The News We (CNN) Kept To Ourselves [must read]

The New York Times ^ | 04/11/03 | EASON JORDAN

[nutmeg]

Sounds like they shut down their email.

REALLY? I can't bear to watch CNN... does anyone know if CNN mentioned this Eason Jordan article on the air today?

[texasbluebell]

Yes, no kidding. The bedroom in his airport palace was pathetic. A cheesy looking faux tiger bedspread, and a red phone.

No accounting for the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

[Carolinamom]

Jordan just said that Baghdad Bob could be "deadly serious."

[MinuteGal]

Brit's panel got a few mild zingers in but they were visibly pulling their punches.

Too bad Fred Barnes wasn't on tonight. He'd have scored a TKO.

Leni

[texasbluebell]

CNN talking about this right now.

[Anomaly in Illinois]

LOL, thanks for the laugh, CNN always makes me cranky.

[goldstategop]

I was astonished a liberal news organization would even do a mea culpa. They just should have kept their mouths shut and gone ahead with business as usual. What prompted Eason Jordan to air CNN's dirty linen in public, we'll never know.

[PhiKapMom]

I haven't watched CNN for more than five minutes during this entire war. I went back and forth between Fox and MSNBC depending on who the anchors were.

I have my doubts if they did cover it!

[texasbluebell]

Cnn showing some Kurdish police video, suspects who were questioned in a plot to attack the cnn studio there in Iraq.

That's it for now.

They'll keep bringing out bits and pieces of this to try to make their case.

[whadizit]

Yes! Thank you! I agree that he is very good!

[Euro-American Scum]

I accuse CNN of being complicit in the torture of these people by cooperating with Iraqi authorities just so they could get a camera into Iraq.

Complicit, hell! They're a bunch of f-ing murderers.

[Carolinamom]

CNN CYA "story" was that their journalists were under threat of being blown up or captured. Fortunately, they say, the plot was uncovered. Had CNN not paid Iraq to cover the "news" and pulled out rather than report falsehoods, they might have retained a modicum of self-respect.

[Lockbox]

Maybe Mr. Eason Jordan should read the history on the Nuremberg trial of 1945 and re-think his position.

Nuremberg - The Indictments - October 1945

Count Four: Crimes Against Humanity

The London Charter defined these crimes as "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Military Tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated."

[Howlin]

No, but I will now!

[nutmeg]

CNN talking about this right now.

Darn, I missed it. Was anything interesting said, or did they just report the gist of the story?

[whadizit]

Me thinks they are attempting to garner sympathy since this god-awful story came out. Now, they are playing the victim! About the "potential" attack on CNN, bah-humbug!! You will get no sympathy in these quarters, you a--hole!!

[nicmarlo]

My e-mail to CNN (on line form):

EASON JORDAN said a mouthful. But it's what he didn't say ("there were the events that were not unreported but that nonetheless still haunt me") and what you all have done which condemns you.

You have gone after President Bush as an evil tyrant who should be mocked when he brought up the atrocities committed in Iraq. BUT YOU KNEW THIS AND DID NOT REPORT THE TRUTH; you covered it all up and went after Bush as ravenous dogs.

CNN is an accomplice to the rapes, tortures, and deaths committed by Saddam and his regime.

SHAME ON YOU.

I hope the Department of Justice and the FCC shuts you down. You don't report news. You lie.

[Matchett-PI]

"Think about the irony of CNN's slogan: The most trusted news organization on the planet." ~ goldstategop

Who’s Responsible For More Deaths, Enron or CNN? April 11, 2003 - http://www.rushlimbaugh.com

Email to Rush:
From: HOWARD
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:13:25 EDT
To: rush@eibnet.com
Subject: The News We (CNN) Kept to Ourselves

This man is disgusting. He lifts rationalizing to new heights. To tell the truth or not to tell the truth, that is the question. Is it nobler in the mind to tell the truth and save some lives, or to refrain, thus costing more lives over time. Oh, and silly me. I thought it was a journalists duty to report the truth. But not when it interferes with the bottom line apparently. After all CNN might have lost some its position in Iraqi, thus losing its position in the ratings… Oh, wait. It did anyway.

Of what use is it for a “news” organization to maintain a presence in a country if it won't report the news it finds there? Oh, wait. It lets them get scoops, ratings, and, thereby, money. How foolish of me to entertain the thought that their job might be to report the news.

Yet they won't wear flag lapel pins or use the term “we” to refer to freedom-fighting American troops, because that might cast doubt upon their precious “objectivity.” How absolutely vile. This is the lowest. CNN spent millions on the production of an anti American anti military piece of fiction about nerve gas in Vietnam. But will not tell the truth in Iraq because it fears retribution.

