During the first Gulf War CNN was forced to admit the network had an arrangement with Saddam Hussein whereby CNN wouldn’t expose some of Saddam’s atrocities in exchange for exclusive access and interviews.
Funny how they had to kinda welsh on that one, once the bodies started coming out of the killing fields and the other networks ran stories on them.
But then, by that time, Saddam and the "wolf cubs" (Uday and Qusay) were on the run from the Army and trying to run a guerrilla war (having taken Chinese government advice to tie us up and bog us down in "one, two, many Vietnams" </off old ChiCom slogans>).