CNN has been paid by corrupt countries to make those countries look good with propaganda posing as news.
CNN and the business of state-sponsored TV news
Glenn Greenwald, 4 Sept 2012
The network is seriously compromising its journalism in the Gulf states by blurring the line between advertising and editorial
• Report: why didn’t CNNi air its own ‘iRevolution’ documentary?
Tuesday 4 September 2012 15.02 EDT First published on Tuesday 4 September 2012
Today I reported on the refusal of CNN International (CNNi) to broadcast an award-winning documentary, “iRevolution”, that was produced in early 2011 as the Arab Spring engulfed the region and which was highly critical of the regime in Bahrain. The documentary, featuring CNN’s on-air correspondent Amber Lyon, viscerally documented the brutality and violence the regime was using against its own citizens who were peacefully protesting for democracy. Commenting on why the documentary did not air on CNNi, CNN’s spokesman cited “purely editorial reasons”.
Even so, the network’s relationships with governments must bear closer examination. CNNi has aggressively pursued a business strategy of extensive, multifaceted financial arrangements between the network and several of the most repressive regimes around the world which the network purports to cover. Its financial dealings with Bahrain are deep and longstanding.
CNNi’s pursuit of sponsorship revenue from the world’s regimes:
CNNi’s pursuit of and reliance on revenue from Middle East regimes increased significantly after the 2008 financial crisis, which caused the network to suffer significant losses in corporate sponsorships. It thus pursued all-new, journalistically dubious ways to earn revenue from governments around the world. Bahrain has been one of the most aggressive government exploiters of the opportunities presented by CNNi.
These arrangements extend far beyond standard sponsorship agreements for advertising of the type most major media outlets feature. CNNi produces those programs in an arrangement it describes as “in association with” the government of a country, and offers regimes the ability to pay for specific programs about their country. These programs are then featured as part of CNNi’s so-called “Eye on” series (”Eye on Georgia”, “Eye on the Phillipines”, “Eye on Poland”), or “Marketplace Middle East”, all of which is designed to tout the positive economic, social and political features of that country.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-business-state-sponsored-news
CNN Journalist ‘Governments Pay Us To Fake Stories’, Shocking Exposé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYyngKSpRUs
What a coincidence. CNN is a second-rate news service too.
I know EuroNews is one of fifty-odd channel options, but to be honest...other than passing through the channel...I doubt if I’ve watched more than five minutes over the past five years.
For Germans, if they need the rolling news situation...they’d go to N-TV or N-24. I don’t know who would be watching EuroNews or even care. It does seem to be one of the few networks from Europe that you can get in Turkey, if you go on a trip there.