Well dude, the retribution is here. CNN like the Baghdad Broadcasting Corp are going down the tubes. I won't watch them again. ''The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.'' Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

This is really the journalistic equivalent of corporate greed. Who is worse: ENRON's Andy Fastow, or CNN's Jordan? I'm sure every crooked corporate titan can justify in their own minds their skullduggery, but they are just grubby businessman. They are not as noble as a 'journalist'.

When it comes down to it, why are we more afraid and concerned about WMD than the leadership of an entire nation? Can't the leadership do worse damage with more far-reaching consequences than a WMD ever could?
The things this man claims to know may have changed the course of history years ago - saving many destroyed families, lives, etc. Sticky situation with an easy solution - stand tall, stand righteous, be strong and do what's right, even if it's not popular or could be done cheaper...

This is very sad. This is indeed, nothing but some pre-emptive CYA by CNN. Too late. If CNN had any integrity, it would have removed it's entire staff in Baghdad when it became aware of such atrocities, fully broadcast the details of those atrocities, and it might have retained a shred of credibility.

It now is confirmed that CNN is not a news organization, it is a pack of pandering leftists who put profits first, and truth last. Funny, isn't that how they always slam those 'evil capitalists' they seem to deplore? Coward! This from an organization that will breathlessly report on anything about the Bush Administration that they perceive (insinuate) to have a hint of scandal: Cheney and the energy plan, Lott's comments, the Bush girls, ties to Enron, yet they cannot tell the truth about a murderous regime.

SAY IT! The only place a reporter can report (or manufacture a lie and report it) without fear is in the US, a country these bums work to tear down with every broadcast. PATHETIC! I'm sure CNN has the same side deal going with the Palestinian authority. This explains so much.

For over a decade CNN has knowingly hidden the truth about Saddam for years. People have been tortured and killed because CNN hid the truth in order to keep an office open in Iraq. But why? They weren’t reporting the truth! Read this news executive’s excuses. His hypocrisy is disgusting.

Why not pull their reporters out of Iraq and tell the truth about Saddam a year ago? They knew then that the truth would have supported George Bush’s policy on Iraq. Knowing what they did about the monster in Baghdad, why did CNN continue their ‘neutral’ editorial stand on going to war against what they knew was a regime of terror? Greed or cowardice?

For the sake of their business (which was knowingly reporting half truths and lies) they have been silent handmaidens to Saddam Hussein. They remained silent when the truth would have saved innocent lives. CNN is an accomplice to Saddam’s murders.

So he warned the King of Jordan.... why not the 2 brother-in-laws? They're dead. This really was disgusting. Out of his own mouth he condemns himself and it's written on paper! I guess confession is good for the soul, but how can he live with himself, knowing what he knew and staying silent. He should have been sitting next to Sec. Powell at the UN...adding his information to World!

And these are the guys who'd like the world to think the USA went to Iraq for the oil? Interesting how "businesses" if they support socialism and Democrats (think Hughes, Apple etc) get a free ride in the media (even when they ARE the media) but businesses who might not support Dems are excoriated (think Haliburton, MicroSoft).

Eason Jordan states that Uday Hussein told him that he was going to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and his two brothers-in-law who had defected. Jordan says he "felt a moral obligation" to tell King Hussein about the threat. That's all fine and good, but didn't he have the same "moral obligation" to warn Uday's brothers-in-law??? If not personally, at least through US intelligence channels?

Well, he didn't. The brothers-in-law were lured back to Iraq under promises of their well-being - and then executed. CNN has blood on its hands, and I bet this is only the tip of the iceberg. When you know evil exists and you allow it to continue, you are just as responsible as those committing the evil. CNN does the exact SAME THING in Cuba, ever since it arrived there after securing permission to "broadcast" (CNN term for exporting propaganda). The network has a permanent female career correspondent there who, to date, has never uttered a negative word about the government. These people are media high-grade cyanide.

One has to wonder how many lives might have been saved if the press had told the truth about the torture in Iraq. What really angers me is how so many of these news outlets pretended there was no or little basis to the torture stories. Now, all of a sudden, they tell the truth. Perhaps if they had closed their bureaus and gone public with the atrocities hundreds if not thousands might have been saved. A pox on all their houses.

So who is responsible for the deaths of more people? ENRON, Global Crossing, Exxon, the timber industry, Newt Gingrich, and all the other whipping boys of the left ADDED TOGETHER, or CNN? Pull the plug on CNN... they are DONE!

Listen to Rush...

(…read Howard's e-mail that nails it)

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041103/content/eib_email_transcript.guest.html

[nicmarlo]

thanks for the laugh, CNN always makes me cranky.

yw; I can be fun, sometimes, when I'm not being series! : )

[MeekOneGOP]

. . .but the topic did come up today.

Okay. Thanks.