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

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

[marajade]

She... I'm a she...

[marajade]

Yes... and it sounds like you're trying to justify why CNN did what they did...

[dfwgator]

Makes you wonder what the CNN Havana Bureau is covering up.

[swheats]

This is astounding. As one Iraqi said, "thank you Mr. Bush."

[diamond6]

What would you have done to make sure that CNN reporting this would not have resulted in the deaths of Iraqi citizens left behind? Or does that not matter to you?

[Dane]

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.

Did it ever occur to you that CNN could have told saddam that if one of their employees in Iraq was arrested or tortured for a story they reported, they would mention the arrest and torture. They didn't go down that route and appeased saddam, all for the "prestige" of having a Baghdad bureau.

[marajade]

It would certainly make almost every bureau where the US is disliked suspect...

[marajade]

Sure it matters to me... They should have just left before they were in too deep...

[diamond6]

And you think that would have stopped Saddam from doing just that? Rememember, he kicked CNN out of the country before the war.

[diamond6]

Well, at the risk of getting flamed again. Just how deep is too deep? And when could they pull out without repercussions to the employees left behind?

[Dane]

And you think that would have stopped Saddam from doing just that? Rememember, he kicked CNN out of the country before the war

Well look what that 12 years of appeasement towards saddam got CNN, kicked out of saddam's Iraq anyway, and in the meantime CNN covered up the brutalities of saddam's regime all for the "prestige" of a Baghdad bureau.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I think so too, Sir.

I have an old dinosaur of a computer, but if I can help in any way, please let me know..

Off to bed then!

Ms.B

[Prince Charles]

I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed.

It's funny, but I would've never known by the quality and cotent of CNN's reporting. Not!

So now they're attempting to portray a "battered wife" defense for their endless years of promoting that satanic despot...

THIS is CNN

[diamond6]

Look, I don't like the reporting of CNN and their slant any better than you do. But was it CNN's appeasement, or the world's appeasement (namely the U.N. countries and Clinton) that allowed this situation to go on for 12 years?

[honeygrl]

"His aide said that Clinton wasn't booed,the noise was actually applause."

How'd Baghdad Bob get here so fast? Glad he found another job though! I missed him already!

[marajade]

At the first sign there was going to be an issue... Don't you think it worse that by aiding Saddam that many more Iraqis were killed than just those who worked for them? How can you place a value on any life? That is what CNN did...

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Tyrants are perfectly willing to let the media be their propaganda tool and if the guests don't play by their rules, they're executed or tossed out.

The honorable solution would have been to do the opposite, to stay here and write bloody flag stories to get the SOB dictator overthrown.

[Dane]

But was it CNN's appeasement, or the world's appeasement (namely the U.N. countries and Clinton) that allowed this situation to go on for 12 years?

Well since CNN is the network of choice of the Clinton's and the UN, CNN is just a complicit in the appeasment of saddam, IMO.

[MamaLucci]

OOPS! Sorry Ms. Marajade. :)

[diamond6]

Here's where I differ. I don't believe that CNN was the cause of this dragging on for 12 years. I believe that was caused by the weak stomachs of the U.N. countries (especially the Western European nations), who knew darn well what we were dealing with and refused to crack down on the U.N. resolutions. What Jordan is reporting now really is not all that different than what has been reported by various sources for years.