No, what Eason Jordan admitted was almost as bad. He admitted that CNN slanted its reporting from Iraq prior to Gulf War II so that their reporters would not be sent out of the country. They admitted to not filing stories which Saddam Hussein would find offensive in order to be allowed to remain in Iraq. It’s as if CBS had allowed Goebbels to review dispatchs from Berlin prior to 1942.
The Gulf states have been “investing” in CNN, mainly to insure that they don’t off the reservation and start to give their stories a pro-Israeli spin, not that there was ever much danger of that. That the mainstream media, and CNN especially, are biased against Israel, the only true democracy anywhere near the Middle East, is beyond contention.
Looks like the Saudis bought themselves a helluva lot more than that -- they got themselves a Communist-Moslem president.