[clintonbaiter]

Just as we always suspected. No wonder Peter Arnett felt so at home at CNN.

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[martin_fierro]

2/13/97: Clinton allows U.S. to set up news bureaus in Cuba

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a move it said would focus more attention on the shortcomings of Communist Cuba, the Clinton administration gave the go-ahead Wednesday for 10 U.S. news organizations to open bureaus in Cuba. Of the 10, only CNN has permission from the Cuban government.

[Bluntpoint]

"What else is CNN hiding?"

Judy Woodruff is Janet Reno's mistress.

[Zipporah]

.."things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis.."

SO according to this CNN reporter there are some lives that are worth more than others? The Iraqis that were suffering at the hands of Saddam weren't as important?

[Drango]

"What else is CNN hiding?"

They've got Waldo in a closet.

[snooker]

I would think after the confessional no one would take anything CNN had to say as newsworthy fact.

In my view they are finished. They slit their own throat with this expose'.

[chnsmok]

What did CNN know and when did they know it?

[syriacus]

What possible journalistic value could broadcasting half-truths, lies and varnished news have? The net result is that CNN succeeded not in informing its public but in dis-informing it.

In addition to dis-informing the public, Eason Jordan lied by saying (multiple times) that CNN would only report accurately in Iraq.

From a transcript of an NPR interview with Eason Jordan

Jordan lied by making each of these statements on October 25, 2002

• CNN has a spine
• CNN is forthright in its reporting
• CNN is not reading Iraqi propaganda; we're reporting as an independent news organization.
• We work very hard to report forthrightly, to report fairly and to report accurately and if we ever determine we cannot do that, then we would not want to be there;
• We're not [in Iraq] to please the Iraqi government -- we're not there to displease the Iraqi government -- we're just there to do our job.
• We'd very much like to be there if there's a second [Gulf] war; but-we are not going to make journalistic compromises in an effort to make that happen

[stboz]

CNN: Another member of the Axis of Weasels.

[leprechaun9]

While discussing this op-ed piece, RUSH asked what CBS agreed to in order for Dan Blather to get the interview with SADDAM! This effort by our President is starting to produce some unexpected results - THE LIBERAL MEDIA DOING A MEA CULPA!

[MinuteGal]

When Benedict Arnett gave his "reports", he would pontificate in that weird accent for about three or four minutes. He sounded SO professional and knowledgeable.

However, I always noticed that at the end of his spiel, he had said nothing of substance, nothing new, nothing insightful, nothing informative. It was just a spate of words, words, words.

It was so obvious that he was on a leash and hoodwinking American viewers with meaningless pap and many times, outright enemy propaganda.

This Judas, CNN and his other employers past and present sold their souls for twenty pieces of dinars and will live in infamy forever.

Leni

[SandRat]

So the Vietman VX lie was not an aberation for CNN but operations as normal.

Yellow Journalism at its best.

[Paraclete]

It was disgusting to watch the media in Baghdad during the war dispensing disinformation and outright lies. They must take responsibility for being complicit with Saddam.

[Jack of Clubs]

CNN can no longer claim journalistic impartiality, or have any credibility whatsoever in other global venues. Jordan should have closed the office in Baghdad and reported the atrocities as soon as possible thereafter. "Freedom of the press" indeed...

It is distressing to learn that CNN collaborated with Saddam Hussein in his brutality. They have the blood of thousands on their hands.

[Tacis]

Now that we know that Saddam was mostly talk, we will find that he maintained his international status by using the wealth he got from bootleging oil and sharing the Food for Oil money with the UN program managers.

He paid Chirac and many others to keep Iraq in the adminstrative arenas for so long. He also paid media types (just as Castro pays media types) to keep the bad news down. It should not surprise anyone that CNN has censored the news to fit the Iraqi agenda for many years.

Now, imagine how they shaded the news to protect Willie the Sleaze, fudge the election reporting to try and get Gore elected (the false report by the election sampling outfit that Gore had won Florida was pure fiction), the reporting on the creativity of the Florida Supreme Court, the lack of coverage about any evil by a leftist, and many other things. The Fonda heritage is alive and well at CNN.

BTW, did CNN cover all the Cubans that were just murdered by Castro, three days after the end of their trial for trying to escape? Can you imagine what CNN and the NYT would say if Texas even suggested they were thinking about such expeditious handling? Alas, the NYT is probably smarter than CNN and would never admit they were shading the truth, as well.

[Grampa Dave]

The Peloshi says: You must believe everything that CNN has to say. Never watch into the evil Fox News!

[equus]

You know, you seem to have no compassion or feeling for a man whose own staff would be murdered if he went public. He would have needed government support in such a case. He can only go public now. If he did not give this information to our government, privately, I would be concerned. As has been often said, there is much the public doesn't know. And perhaps shouldn't know. That's what government is for in situations like this.

Lighten up a little and try and open your heart rather than defaulting to your brain's little party line. These are human beings--all of them.

[MightyMouseToSaveThe Day]

Here's what I don't understand: this admission is so damning, why did CNN feel the need to reveal it now--especially when they've successfully kept the secret under wraps for 12 yrs? What benefit did Jordan expect to derive from this late-breaking confession? Enlighten me?

[Vision Thing]

What else is CNN hiding?

I'm sure they'd like to hide their dwindling ratings from their advertisers.

[spodefly]

If Al Gore was president, CNN could happily continue on with their Bagdad Bureau filing year-upon-year of stories about Saddam's birthday parties, the wonderful Iraqi "elections", and the many great Socialist triumphs of his regime.