CNN's Jordan Defends Self; CNN Refuses to Let U.S. Use Its News

Media Research Center ^ | April 15, 2003 | Brent Baker

[cake_crumb]

"CNN = CRIMINAL NEWS NETWORK (and I stole that from some other poster....LOL)"

It's still a good one, and worth repeating!

[flamefront]

How about treason?

Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

[Steely Tom]

Did NPR have a Baghdad bureau?

(steely)

[onedoug]

Published Friday, November 8, 1996, in the Miami Herald
Cuba OKs CNN bureau in Havana
First U.S. news outlet since '69 needs Treasury approval
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
Herald Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- CNN has received authorization from the Cuban government to open a bureau in Havana, the Atlanta-based network announced Thursday.

If the Clinton administration approves, CNN would become the first U.S. news organization to have a permanent presence in Cuba in more than two decades.

The last American news outlet in Cuba, the Associated Press, was expelled in September 1969.

``It's something we've been trying for quite a while,'' CNN spokesman David Tally said.

In Havana, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marianela Ferriol issued a brief statement saying ``the opening of a CNN bureau in Havana has been approved and the procedures for carrying out that decision are now being analyzed.''

U.S. officials privately interpreted the move as a bid by Havana to test the waters with the administration in the aftermath of Tuesday's electoral victory.

A congressional source, speaking anonymously, said he expected Cuba to approve the opening of bureaus by CNN and a still undetermined newspaper, magazine or wire service.

The Treasury Department would have to authorize the opening of U.S. news bureaus in Cuba. Expenses for American journalists visiting Cuba are normally approved under a general license but a permanent installation there would require specific authorization, officials said.

The administration has not yet received a license request from CNN, and officials declined to speculate on the outcome.

``I'm sure we will consider it when we receive it,'' a State Department official said.

Congress has signaled its approval in principle for U.S. news bureaus operating in Cuba. The Helms-Burton law, enacted March 12, authorized them in the context of a reciprocal arrangement that envisioned a Cuban-run bureau in the United States.

So far, Cuba has not sought a U.S. bureau, officials said.

Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner, who owned CNN until Turner's merger with Time Warner, has maintained cordial relations with Cuban President Fidel Castro over the years.

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This report was supplemented with Herald wire services.


Copyright © 1996 The Miami Herald

[DrDavid]

CNN = Certainly Not News!

[Diddle E. Squat]

bump

[battlegearboat]

Best explanation I've seen yet!

[TLBSHOW]

Mr. Jordan is toast as is CNN the communist news network!

[browardchad]

pre-emptive attempt to get ahead of what I'm sure CNN fears will be the finding of documents showing CNN complicity and cooperation with the Saddam (excuse me: President Saddam Hussein) regime.

Saddam often threatened exposing the treachery of those he blackmailed, so a pre-emptive CYA confession (most likely to a lesser charge) by CNN is a good assumption.

It makes you wonder if there are many more parties than the U.S. government and persecuted Iraqis who'd like to see Saddam and his henchman dead, but for entirely different reasons.

[cake_crumb]

"CNN = Certainly Not News!"

DARN, that is a GOOD one! I used to call them the Clinton News Network and now the Commie News Network, but knew there had to be better names out there!

[Howlin]

Exactly. And if it had been the White House giving them "guidelines" on how they could report or they'd be denied access, you can bet your computer that CNN would have been out on the front lawn of the White House in TWELVE SECONDS, not twelve years, telling the whole world how they were being censored.

[ChadGore]

CNN KNEW !

[Only1choice____Freedom]

CNN = Can't Nobody kNow

[Lawgvr1955]

What did Ted Turner know? And when did he know it? I would like to see those questions posed over and over by the talking heads.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Spies tell lies.

Traitors live them.

CNN should be remembered for keeping the torture of hundreds, maybe thousands, out of sight. An enabler is almost as bad as the criminal. They should be brought up on war crimes.

CNN - French style news for America.

[Windcatcher]

Good. I'd rather the Iraqis see FNC than let CNN poison their minds.

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[Rebelbase]

My condolences to the Cuban people.

[Rebelbase]

Back in the old days, newspapers had fierce rivalries that often became news itself.

Its time for Fox to take off the gloves and beat CNN to death, day in day out exposing these people for the irresponsible network they are.

[Howlin]

Funny you should mention that, Brit discussed this tonight on The Grapevine. :-)