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

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

[MamaLucci]

If I might add one line:

Think about it.
These journalists were there commemorating freely a "US" atrocity,
while they knew their colleagues had been tortured by Hussein
***AND DID NOT REPORT IT, JUST TO KEEP MARKET SHARE***
That is what is wrong with them being there.

[Howlin]

This is just so infuriating.

[texasbluebell]

I sure hope more pick up on it. I know the left side of the media will try to "spin" it in favour of CNN but I really think these CNN guys need to be taken to task on this in a really hard way.

Anybody want to bet that the "big guys"--Petah, Tom, and Danblather--won't touch this story with a ten foot pole tonight?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads ups!

[FBD]

So, this will now be the liberal media line of defense as to why they were opposed to the war...they lied for...appeasement?

[goodnesswins]

Hmmm.....who is the CNN reporter at the daily Whitehouse briefings....? If I were THIS President (and staff) I'd surely be reconsidering what they were privy to and where they were allowed......not that the "Individual reporter" is the problem....just that CNN as a whole doesn't seem qualified in any journalistic sense.

[G Larry]

"CNN was complicit in this regime's power. CNN was more interested in keeping a bureau open in Baghdad than telling the truth."

What makes this even worse is their delight in call President Bush a liar and a war monger, when it is clear the President's motives were well founded.

[texasbluebell]

IMHO this was the network's responsibility. I will never believe that CNN wasn't to some extent aware of what was going on.

Yes and yes.

[Howlin]

John King.

And can't you just hear him saying that he believes the White House has a right to withhold information from CNN.

That IS the title of this thread: The News We Kept To Ourselves

[goodnesswins]

Yech...John King....he's the one who at first refused to refer to the President as "President Bush." Never have trusted that guy anyway....

[spodefly]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.cnn.plot/index.html

[MizSterious]

"What makes this even worse is their delight in call President Bush a liar and a war monger, when it is clear the President's motives were well founded."

Ah, yes, but CNN has ardent supporters even here. I don't understand it, but I've seen it with my own eyes. At CNN, Bush=bad, troops=perpetrators of war crimes, Hussein=benevolent dictator. CNN seems to live in a strange world.

[Howlin]

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[No Income Tax]

I am not saying there is no bias at CNN. There is. I repeat - they have done a good job covering the war.

You and I have a different definition of the word "good."

[Yankee]

Will this finally put an end to the small minority of Freeper's claims that maintain that CNN is giving the best, most serious and accurate coverage of this war?

Or will they, like the dummys over at DU, continue with their foolish beliefs in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

I will never believe CNN's reportage of anything, ever again. Not that I ever did much before.

They are a sad, pathetic left-wing propaganda machine.

9/11 and this war on terror have exposed and toppled more "corrupt and evil regimes" than anyone could have bargained or hoped for.

(The UN, CNN, France, The DemonRat Party etc, etc, etc.....)

[goodnesswins]

NAH....CNN is just usually FIRST on site when something happens.....then, when everyone else gets there the REAL reporting starts.

[MamaLucci]

I still think that your original point last night -- that CNN would NEVER put up with those kinds of limitations in this country -- is the crux of the matter.

dogbyte12's post ties in well with this point.

"Think about it. These journalists were there
commemorating freely a "US" atrocity, while they knew
their colleagues had been tortured by Hussein.
That is what is wrong with them being there."

CNN felt free to report alleged American "atrocities",
while they withheld reporting on KNOWN
Iraqi atrocities.

[MizSterious]

"Will this finally put an end to the small minority of Freeper's claims that maintain that CNN is giving the best, most serious and accurate coverage of this war? "

NO. Some continue to believe that fiction, and probably will until the bitter end.