The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]

The New York Times ^ | 04/11/03 | EASON JORDAN

[dogbyte12]

Ping everybody on your lists please.

[Freedom2specul8]

Is it possible, that there is evidence being found by the troops about the reporters, and the reporters are afraid of it leaking? Or is that too tinfoilish?

[Howlin]

I already did.

Ping lists, please.

[Howlin]

Kim, I'll bite on anything after this. Honest.

[AndyJackson]

You left off my favorite poster child of CNN - Puala Zahn. Her flipped out hair-do looks like she is trying to be a combover but has too much hair. That and Judy Woodruff who looks like Bill the Cat.

[Beth]

I can't find the words to decribe CNN. I thought they couldn't get any lower, now I read this.

They've proven themselves unworthy of the First Amendment.

[JohnHuang2]

Thank you for the ping, Howlin.

Didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of CNN just diminished further. CNN is beneath contempt.

[Illbay]

"Now that I have that off my chest, let's go to our intrepid on-the-scene reporter, with a half-hour tribute to those valiant men and women who are protesting the unjust war that they allege is merely about 'blood for oil'.

"And in the interest of 'fairness' we won't challenge a single one of them with the notion that they might be aiding and abetting a brutal dictatorship!"

[razorbak]

Notice that CNN dumps this story into a news cycle that is so dominated by other events that it will get little play. Also, you know good and well, if CNN people knew this, their cocktail buddies at the other networks did also. But they attack Ari Fleischer as if he were Dr. Goebbels.

[Howlin]

Hit your ping list, will you?

[jocon307]

"...how many major news organizations didn't have people inside Iraq? Even Fox did. What if they're all compromised this way?..."

Galahad (of the excellent name) you are correct, Sir. I'm ready to believe CNN might be worse than the rest, but I'm also ready to believe its sins may only be among those of many others. And I think this author should be acknowledged for speaking the truth, even at this too late date.

All this, all this horror that will now be revealed will show to all who can think for themselves that Bush, and Blair, were not b-s-ing anyone.

We live in a fallen world, so far fallen from perfection and even, often, good, that to have forthright men like Bush and Blair in the lead is as good as we are going to do sometimes.

Most of the folks in the West won't soon slip back into the haze of celebrity worship we were lately in. Sure, sure, people will go on with their own personal lives, but that is all the more reason why LEADERSHIP is important.

And Freerepublic is a big part of what is going to change this world. This is the information age, that is really the great change. As great as the Industrial Revolution, as great as the Renaissance. No one knows where it is going to take all of us; but is it going to take all of us somewhere we've never been before. And in the Information Age, it'll be to the good to get Truth out there, in front.

[goodnesswins]

bump for later

[Mo1]

This needs to be read and emailed to everybody we know by every single person on this forum.

I am emailing now .. I cannot believe this .. They have the blood of the Iraqi People on thier hands

I wonder what other stories they are not reporting on

[NYCVirago]

Also, you know good and well, if CNN people knew this, their cocktail buddies at the other networks did also.

Absolutely. But why would they want to give aid and comfort to the enemy, namely, Bush? It might get them disinvited from their limousine liberal soirees.

[Pokey78]

The thing about it is that the author still works for CNN, and I'll bet that they have no idea the outrage this will cause across the country. They will be blindsided.

[stands2reason]

Bump to your comments. And welcome to FR!

[Freedom2specul8]

Well, if they were CONFIDED in by saddam's sons, about murder..one would think they were held in higher standards or something. Meaning they reporters must have done a lot to kiss up to them?

[diamond6]

Excuse me for offering a dissenting view, but just what would you have done that would have saved the employees from being tortured or killed?

[Illbay]

In fairness, even if they had closed their Baghdad bureau, all the Iraqi employees there--probably most of the staff--would have been left behind, and would have been tortured or killed if CNN followed through.

No, the other people here have it right: What is nauseating is that CNN has aided and abetted the DOMESTIC enemies of the Bush administration. They haven't done diddly-**** to challenge the allegations of the "anti-war" (anti-American) activists.

That's just unconscionable.

[Freedom2specul8]

" unjust war"

I need to go reread the article!