[heleny]

When reality is screaming that the NYTimes retained it's leading plagarist, for months, CNN is silent about murder in Baghdad, and now CNN admits that they are censored, but are still accurate in their reporting, my head is starting to spin.

CNN admits that their reports are censored inside China, but they didn't say that they censor their Chinese news for our consumption. This admission is significantly different from what some guy said about past censored CNN reports from Iraq.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

What good is their reporting the news, if they do not get the story? They admit it today... but, what is to stop them from ignoring the difficulty, and letting us forget the censorship. Are they going to put a disclaimer on every piece that they do from China, mentioning the censorship? I noticed FOX did that prior to the war beginning, when reporting from Baghdad, but CNN didn't.

[browardchad]

CNN admits that their reports are censored inside China, but they didn't say that they censor their Chinese news for our consumption.

And they didn't say they didn't censor their Chinese news for our consumption. They are simply covering their butts.

If they were reporting the truth, they would no longer have an office in China.

What this tactic boils down to is this: "Look, we really, really want to tell the truth, but the Chinese won't let us. We have to stay here, and make money by pandering to the regime and submitting to censorship, but it's not hypocritical, because we are an impartial news organization who can't be impartial under these circumstances, but we really would report the truth if we could, but we can't. Honest."