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The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]
The New York Times ^
| 04/11/03
| EASON JORDAN
Posted on 04/10/2003 9:16:06 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Toskrin
Mr. Jordan met with these butchers more than a dozen times, even after knowing what they had done to that poor Kuwaiti woman and her family. I'm surprised CNN would let this be published. This is essentially a confession that they have zero journalistic integrity.
341
posted on
04/10/2003 11:52:44 PM PDT
by
EaglesUpForever
(Scott Ritter's breath smells like crow)
To: diamond6
Um...it isn't CNN's job to "protect the citizens of Iraq",
(that used to be Saddam's job, and he failed miserably.)
CNN, as a news network, ALSO failed them miserably.
342
posted on
04/10/2003 11:53:46 PM PDT
by
MamaLucci
(CNN ALLOWED SADDAM TO CENSOR THEM FOR YEARS!!!!!)
To: MamaLucci
This should be in breaking news...
343
posted on
04/10/2003 11:55:15 PM PDT
by
Lucas1
To: Howlin
OK, you're absolutely right. He was trying to protect Uday. What a brilliant observation! I'm proud of you!
344
posted on
04/10/2003 11:55:21 PM PDT
by
diamond6
("Everyone who is for abortion HAS been born." Ronald Reagan)
To: diamond6
He was protecting his own butt...
To: diamond6
Wherever YOU went to school dear, you need to sue them ! Reading comprehension is not exactly your forte.
Who is/was Uday ?
Uday is/was Saddam's son; a son who for all purposes, WAS " Iraq ". So, all you've managed to do is pick nits, where no nits exist. :-)
To: diamond6
Uday was his source; you said he was trying to protect his sources in Iraq. I can connect dots.
347
posted on
04/10/2003 11:58:29 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(It's a great day to be an American -- or an Iraqi!)
To: nopardons
I'm well aware dear of who Uday is. I think you would get an F in reading comprehension.
348
posted on
04/10/2003 11:58:54 PM PDT
by
diamond6
("Everyone who is for abortion HAS been born." Ronald Reagan)
To: EaglesUpForever
Well, what did you expect from CNN ? Morals ? Ethics ? Journalistic terpitude ? LOL
To: diamond6
Ok diamond, I've had all I can stand. Here's the detail of your argument. Think about it.
Sadam kills an estimated 5000 of his citizens per month. CNN knows this and even has anecdotal evidence among their own staff. So they keep quiet about the killings in the hope that this may make their 10 staff members safer.
Hmmm, 5000 a month dead for 13 years and you find this an acceptable trade off. Think about it. The truth is out there (but not on CNN).
To: marajade
Hey remember when CNN celebrated that Iraqis had voted for Saddam with a 100% vote return and that many had voted in blood... Some likely from the blood of their decaying corpses.
I guess that's where Democrats get this from...
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posted on
04/10/2003 11:59:48 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Where liberals lead, misery follows.)
To: diamond6
Oh please, compared to you, my reading comprehension ability is beyond genius. LOL
To: Luis Gonzalez
You are suffering for his sin more than he is Exactly, this media whore thought it more important to keep up appearances with the "prestige" of a Baghdad bureau, than actually report the truth of the brutality.
353
posted on
04/11/2003 12:00:49 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: marajade
" You know as much as I detest Clinton... "
Today's New York Post, Page Six-Clinton was booed big time at the Beacon Theater in NYC,when he took the stage at a Willie Nelson concert.His aide said that Clinton wasn't booed,the noise was actually applause.These people all live in Bizarro World.
To: KingKongCobra
I'm glad you piped up tonight! Keep it coming.
355
posted on
04/11/2003 12:01:22 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(It's a great day to be an American -- or an Iraqi!)
To: Toskrin
The writer clearly doesn't have a clear understanding of the realities on the ground because CNN has demonstrated again and again that it has a spine; that it's prepared to be forthright; is forthright in its reporting. He has just admitted that this was a blatant and deliberate lie ("Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."). Not only did he cover up for Saddam's regime, he couldn't even maintain a discreet silence about it, but went and did an interview in which he lied through his damned face about CNN's "forthright" reporting.
EASON JORDAN: We'd very much like to be there if there's a second war; but-- we are not going to make journalistic compromises in an effort to make that happen, being mindful that in wartime there is censorship on all sides, and we're prepared to deal with a certain amount of censorship as long as it's not-- extreme, ridiculous censorship where -- which we've actually seen a number of cases in previous conflicts -- not just with Iraq. But-- sure! We want to be there, but it's --we don't want to be there come hell or high water. We want to be there if we can be there and operate as a responsible news organization.
Them more I find out about this, the more depressed and angry I get.
To: nopardons
No, I hadn't expected any of those, that's why this rare glimpse of honesty comes as a shock.
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posted on
04/11/2003 12:02:05 AM PDT
by
EaglesUpForever
(Scott Ritter's breath smells like crow)
To: Wild Irish Rogue
LOL....isn't that what Michael Moore said, too?
358
posted on
04/11/2003 12:02:14 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(It's a great day to be an American -- or an Iraqi!)
To: Howlin
this is nothing nobody didn't really know, except the libs and other fools who actually believe the likes of Judy Woodruff & Co. After all, CNN is a Ted Turner creation and close to an outright propaganda wing for the DemoncRAT Party and for Saddam Hussein. What surprises me is the outright admission that they were so complicit in such dispicable acts. I used to think of CNN and their sickening ultra-lib anchor-people posing as objective journalists as just above dirt in value. I was wrong, they're not even worth dirt and the blood of many is on their putrid hands.
To: The Hon. Galahad Threepwood
Dear Sir Galahad,
I have not finished reading this entire thread, but please don't lose heart..
We need you, you have the heart of a Lion..
Free Republic can and WILL be heard..
How else was Chirac so dismayed to be referred to as a "cheese eating surrender monkey?"
(Personally, I think Chirac is a PIMP)
Also heard the Free Republic mentioned by Howie Carr, a popular radio talk show host back East..
Iraq is having her eyes opened and her heart renewed by America..that much is plain to see..if we back down from this story, we will be just as complicit as the coward who wrote this.
This much is true, if it is on here, the News Orgs already know of it..
Carry on, Good Sir!
Ms.B
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