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

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

[Grampa Dave]

Amen Brother! You posted:

They abused the purpose of freedom of the press!

They became part of the regime!

They are traitors to the profession and to the United states of America and the entire world!

They disgust me in ways that I cannot even find words to express!

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

I guess it is because I resent anyone suggesting that I don't have the intelligence to figure that out for myself, which I think is what this kind of thread does.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as smart (or, more accurately, as knowledgeable) as you.

Just because you and I know that CNN lies does not justify their lies.

[F-117A]

Still, I felt I had a moral obligation to warn Jordan's monarch, and I did so the next day. King Hussein dismissed the threat as a madman's rant. A few months later Uday lured the brothers-in-law back to Baghdad; they were soon killed.

This jerk is complicit in a murder. I think these brothers-in-law were the ones who were talking about what Iraq was doing, and Uday, with CNN's prior knowledge, murdered them.

Amen! One wonders if his informing King Hussein lead to Hussein "encouraging" the brothers-in-law to return to Iraq. Thereby removing the madman's threat, which most likely was NOT an idle rant!

[altura]

You're right, he's just cleansing his soul.

Or trying to. Sorry, it's not that easy.

[wardaddy]

Like all liberals...it's still after all this...about HIM or HER....and the pain HE or SHE suffered for not being able to tell the truth.

Typical Liberal Narcissism.

[MizSterious]

Yankee, no difference at all, except that when all the dust settles and we know who did what and where during Hussein's reign, he might even surpass Hitler in the atrocities department. News outlets like CNN have aided and abetted in these atrocities.

[kcvl]

Thanks! I'm still so po'd I can't stand it!!!

[Howlin]

I don't know if you know this, but before I moved to Raleigh, I lived in Greensboro, home of the famous "Klan-CWP shootout."

Oh I know about those guys.

When I get back, I'll find a link to the story that is NOT from a COMMUNIST web site so you can read the facts!

[Lucas1]

As someone else stated...

"CNN LET HUMAN BEINGS BE TORTURED AND KILLED in order
to keep their bureau open in Baghdad, nothing more."

[3D-JOY]

I know people who swear by every word and opinion or slant that CNN presents.

They use CNN reporting to counter every argument!

Some are "educated" people and they can not think for themselves at all.

[altura]

I guess there has to be one doofus on every thread.

[MizSterious]

I'm sorry, but just because CNN "is better than" CBC doesn't make their coverage "good." It's still rotten coverage. It's like the guy who came in 47th in a 48-man race--he's maybe a little faster than the 48th, but he's in no way a great runner.

[Ciexyz]

CNN - Vous faites moi PUKE !

[Timesink]

Amazing. That quote is proof positive of how CNN has sold their soul to play the party line against Bush: "Interestingly enough, the Iraqis have never, as far as we could tell, taken advantage of the foreign media in the sense that all of the world, for example, the Bush administration, they take advantage of the media ... " -- CNN producer Ingrid Formanek talking to Paula Zahn, March 22

Call the B*tch on her lies: Ingrid.Formanek@turner.com

[MizSterious]

Do send me the link when time permits! Thanks!

[3D-JOY]

Me too!

I have very low blood pressure but I would not like to see it checked right now!

[Fred Mertz]

Is this CNN's attempt at a confession? Off with their heads and licenses to broadcast. This is as disgusting as it gets.

[Lucas1]

Has Rush said anything about this story? Have other media outlets had anything to say about this?

Pleae post if so...let us know what is being said. I consider this to be one of the bigger stories of the week.

[TopQuark]

CNN had been in Baghdad long enough to know that telling the world about the torture of one of its employees would almost certainly have gotten him killed and put his family and co-workers at grave risk.

Sorry, this is patently false. To the conrary: the only way for a person who fell out of the dictator's favor to survive he needed publicity in the West. That was true for all dictators --- from Stalin to Brezhnev to Chaushescu. Dicators are always poor becaue dictatorships do not make the nations wealthy. As a result, they need something from the West --- technology, grain, etc. In the end, it is not worth it to kill one of the citizens and spoil the relationship with the West.

This author has been up close and did not get it: that regime would've fallen years ago if people like he had been reporting all of the truth.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

That's an excellent point whch hadn't occurred to me.