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Defeating CNN.
Posted on 10/06/2003 10:22:18 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Yesterday I was at the Lambert-St Louis International Airport. While waiting for my flight I watched the football game between Miami and the New York Giants.
Below the screen there is an image on the frame on the TV that says "CNN" "The most trusted name in news"
Then the game ended and it immediately switched over to "Highlights of Larry King."
I was subjected to 5 minutes of listening to Larry King interview some washed up actor. I would have changed the channel but there was no remote and no buttons.
Now we must complain to the airports and hotels!
Take CNN off NOW!!!!!
CNN is a biased bizatch!!!!
Here's some info to send to the airport. Also check out www.mrc.org
CNN Admits Honest Reporting Was Impossible, So Why Go To Baghdad?
Americans debated President Bush’s Iraq policies for months, and one of the key questions was the nature of Saddam’s regime — was the dictator pragmatic enough to genuinely cooperate with U.N. inspectors, or was his regime so thoroughly evil that it could not be reformed, disarmed or contained? It turns out news organizations reporting from Baghdad had lots of information about the true nature of Saddam’s regime, but concealed it from viewers.
Thursday night on CNN’s NewsNight, and in an op-ed, “The News We Kept to Ourselves,” in Friday’s New York Times, the executive in charge of CNN’s worldwide news-gathering operations, Eason Jordan, revealed Saddam’s thugs harassed his staff, imprisoned Iraqi citizens who worked for CNN, and hatched a plot to murder his reporters working in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
“The secret police terrorized Iraqis working for international press services,” he disclosed. “Some vanished, never to be heard from again. Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways.”
“I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed,” Jordan wrote. He felt CNN could not reveal any of their information without putting lives at risk: “An aide to Uday [Hussein, Saddam’s son] once told me why he had no front teeth: henchmen had ripped them out with pliars and told him never to wear dentures, so he would always remember the price to be paid for upsetting the boss. Again, we could not broadcast anything these men said to us.”
“I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein’s regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment,” Jordan concluded. “At last, these stories can be told freely.”
In the October 28, 2002 New Republic, Franklin Foer documented how foreign journalists in Baghdad were afraid of reporting anything that would upset Saddam and get them kicked out of Iraq. Jordan now admits that CNN kept many of Saddam’s secrets; have other networks also censored their own tales of Saddam’s evil? If accurate reporting from Iraq was impossible, why was access to this dictatorship so important in the first place? And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states — like North Korea, Cuba and Syria — are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bias; ccrm; cnn; damned; fnc; foxnews; news
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To: ConservativeMan55
You're welcome. The more these people and their AGENDA is exposed, and then removed from the public, the better. Thanks for your part in helping!!
Right now it is FORCE fed to us. A lot happened while we were (collectively speaking) sleeping.
To: ConservativeMan55
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:05:52 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: ConservativeMan55
I dunno. I'll go look around. He looked a little uncomfortable though.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:06:21 AM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17))
To: ConservativeMan55
With regards to CNN being played in airports, those TVs are or were part of the CNN Airport Network. Some just play regular CNN, because as air travelers know, CNN Airport Network is a real piece of crap. Anyhow, I think there would be an issue changing those TVs to another station as CNN paid for them to be installed in the airports. The only way you're going to get FOX on is if you have an airport where they installed their own system, and an airport director who like FOX News.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:06:36 AM PDT
by
July 4th
To: ConservativeMan55
Brooke Alexander is a promo person for Foxnews. She does commercial promos.
Steve Doocy's son took Carmen Electra to his prom.
Carmen Electra is Brian Kilmeade's favorite guest.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:07:02 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: ConservativeMan55
OK good, I am pretty up to date on current events so I should be OK with that.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:09:36 AM PDT
by
kpkenny
(Fox & Friends?)
To: ConservativeMan55
Just because you are crazy doesn't mean you are a Rat
...but it has to help!
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:10:10 AM PDT
by
JayNorth
To: JayNorth
LOL!!!
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:10:45 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: kpkenny
Bookmark this thread, I'll be back later!!!
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:11:11 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: kpkenny
E.D. is from Dripping Springs Texas.
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:12:14 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: ConservativeMan55
Or you could have gotten up and walked away.
Could there be any more telling commentary on CNN than a screen with no watchers?
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posted on
10/06/2003 11:46:16 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: ConservativeMan55
McEwen was filling in this weekend on FOXnews. Sunday morning, he hit a golf ball through a FOXnews window while they did an outside demo. ;-))
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posted on
10/06/2003 12:49:27 PM PDT
by
spookycc
(Never forgive! Never forget!)
To: kpkenny
Welcome to FR!!! I hope you've gotten the warning that this place is addictive. There is no cure, no 12-step program ...... just lots of discussion and humor and great people (with a few jerks thrown in for variety). For many of us it was such a relief to find so many other like-minded people that we felt we had finally come home.
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posted on
10/06/2003 1:05:28 PM PDT
by
kayak
(Have you donated to FR yet? Visit the FReepathon thread and help keep the lights on.)
To: kpkenny
E.D.'s husband's name is Joe Hill.
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posted on
10/06/2003 2:51:44 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: ConservativeMan55
I had a similar experience in a hospital waiting room recently. The TV was
blaring CNN so loudly I was unable to read, and literally every newsbite I heard was egregiously biased leftward. I finally couldn't take it anymore and found a chair in a hall where I could sit and read in peace.
But as I left the waiting room I looked around at some two dozen people just sitting there, placidly letting those biased words wash over them, oblivious, apparently, to the way the days events were being spun by the political activists at CNN. It was one of those despair-for-humanity moments.
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:12:46 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: beckett
Very interesting.
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posted on
10/06/2003 3:46:40 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
To: ConservativeMan55
CNN is to American Liberals to what Pravda was to the Soviets.
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posted on
10/06/2003 6:07:09 PM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: ConservativeMan55
Fat chance in Atlanta : 1). CNN headquarters >>> I am ashamed to say. 2). Airport controlled by the Communist (alias: the Democrats)
To: ConservativeMan55
I use to change all the channels in the local Costco and Sams to FoxNews. After about a month of doing this, they both started setting a least one big screen TV to FoxNews!!!
To: ConservativeMan55
I will never make hotel reservations without asking if they have FOXNews. But getting airports to give up CNN before there is a replacement? I don't think so.
I found this:
"CNN Airport Network is the only live, satellite-delivered television service that provides up-to-the-minute news, information and entertainment to the traveling public. Launched in 1992, our service is now offered in 39 of the nation's busiest airports, covering more than 1,775 gates and other viewing areas. Our success is based on our excellence in programming, our technical expertise, our response to passenger, airport and airline needs and our familiarity to travelers in the airport environment. "
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posted on
10/06/2003 10:13:08 PM PDT
by
YaYa123
(@CNN Is Fading Fast.com)
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