Well...just my opinion...but I think this is one of the biggest stories (here in the United States) in some time.
It cuts to the heart of everything we are supposed to "believe" from our news media.
CNN is not the only guilty party here...
The question is...will we find out who else is guilty.
"The question is...will we find out who else is guilty." I think we will. The reason is, I think CNN KNEW they HAD to tell about it. Why? Because the REGIME they were protecting has FALLEN and is being exposed for who it really was by Iraqi's who witnessed it.
They must be "very afraid" to have come out with this at this time. They KNOW it was going to be exposed. PURE AND SIMPLE!!
It makes me wonder what else they HAVE NOT REPORTED. I have a feeling we are going to find out much much more....
CNN is definitely not the only guilty party.
The minute I heard Rush read this NYT report this morning, I remembered seeing Jim Avila on NBC reporting from Havana in 2000. He was standing on the same street corner I'd stood on six months before crying my eyes out about what a mess the place was and the dreadful conditions the Cubans had to endure. But Avila saw it another way; he was standing there saying how great life was, how much the people liked Castro. I wrote him an email pronto telling him that I KNEW he was flat-out lying.
Avila got an award from media watchdog group mediaresearch.org for the lies he spun in Cuba after Elian was snatched by the Clintonistas and sent back:
Semper Fidel Award (for Jim Avila’s Admiration of Fidel Castro)
"What is deprogramming? What is reeducation? The young man [Elian] will go back into the, into the school system in Cuba. The school system in Cuba teaches that communism is the way to succeed in life and it is the best system. Is that deprogramming or is that national heritage? That’s certainly what he’ll be learning. He’ll also be living in a different kind of society, a society that many people here in Cuba like. The CIA, in fact, says that if the borders were open that most, 90 percent of the population here in Cuba would stay in Cuba because they like it."
-- NBC News reporter Jim Avila from Cuba on CNBC’s Upfront Tonight, June 27 " (from
http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/bestof/2000/best13-15.asp Media corruption runs wide and deep like an open sewer whose stench you cannot escape. It's time to clean it up.