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CNN knew
The Washington Times ^
| Monday April 14 2003
| EDITORIAL
Posted on 04/14/2003 3:46:44 AM PDT by Brian Allen
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, published in the New York Times a truly rare article last Friday: an op-ed capable of genuinely shocking even world-weary cynics in a jaded world. He announced that, over the last dozen years: "I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard - awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: accessories; atrocities; cheats; clientstates; cnn; cnnknew; cohorts; conmen; corruption; coserialrapists; crime; easonjordan; liars; murderers
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To: Brian Allen
And Cuba. What about CNN in Cuba?
To: Brian Allen
What did CNN know, and when did they know it?
To: Brian Allen
Thanks for the post and the ping ! This story has had a LOT of coverage and commentary, and RIGHTfully so, imho!
Here is another article I'd like to link you to, and an excerpt:
The News we Kept to Ourselves
Excerpt: Fellow Freepers, I suggest Jim Robinson add a new "Topic" category to this website: "undercovered scandal" or "crimes unpunished". This CNN story should not be forgotten. We have to keep this alive in some way. A special congressional hearing should be requested and the highest ranking members of CNN should have to answer questions. If ENRON was a scandal, what is this? CNN has real blood on their hands. There is no other way to put it. Mr. Jordan only went with the story because he knew it would come out very soon. He is trying to get pity, he should be grilled. There is an obvious lack of proportion and fairness in coverage, the media was far tougher on John Rocker and Trent Lott. CNN's license should be revoked. This has been going on for far too long. Clinton's sexual assaults allegations were thinly covered and only one was coverd after the impeachment vote. Remember, NBC waited until after the vote to run the Brodderick interview. Citizens have to be tough on CNN and other media outlets that put politics before the truth.
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posted on
04/14/2003 6:46:33 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Brian Allen
On Fox News Sunday's panel discussion, they let Juan Williams of PBS start out commenting on this story. He ripped CNN such a large new orifice that Bret Hume had little to add. Good to see that some liberals get this story.
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:40:06 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(United States 2, Terror-sponsoring regimes 0, waiting to see who's next in the bracket)
To: MeeknMing
I agree this is a HUGE story. I have no idea what Jordan thought he would achieve with his op-ed other than a CYA. However, it isn't working. What CNN did was morally and professionally wrong. It just galls me how CNN and the like trumpet the freedom of the press in the USA but then can totally compromise that belief and set up shop and even do the bidding of a STATE OWNED press! The hypocrisy is mind boggling.
The deaths of those two men are clearly the result of CNN's covering up of the truth about Sadaam and his regime. I'm sure there are many more.
CNN - PFFFFTTTTTT!
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:46:27 AM PDT
by
Wphile
To: MeeknMing
<< This story has had a LOT of coverage and commentary, and RIGHTfully so, imho! >>
I have spent all of my adult life "on the road" as it were, having accumulated enough flying hours in more than 40 years as a Professional Aviator [Pilot - Chief Pilot - Operations Director - Fleet owner - "Aviation Advisor" to various governments - Air Transportation Ops Consultant - etceteras] to have effectively circumnavigated the Earth more than 650 times. I've held Professional Licences in 29 countries, have lived and worked on every continent and in more than twenty countries and have at various times regularly visited more than 100 countries. More than nine thousand miles from home as I pick on my keyboard, I am still "on the road," right now."
And can attest to the fact that Eason's "revelation" does not expose even the whole tip of the obscenity that is the international "news" business [CNN and the BBC are especially rotten] -- every component part of which works in two directions so that while every one of them, in its home market, is obscenely promulgating the propaganda spewed by every one of its client states -- it is every-bit-as-obscenely maintaining an obsessively anti-American stance and is misrepresenting and misreporting American "news" abroad. CNN and the BBC and AP and Reuters among others are virilently anti-American to the extent, in CNN's case especially, of being subversive.
But then -- and again from years of first-hand experience, including that gained inside our embassies during periods as a foreign-based and widely traveling Aviation Advisor -- so is "our" state department's hatred-and-rage-driven foreign "service."
Best ones -- Brian
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:02:47 AM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:09:31 AM PDT
by
timestax
To: Brian Allen
Thanks for the info, FRiend ! bttt . . .
And can attest to the fact that Eason's "revelation" does not expose even the whole tip of the obscenity that is the international "news" business [CNN and the BBC are especially rotten] -- every component part of which works in two directions so that while every one of them, in its home market, is obscenely promulgating the propaganda spewed by every one of its client states -- it is every-bit-as-obscenely maintaining an obsessively anti-American stance and is misrepresenting and misreporting American "news" abroad. CNN and the BBC and AP and Reuters among others are virilently anti-American to the extent, in CNN's case especially, of being subversive.
The Al-Jazeera's of the Western world.
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:48:04 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: timestax
bumpity bumpity !!
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posted on
04/14/2003 10:34:01 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
04/14/2003 7:23:29 PM PDT
by
Mia T
(SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
To: Mia T
You are much beloved of G-d, Beautiful Lady -- and of me.
Blessings -- Brian
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:02:04 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny ....)
To: Mia T
CNNs of Commission... brilliant, Mia!
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posted on
04/15/2003 10:11:07 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:28:48 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: MeeknMing
LOL.
Lest we forget.
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:30:04 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
:O)
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:35:23 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: timestax
ping
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posted on
05/24/2003 9:41:21 AM PDT
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timestax
To: timestax
ping
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07/15/2003 9:55:57 PM PDT
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timestax
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