CNN Explains Honduras Reporting (More Fake News)

MediaBistro ^ | July 10, 2009

[rightwingintelligentsia]

CNN is responding to a claim that correspondent Karl Penhaul, who is covering the situation on Honduras, interviewed a man who'd already been accused of staging what was happening at a protest for "dramatic effect."

On Wednesday, the blog Legal Insurrection wrote:

Reuters ran a staged photo of a bloodied Honduran protester. Contrary to the clear implication of the Reuters story, the protester was not bloodied from the protests, but as reported by Hunter Smith at Honduras Abandoned, the protester deliberately wiped blood on his shirt from the ground in order to get photographed. Now this same protester, identified as Juan Angel Atunez, has appeared in a CNN news report by Karl Penhaul in a bloodied shirt claiming that a child died in his arms.

It is unclear if a child died at the protests, as most reports state only one adult died. Regardless, Hunter's first hand observation of Atunez wiping blood on himself prior to being photographed and videotaped shows that Atunez staged his appearance and story for dramatic effect, which both Reuters and CNN buying into it.

[Happy Rain]

MSM spin paving the way to make acceptable public derision of our own soon coming (perhaps violent,yet Constitutionally sanctioned by the 2nd Amendment)rebellion against socialist tyranny.

They see it looming and wish to nip it in the bud.

[Vaduz]

CNN reporterette in boat story of La. flood.

[don-o]

MSM lies..who knew?

FReepmail me to be added/removed from Honduras ping list

[RegulatorCountry]

What do you mean?

The mass media spin in this instance is as it always is, in favor of the socialists.

Looks like these Honduran pro-Zelaya protestors have been trained in agitprop by the same propaganda artists that have been at work in Lebanon and Israel for decades.

[cleveland gop]

CNN and Reuters misreporting the truth?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[Grizzled Bear]

Faux-tography!

Part Deux!

[Girlene]

Hunter Smith noted in his blog, Honduras Abandoned, how he had seen the man put his hands in blood on the ground and wipe it on his shirt. Here's the story Juan Angel Antunes Antunes told this fellow from Rights Action group. I wonder how Juan would fair in a lie detector test.

[TXnMA]

Looks like these Honduran pro-Zelaya protestors have been trained in agitprop by the same propaganda artists that have been at work in Lebanon and Israel and in our own MSM for decades.

[TigersEye]

More fake news from the SRM.

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