN way too much credit. This story acts like their bias began with Trump. Ever hear of Candy Crowley? Yes, they were great in the Gulf War, but they were named the Clinton News Network for a reason back in the nineties, and in 1988, they signed off their final post presidential broadcast of Inside Politics without ever mentioning that George Bush had beaten Dukakis. They were as bitter then as they are now.
CNN came on in the spring of 1980, advocating for Ted Kennedy against Jimmy Carter. They had some good journalists like Don Farmer and Chris Curl, but the network was never middle of the road.
>>CNN not only came to prominence during the Gulf War, they owned Gulf War news coverage.
The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the “Big Three” American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman and Peter Arnett.
CNN covered up human rights abuses, torture, and murder under Saddam Hussein to maintain their Baghdad Bureau.
Meanwhile they had no such fear about playing up Abu Ghraib as “Bush’s scandal”.
I remember when Fox News was first announced. Ted Turner bragged that he would “squash” Rupert Murdoch “like a bug”. That was in 1995.
actually CNN stop playing middle ground during GWB years and got worst during Obama years. It didn’t start because of Trump
“CNN’s international, 24/7, respected news coverage continued through the 1990’s, 9-11 and the Iraq War.”
The author is an idiot.
Eason Jordan, CNN CEO, admitted in a NY TIMES editorial that:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/the-news-we-kept-to-ourselves.html
The News We Kept To Ourselves
By EASON JORDAN APRIL 11, 2003
Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN’s Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, 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.
For example, in the mid-1990’s one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters because he refused to confirm the government’s ludicrous suspicion that I was the Central Intelligence Agency’s Iraq station chief. CNN had been in Baghdad long enough to know that telling the world about the torture of one of its employees would almost certainly have gotten him killed and put his family and co-workers at grave risk.
Working for a foreign news organization provided Iraqi citizens no protection. The secret police terrorized Iraqis working for international press services who were courageous enough to try to provide accurate reporting. Some vanished, never to be heard from again. Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways. Obviously, other news organizations were in the same bind we were when it came to reporting on their own workers.
We also had to worry that our reporting might endanger Iraqis not on our payroll. I knew that CNN could not report that Saddam Hussein’s eldest son, Uday, told me in 1995 that he intended to assassinate two of his brothers-in-law who had defected and also the man giving them asylum, King Hussein of Jordan. If we had gone with the story, I was sure he would have responded by killing the Iraqi translator who was the only other participant in the meeting. After all, secret police thugs brutalized even senior officials of the Information Ministry, just to keep them in line (one such official has long been missing all his fingernails).
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Still, I felt I had a moral obligation to warn Jordan’s monarch, and I did so the next day. King Hussein dismissed the threat as a madman’s rant. A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed.
I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed. One Foreign Ministry officer told me of a colleague who, finding out his brother had been executed by the regime, was forced, as a test of loyalty, to write a letter of congratulations on the act to Saddam Hussein. An aide to Uday once told me why he had no front teeth: henchmen had ripped them out with pliers and told him never to wear dentures, so he would always remember the price to be paid for upsetting his boss. Again, we could not broadcast anything these men said to us.
Last December, when I told Information Minister Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf that we intended to send reporters to Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, he warned me they would ‘’suffer the severest possible consequences.’’ CNN went ahead, and in March, Kurdish officials presented us with evidence that they had thwarted an armed attack on our quarters in Erbil. This included videotaped confessions of two men identifying themselves as Iraqi intelligence agents who said their bosses in Baghdad told them the hotel actually housed C.I.A. and Israeli agents. The Kurds offered to let us interview the suspects on camera, but we refused, for fear of endangering our staff in Baghdad.
Then there were the events that were not unreported but that nonetheless still haunt me. A 31-year-old Kuwaiti woman, Asrar Qabandi, was captured by Iraqi secret police occupying her country in 1990 for ‘’crimes,’’ one of which included speaking with CNN on the phone. They beat her daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the doorstep of her family’s home.
I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely.
I was unemployed at the time and was glued to the TV watching CNN’s coverage of the first Gulf War. Boy have the gone down hill since then.
I am shocked that CNN's quality has slipped.
Fox was never conservative. They were just less obviously biased. CNN has been the Clinton News Network since 1992.
Fox has been number 1 in ratings since 2002.
#CNN-TabloidTV
Starmann shouldn't hold back - he should tell us how he really feels... Oh, and that 'Russia thing'? It's all falling apart - no there there...
Starmann shouldn't hold back - he should tell us how he really feels... Oh, and that 'Russia thing'? It's all falling apart - no there there...
Ping to article and comments # 11 , # 12 , # 13 , # 14 . - See graphics as well.
Thanks, Marvin Stinson.
CNN is totally invested in the progressive mass movement to bring down Trump and the totality of his government. They will replace it with an autocratic one party progressive government where voting is irrelevant to the power of the Democrats and compliant Republicans of whom there are many.
If CNN fails, they will collapse.
CNN is totally invested in the progressive mass movement to bring down Trump and the totality of his government. They will replace it with an autocratic one party progressive government where voting is irrelevant to the power of the Democrats and compliant Republicans of whom there are many.
If CNN fails, they will collapse.
Disney, Comcast, and Time Warner have been defecating on the good citizens for far too long.
