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FURY OVER CNN BIG'S COVER-UP
New York Post ^ | 4/12/03 | MICHAEL STARR and DEBORAH ORIN

Posted on 04/12/2003 3:59:15 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:13:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

April 12, 2003 -- CNN exec Eason Jordan's stunning admission that he withheld information about Saddam Hussein's atrocities drew a scathing response yesterday from media watchdogs and Iraqi opposition groups.

Jordan, CNN's news chief, wrote an op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times about horrors he learned of - but didn't report - when he visited Baghdad "to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cnn; coverup; easonjordan
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To: The G Man
NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS!!

CNN's still doing this in other places. Anyone heard anything critical about Cuba?

21 posted on 04/12/2003 5:38:14 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: The G Man
Now that's a good one. Make it your tag-line!
22 posted on 04/12/2003 5:47:44 AM PDT by Cosmo (Help pay for the war! Buy a palace time-share in Baghdad !)
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To: Cosmo
Now that's a good one. Make it your tag-line!

Done. Good idea.

I think an Atlanta based FReep of CNN Center in Atlanta may be in order. With signs saying "No blood for ratings" and "What did CNN know and when did they know it!"

23 posted on 04/12/2003 6:18:22 AM PDT by The G Man (Hey CNN ... "NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS!!!")
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To: kattracks

24 posted on 04/12/2003 6:25:04 AM PDT by Nick Danger (We have imprisoned them in their tanks -- Baghdad Bob)
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To: All
Did everyone see the Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N. kiss the male CNN reporter goodbye as he left for the airport? Figures.
25 posted on 04/12/2003 6:25:46 AM PDT by Liberty
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
You should read this piece on cnn's 'sins of omission':
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?PID=1051-350&CID=1051-041103H
26 posted on 04/12/2003 6:29:45 AM PDT by visualops (Let's go freeple! Get on the monthly!)
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To: kattracks
CNN and all the other networks are still covering up on Clinton's treason corruption and rape escapade as well as his wife's crimes
27 posted on 04/12/2003 6:31:24 AM PDT by uncbob ( building tomorrow)
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To: kattracks; Liz; Howlin; Mudboy Slim
"CNN was clearly trading truth for access..."

What an advertisement. Makes ya just want to tune into CNN to see what they're spewing now - eh?

29 posted on 04/12/2003 6:40:32 AM PDT by Libloather (It still isn’t safe enough to vote DemocRAT…)
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To: kattracks
Eason Jordan needs to be arrested and charged with being an accessory to murder, torture, and terrorism.
30 posted on 04/12/2003 6:43:03 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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To: Thebaddog
CNN is a news-gathering organization (albeit with a leftist bent). Its job is to gather and disseminate news. In order to do that, it needs to be where the news is happening. Sometimes it needs to hold its nose and overlook stuff in order to stay there. It needs to employ local people who know the area and the language.

Pulling out would have endangered those local folks who would have had to stay behind. They would also lose a prime source for news. Factually reporting all they knew would get people tortured and killed and others kicked out of the country.

Eason Jordan knew all of this. To his credit, he did advise King Hussein when he learned of a specific threat. Now he has revealed this nastyness to all of us. Frankly, I think the guy deserves a couple of attaboys for being the first to do it. There will be others. Surely, CNN is not the only organization which had to overlook and not report stuff that it knew in order to protect its people.

31 posted on 04/12/2003 6:43:52 AM PDT by TechJunkYard (via Cherie)
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To: kattracks
Didn't report atrocities but told king of jordan? Like that was not going to get back to the madman.
32 posted on 04/12/2003 6:47:25 AM PDT by RWG
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To: kattracks
Let's not kid ourselves here. If CNN new about the torture and the killings, then every other western news organization who had a bureau in Baghdad knew about it, too. That would include at least the BBC & ITN, Reuters, AP, CBS, NBC & ABC (I'm assuming they all had offices in Baghdad) and quite probably Fox and Skynews as well.

They were all presented with a moral test; be complicit in order to be allowed to report in Iraq or get the hell out and scream the truth from the rooftops---and they failed the test.

I would love to be able to single out CNN, but I just can't. I'm not sure which news organizations had offices in Baghdad, but I'd be quite surprised if the other huge organizations such as BBC, AP & Reuters weren't equally complicit in the coverup.
33 posted on 04/12/2003 6:49:57 AM PDT by wimpycat ('Nemo me impune lacessit')
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To: TechJunkYard
They may have warned King Hussein, but they didn't advise Saddam's sons-in-law about the plan to kill them.
34 posted on 04/12/2003 6:53:20 AM PDT by wimpycat ('Nemo me impune lacessit')
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To: alrea
cnn, the u.n. and jimmy carter are like those frenchmen that coddled the nazis. cnn is the network of genocide and the u.n. is the political ally of saddam...If saddam is ever tried for genocide, cnn and the u.n. should be as well.

Since after WWI...Genocide is a Hallmark for Socialism/Liberalism from Stalin, Hilter, Mao, ..etc. to Saddam.

Now, We have Shillary... :(

35 posted on 04/12/2003 6:55:56 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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To: wimpycat
Let's not kid ourselves here. If CNN new about the torture and the killings, then every other western news organization who had a bureau in Baghdad knew about it, too. That would include at least the BBC & ITN, Reuters, AP, CBS, NBC & ABC (I'm assuming they all had offices in Baghdad) and quite probably Fox and Skynews as well.

No, you're not correct. I can't speak for all the news organizations you name, but I know that most of them did NOT have a Baghdad bureau. There's a reason CNN was so desperate to hold onto their bureau: Because they were one of - if not the only - western news media that had one. (This is why all those Reuters people died in the Palestine Hotel, for example: Because they didn't have one before they showed up to cover the war and they got shoved into a hotel room.)

CNN occupies a special place in the Pantheon of Evil with this revelation.

36 posted on 04/12/2003 7:00:48 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: wimpycat
I don't think they had access to those guys in order to warn them privately.
37 posted on 04/12/2003 7:01:45 AM PDT by TechJunkYard (via Cherie)
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To: kattracks
Lets not forget AOL.

Boycot the French, we should have s--t-canned aol a long time ago.

38 posted on 04/12/2003 7:02:25 AM PDT by BIGZ
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To: Timesink
I'm sure at least the BBC did. The BBC is bigger than CNN.
39 posted on 04/12/2003 7:03:48 AM PDT by wimpycat ('Nemo me impune lacessit')
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To: TechJunkYard
Let me get this straight. If CNN factually reported all they knew about people being torured and killed by Hussein's regime, it would get people tortured and killed?

How about if they came out sooner, it may have prevented more people from being tortured and killed. Maybe the USA wouldn't have had to dance with the UN for a year and a half before getting Saddam.

On the other hand, this story is just going to fade away. Any major news organization is not going to make a big deal over it because chances are that they had people in Iraq who knew about this stuff also. Chances are that includes all the major networks AND are beloved FOX unfortuneately.
40 posted on 04/12/2003 7:04:28 AM PDT by LegionofDorkness
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