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

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

[dmeara]

This is morally equivalent to Scott Ritter not giving the horrid details of his tour of a children's prison in Iraq, because he thought it would start war and he was "waging peace".

This is despicable beyond words. It should be reported on every network.

[Slip18]

I'm sitting here laughing.

I honestly liked listening to Baghdad Bob. He was hysterical.

[diamond6]

And you call me a disruptor. Let me see if I can explain this to you in language you can understand. CNN hired Iraqis in Iraq for the Iraqi bureau. The Iraqis were the ones Jordan was protecting. He couldn't just take those Iraqis into the U.S. without the Iraqi and U.S. government's approval. Knowing Saddam, if CNN had just picked up and left, Saddam would have punished the employees whether they had anything to do with it or not.

[Howlin]

When you get a chance, read this article:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/889555.asp

Imagine our troops having to save this jerk OVER and OVER.......

[diamond6]

Thank you.

[Howlin]

The Iraqis were the ones Jordan was protecting.

Quit while you're ahead.

He never said that the Iraqis told him that the man was going to be killed.

He said UDAY told him.

Now, do you think he should have protected Uday as a "source?"

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Knowing what they did, CNN gave a forum to McDermott,Bonier ,Rather,Sarandon,Sean Penn,etc, so they could promote their pro Saddam agenda. Larry King Live was a nightly wet kiss to Iraq.If I had a journalism degree, I would burn it in shame and never speak of it again. Others may disagree,but,I cannot imagine Fox News looking the other way,year after year,while people were murdered and tortured.I also don't follow the Coward News Network's logic-they needed to keep quiet,so they could stay in Iraq and not report the story.Guess their motto is " Unfair and Unbalanced, We Don't Report, We Decide."

[kayak]

Apologies for duplicate pings ..... trying to get the word out to as many as possible.

[marajade]

"If you read the article you would know that most of their employees were Iraqi citizens."

They should have never gotten themselves in the situation they were in in the first place...

[chinche]

It's always the same deal - report what we *tell* you to report or you won't continue to be our "guests".

You assume it is always the same deal. Let’s say you are correct. CNN had the option of not being a “guest.” Why did CNN choose to be a good houseguest in Iraq given such a deal? Why did they accept the deal?

Some possibilities:

They thought it a good commercial strategy and let profits define their moral center.

They were secretly working for the forces of good.

They didn’t give a damn.

They swore an oath (to what god?) of allegiance to ironic objectivity. (That is they invented some sophist reason not to give a damn.)

They were coerced to be there and behave.

Their inner self demanded that they be reporters and so they heroically accepted the deep, intimate pain of keeping the horrific news to themselves in order to attain their true calling.

They were just following orders.

[Dec31,1999]

I've got CNN on because FNC is playing the same thing over and over. I must say that I'm really appauled by what passes for jounalism these days. No wonder the sheeple are against freedom. It's terrible!

[Lucas1]

Ping

[The Great Satan]

Unbelievable. Despicable beyond belief.

[marajade]

At least FNC can say their journalistic integrity is still intact... CNN after this, cannot...

[KingKongCobra]

I haven't posted in about a year but this is the sickest thing I think I have ever read. There are no words. CNN helped Sadam (helped, I say) to murder tens of thousands of his people just so that they could make a couple bucks by having an office in Bagdad. It's ..... I need a larger vocabulary because I can't find the words.

This should become a required course study in every journalism school in the world. The perfect example of what is NOT ethical.

[fellowpatriot]

Thanks for pinging me to this story, Howlin!

What more does anyone expect from the clinton news network? Does anyone really doubt whether or not the former administration knew about this?

I think that cnn decided to supress this story because they knew that clinton wouldn't do diddly squat about it.

cnn was an enabler to the clinton administration - this story is just another part of his legacy.

[Lucas1]

It would be nice to see this at the top of the front-page news section tomorrow morning.

[Howlin]

I also don't follow the Coward News Network's logic-they needed to keep quiet,so they could stay in Iraq and not report the story.

That's about the crux of it.

[Howlin]

I see you don't have an answer. You just proved my point. Thanks.