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

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

[BreitbartSentMe]

Rush hasn't taken any callers yet/

[Lady Eileen]

These were in support of a regime which placed the tortured and killed women's body parts on the doorstep of her family:

The Hollywood left supports tyrants........but won't support our troops........they can all move to France where they belong.

[nina0113]

I guess I don't know the login.

Try 'annoying' for both the username & password - someone set those up as logins on a whole BUNCH of websites years ago, then shared out the information.

[Lucas1]

Quote "I guess I don't know the login.

Try 'annoying' for both the username & password - someone set those up as logins on a whole BUNCH of websites years ago, then shared out the information."

Do you need a login to read the article? Go here

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/opinion/11JORD.html?ex=1050638400&en=ea21e8c88feae21c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

Unless I am not understanding what you are trying to do? That should load without a username or password.

[F.J. Mitchell]

CNN=Clandestine Nastiness Nurturers. Now we know the truth and may that truth make the world as free from the deciet of CNN as it is from the Monsters they have abetted and enabled.

[GOPrincess]

Rush wonders if Jordan told Rick Kaplan and if Kaplan told Clinton...

[Mia T]

url-linked images of shame
copyright Mia T 2003.

[Paul Ross]

[GOPrincess]

www.poynter.org is an interesting site which publishes articles by media writing on other media...so far there isn't much about this posted there. (But there *are* some hatchet pieces on Fox, such as today's by the LA TIMES. Also the interesting info that some reporters are "disembedding" over the protests of the Pentagon.)

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Paul Ross]

And don't forget the Clinton-holdovers and retired military honchos of his ilk who did everything they could to undermine this righteous cause....

[BreitbartSentMe]

I did try 'annoying' on the login screen that came up when I click on the link at the top of this thread. Since then I found a link on Drudge that took me directly to the page, thanks.

[FreedomFlyer]

YaYa said it best in #492 above. Think of all who must have known this but played their deception, special pleading game on behalf of Saddam for over a decade.

It's reprehensible. It's straight-up lying propaganda.

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I caught CNN reporters today on air talking about the story and telling another reporter to remember to ask the CNN people in the Kuwait bureau about all the other similar stories floating around that office--presumably more murders and tortures covered up by CNN to keep access. So, from top to bottom, CNN has been covering up for Saddam.

(1) What did CNN know and (2) when did they know it?

1. EVERYTHING.

2. FROM THE BEGINNING.

If CNN doesn't fire Jordan ASAP, they should never be believed again!

[hawkaw]

Drudge has raised this to the headline for his whole webpage.

Your damn right that this should be raised to the fore front. Interesting that Rush is talking about this.

I just don't know. This should really be put out for everyone to see.

I'm just so upset over this and Yet, I shouldn't be. Between this and my stupid Canadian Prime Minister I don't don't if I can take anymore of it

hawk

[Piranha]

CNN has now posted an article about Jordan's confession on its own website.

In the CNN article, Jordan was the hero who stood up to the regime and sent his reporters to the northern Kurdish area, even though Saddam's people threatened to kill them. (As someone asked earlier, there is no word on whether these reporters were warned about the threat.)

Then, when the captured would-be assassins were captured and made available for CNN to interview, CNN DECLINED BECAUSE IT WOULD PUT ITS REPORTERS IN JEOPARDY.

Here's what the article on the CNN website says:

"The network decided to send staff members into the region anyway [after receiving the death threats], Jordan said. When the plot was uncovered by Kurdish authorities in March, they offered to let CNN interview the suspects on camera, but the network declined, fearing for the safety of its staff in Baghdad, he said."


In other words, he doesn't reveal torture and murder for more than a decade because he values the lives of CNN staff members in Baghdad, but then sends out a few reporters, knowing that they are actually threatened with death. Then, when the prospective killers are captured and made available to explode the whole story of Saddam's regime intimidating the news media, he hushes it up to protect...his Baghdad personnel. It's bad enough to cover up Iraqi war crimes, even those against their own people, but here they are admitting that they shielded the criminals who could have linked this directly to the Hussein regime!


Craven.

[Howlin]

That's because you are already a member, I bet. It works for me, too, but when I got my new comptuer, I had to relogin.

[Lucas1]

Quote "I'm just so upset over this and Yet, I shouldn't be. Between this and my stupid Canadian Prime Minister I don't don't if I can take anymore of it

hawk"

It is a SAD SAD state of affairs...makes you just want to cry...and the big question is...will anything change after this.

We can only hope...

[MinuteGal]

I understand that poynter.org is connected to the Poynter Institute, a "non-profit" group of well-to-do intellectual pin-heads and effetes which publishes and oversees Pravda West (the St. Petersburg Times) in Florida.

So you'll probably never see much slamming of the left on this site.

Leni

[Howlin]

I can almost hear Howie Kurtz justifying this already.

[Howlin]

Link?