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

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

[IC Ken]

re:So why is CNN relieving themselves of a long kept secret to the NYTimes? Why not report it on CNN, LIVE?

Because no one watches CNN

[KingKongCobra]

That was outstanding!!!

[visualops]

hehehe heh

but in that they are a happy & willing participant

[Northern Yankee]

Evil will truimph when good men stand by and do nothing...

Sadly... this seems to be the case with CNN.

[BlueLancer]

J'ACCUSE! Hypocritical Cowards!

[gridlock]

Thank you. But I still do not feel much better now. I'm still PO'ed.

It's a racist assumption that the local employees just don't matter. You can get local drivers a dime a dozen. Literally. So foriegn companies tend to treat them as non-humans.

Sometimes that non-human status is revealed. Like when the local employees disappear off the street, and nobody does a damn thing about it.

[AndyJackson]

. I don't think they handled it correctly. I just meant to say I can understand their motive in that regard

Didn't handle it correctly? This is like saying you don't think Hitler handled it correctly. Do you have no sense of moral outrage at an organization that is complicitous with evil? Would you take an apology from Stalin? Have you also lost your outrage? Has hell gone from a hot buring place to a cold gloomy icy place?

[AndyJackson]

What about the lives of the Iraqi citizens he was protecting? Is that not worth something?

This is like using silence to protect the lives of those incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp.

[7thson]

You are correct. Now that the truth is coming out on this regime, you will see more and more pieces like this from different organizations, saying they knew about the torture and killing but did not say anything because they did not want more torture and killings to happen. CNN, the Olympic organization, the UN, the French, the Germans, the Russians, the weapons inspectors - they all knew and yet said nothing!

[KingKongCobra]

Well this won't make you feel better.

I wonder if Mr Jordan warned those employees that he sent to the Kurd area? You know, the ones with the death threat? Luckily, the Kurds stopped the killers but did CNN send those people to die without warning them? Were they planning to have one great final story? Would anyone have taken the assignment if they knew it was a death wish?

CNN is EVIL!!

[William McKinley]

This is an awesomely important story, and its significance seems to go right over the head of the author.

By willingly participating in this sham, he enabled the regime and helped it portray to the world an aura of normalcy, calling question on those who spoke out about its abhorrent nature.

CNN did not have to do that. It didn't have to do the brave thing and report anyway, but it certainly didn't have to be a willful pawn in Saddam's media game. It could have chosen to not be in Iraq at all. No information would have been much superior to misleading information.

This guy, and all those like him, should feel nothing but shame. They helped this dictator.

[kcvl]

Ask him...

eason.jordan@turner.com

[William McKinley]

I read it. I replied. I then started reading the other replies and found that you and I had the same exact reaction to the piece.

[mombonn]

I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me.

I hope they continue to rot your bones, you creep. I certainly hope you don't think that "telling your story" will somehow relieve you of the role you had in the MURDER and TORTURE of innocent human beings.

May you never enjoy a decent night's sleep.

[AndyJackson]

I value life - all life. That sometimes involves making tough decisions.

Since when is it a tough moral decision to be honest, first to yourself, and then to the public at lage, about a brutal thug. They were looking pure evil in the face, and they flinched.

[wolf6656]

I would like to think that some of what CNN is "leaking" now, was reported to the proper gov't authorities. It was certainly known by US Intelligence, (if CNN could see it), but nothing was said out loud, to allow time for the plans to be drawn up, and the troops and equipment to arrive in the theatre, and General Franks' brilliant surprise ground war launched. When the intelligence assets were secured, the story was allowed to leak. I wonder if Colin Powell brought this information to the UN Security Council? If so shame on them. Certainly it was known at the White House. Did the state department tell Cretien about this? If so, a lot of Canadians will be looking for Cretien's statues today.

[self_evident]

You know I haven't been freeping much lately but this article made me. What an arrogant self-centered ahole. I can't comment more without blowing a veign.

[Redleg Duke]

Hey, CNN! Didn't your momma tell you, "When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas!"?

CNN cannot buy their redemption with expost-facto confessions! They all deserve to be unemployed. They didn't report this because they didn't want to be forced out of Baghdad, where the lucerative news would be.

[Maigrey]

Obviously, if they really cared, they would have told someone at the UN. < /sarcasm >

Again, I am appalled at the people who feel that, on the one hand, felt that reporting these things would endanger the people involved, but on the other hand, say something now 'cause it's the chic thing to do.

Lastly, I'm appalled that these people are just now saying something. For me, they are complicit in helping the inmates run the assylum.

[RightOnline]

Bulls**t, CNN. You knew of the filth, the blood dripping from the hands of this regime for years by your own admission....................and did everything you could as a "news" network to torpedo this whole operation and the administration's efforts to free Iraq.

Don't EVER wonder why your viewership numbers are in the toilet and slowly swirling down the drain. You are the Al Jazeera of the Western world.