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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?

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To: ConservativeMan55; *CCRM
Posted to *CCRM
61 posted on 10/07/2003 5:28:48 AM PDT by Copernicus (A Constitutional Republic revolves around Sovereign Citizens, not citizens around government.)
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To: ConservativeMan55
In all honesty, socialists don't care if citizens are killed as long as the government says they are making things better collectively.

Too much green tea Ted is an instrument of Government Killing Machines, the world over.

62 posted on 10/07/2003 5:41:44 AM PDT by alrea
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To: ConservativeMan55
I wanted to thank you again for your help. I got the call this morning and was 4th in line. Unfortunately the second guy got the question right. Thanks again!
63 posted on 10/07/2003 6:23:43 AM PDT by kpkenny (Fox & Friends?)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Looking at that face, it just tickles me to no end that today's National League Championship Series is a matchup between the FLORIDA MARLINS and the CHICAGO CUBS!!!

No Tomohawk Chops!

No annoying crowds doing Indian war chants!

No worn out Commie, peanut farming, ex-President from Georgia flashed on my TV screen from his seat as a guest in the "owner's box"!

64 posted on 10/07/2003 6:32:05 AM PDT by Wondervixen (Ask for her by name--Accept no substitutes!)
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To: sauropod
Ain't a captive audience fun?

Kinda like the Public School system.

65 posted on 10/07/2003 6:34:04 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: kpkenny
What was the question?
66 posted on 10/07/2003 7:12:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: Puppage
I like to call it the Public Screwl System.

They "Screwl" You.
67 posted on 10/07/2003 7:12:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: YaYa123
"CNN Airport Network is the only live, satellite-delivered television service.."
 
 
 
 
 
Viking Kittens in Space...

68 posted on 10/07/2003 7:38:52 AM PDT by wolficatZ (___|\______\0/______/|___"spoon out some chum for the feeding frenzy of media mafia sharks...")
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To: ConservativeMan55
The question was what instrument does....I forget her name, the news lady...play? It was multiple choice and the first girl got it wrong, but the second guy got it right.
69 posted on 10/07/2003 7:59:58 AM PDT by kpkenny (Fox & Friends?)
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To: kpkenny
The news lady. Thats Lauren Green. She plays the piano.
70 posted on 10/07/2003 8:15:18 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: ConservativeMan55
BTTT.
71 posted on 10/07/2003 9:19:13 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: nutmeg
Ping!
72 posted on 10/07/2003 9:33:37 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: Spruce; MotleyGirl70; glock rocks; FreeAtlanta; Rightly Biased; Humidston; Hyacinth Bucket; ...
Thought you might be interested!

We must defeat CNN!!!!
73 posted on 10/07/2003 9:39:54 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: mhking
"Just Damn"
74 posted on 10/07/2003 9:40:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: ConservativeMan55
This should be somewhere in the latest posts.

CNN must be defeated!
75 posted on 10/07/2003 10:13:33 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: ConservativeMan55
bump
76 posted on 10/07/2003 10:22:38 AM PDT by talleyman (Caviar emptor (a warning from the sturgeon general))
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To: talleyman
Thanks for the bump to the top.
77 posted on 10/07/2003 12:26:21 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all!!!)
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To: martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; Miss Marple; Tamsey; ...

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times CNN Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.


This is the Mainstream Media Shenanigans ping list. Please freepmail me to be added or dropped.
Please note this is a medium- to high-volume list.
Please feel free to ping me if you come across a thread you would think worthy of this ping list. I can't catch them all!


78 posted on 10/07/2003 1:00:12 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: ConservativeMan55
You know, I have wondered about this for some time. Also consider that USAToday is the newspaper found all over the country in airports and hotels.

I was thinking about putting up a vanity about this, where conservatives need to get TV and print media all over the place the same way that Gannett and the Commie News Network does.

Glad to see you have done so already.

79 posted on 10/07/2003 1:02:08 PM PDT by sauropod (I love the women's movement. Especially walking behind it.)
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