[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'.

[okie01]

"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'."

You are correct. CNN did themselves irrepairable damage by issuing what amounts to a confession of journalistic deceit.

So, ask yourself, "Why did they do it?" Eason Jordan is, himself, an Executive VP. His mea culpa had to be approved at the very top. These are not stupid people. Arrogant, perhaps, but not stupid.

They are obviously engaged in damage control -- via the Clintonian device of releasing dirt on themselves before somebody else digs it up.

If they felt the need to take this hit, there is an even bigger one somewhere out there that they are absolutely desperate to avoid.

There is Cuba, of course. There is also China...

[stands2reason]

How many major media outlets have reported on this? So far, I've seen the op-ed followed by a lot of internet chat among the faithful. It this information actually in the public consciousnesss yet?