This was going on in late 2005 when I was a security manager for a company in Iraq. we rented a villa in a large very secure compound near the green zone. CNN had there digs across the lane from us. They had a rooftop setup with an enclosed and sandbagged pillbox with an opening which the the Baghdad railroad station and the huge Al-Bunia mosque in the distance about a mile away.. They staged broadcasts with the ‘reporter’ in a kevlar vest and helmet and zoomed on him which brought the background of the Mosque and railroad station appear like on the street... All bull..
Actually there is a video on youtube dating back to 1990, during the first Gulf War, where CNN faked a broadcast.
CNN lied to the world pretending they had LIVE reporters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that were under a SCUD attack.
The reality is they were on top of the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Lkp8Lesoo
Haha!