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 Bushs Iraq policies for months, and one of the key questions was the nature of Saddams 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 Saddams regime, but concealed it from viewers.
Thursday night on CNNs NewsNight, and in an op-ed, The News We Kept to Ourselves, in Fridays New York Times, the executive in charge of CNNs worldwide news-gathering operations, Eason Jordan, revealed Saddams 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, Saddams 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 Husseins 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 Saddams secrets; have other networks also censored their own tales of Saddams 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?
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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.
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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