CNN says its silence on Iraq atrocities had nothing to do with maintaining access

AP ^ | Monday, April 14, 2003

[DannyTN]

A top CNN executive kept quiet about some atrocities in Iraq not because the network wanted to protect access but because it worried about putting lives in danger, CNN said Monday.

Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, revealed the incidents in an op-ed piece in The New York Times Friday headlined "The News We Kept to Ourselves."

[What Is Ain't]

How many Iraqi's, other than those CNN sought to protect, died or were tortured because CNN's veil of cowardice concealed from the world the true nature of their blackmailer's brutality?

RIP CNN.

[Wphile]

Yep and the same question could be asked of Dan Rather. Do you think there is any way in h*ll that Dan Rather would have agreed to those conditions to get an interview with President Bush? Of course not, so why they agree to do so with Sadaam Hussein is beyond me.

I HATE THE PRESSITUTES!

[NautiNurse]

Could this disclosure (aka failure to disclose) be the reason that the ABC-CNN merger fell through recently? Maybe CNN had a pang of conscience during the due diligence process. Inquiring minds want to know.

[MeekOneGOP]

[ST.LOUIE1]

WOW! Way COOOOOL!

[salmon76]

Keep it up CNN and ABC. Ratings will continue to plunge. With Fox News' continued success, one day Fox may buy out both networks and get rid of their slanted, liberal bias.

[Howlin]

Print some up!

[tame]

[PISANO]

nothing to do with access

Yes of course and you don't have to be CATHOLIC to become the pope either.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

"As Allah is my witne$$, CNN's silence on Iraq atrocities had nothing to do with maintaining acce$$!"

[Sabertooth]

A top CNN executive kept quiet about some atrocities in Iraq not because the network wanted to protect access but because it worried about putting lives in danger, CNN said Monday.

Let them keep digging.

[Chuckster]

Maybe CNN had a pang of conscience during the due diligence process.

Don't be silly.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

"Silence on atrocities",how about silence on the truth!This is why CNN is on its way down.

[LocalT]

This will all be forgotten in a couple of weeks...but did you hear, John Rocker has been signed by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays? Did you know the Augusta National Golf Course doesn't allow women members?..do a lexus nexus search in a couple of weeks and see which has more hits and draws more concerns by the vaunted elites.

[MonroeDNA]

No matter what your bio says, you are outed.

Your tagline gives it away.

"Support our troops: Bring them home." is the official new mantra of the leftist protestors. They couldn't stop the war, so now they are trying to end it prematurely.

Welcome, Sleeper-Freeper.

And from your bio, apparantly you've been accused of this before.

[Carry_Okie]

No blood for ratings.

[thinktwice]

The Big Lie -- twelve years not reporting truth adds up to a Big Lie -- defines CNN far more than this new coverup lie.

The network deserves whatever justice righteous people have in store for them.

[Diogenesis]

Can any rational human believe Turner OR CNN? Absolutely NOT.
They are compelled to destroy justice, liberty, and the American way.

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NEW CNN TELEVISION SERIES

The New Destruction of Western Civilization by, and on, CNN

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Monday:

A program on 'Our Planned Future Complete Destruction of all Traces of Israel'
narrated by Sheila MacVicar, Andrea Koppel and Terrorist Arafat.

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Tuesday:

How the USA lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Wednesday:

Ms. Fonda Turner returns for 'Our Past and Future Treason against America'

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THURSDAY:
Ted Turner will tell of his being "a student at Brown University
...kicked out for painting swastikas on the doors of Jewish student's rooms."
Turner will give an intro into turning Hate Crime,
like his, into paying off with billions and billions of $$$$$$$$.

Ted Turner, June 18, 2002: "So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."

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FRIDAY:
Ted Turner lists the 50 compelling reasons that
CNN sponsors, highlights, and supports Palestinian murderers.
CNN will continue to focus on the murderers calling the despicable terrorists "suicide bombers".

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CNN argues that all murder and terrorism against Americans and Jews
is not really terrorism but is just a "CNN-reasonable alternative".

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SATURDAY:
Ted Turner lists how he and his lawyers scr$#ed
"the descendants of 47 black residents who pooled their money in 1920 to
purchase a 328-acre plantation"
CNN harbors terrorists. It always has been, and apparently always will be.

[Temple Owl]

Don't forget that Hanoi Ted owned the station.

[Dr. Frank fan]

The guy whose life would have been in danger was not a CNN reporter--he was an Iraqi working as a camera man.

Well, there were also Saddam's sons-in-law who had fled the country but were lured back on false promises, and then killed. Seems like CNN could've warned them, that is, if their primary concern was to prevent people from being murdered....

He and his family would have been in danger unless CNN offered to have him and his entire extended family relocated.

That's not the only option here. They could've come forward with the story and told the world that Saddam threatened this cameraman and his family - naming names. Then if anything had happened to him/them, the world would've known who to blame. (This is often how we handle folks who are in danger from the Cuban or Chinese regimes: we publicize their names, or try to, and make it clear that we are Aware Of Them, and this puts pressure on those governments not to do anything funny, because doing so will make them look bad and doesn't pay off in the long run.)

Granted, this plan entails risks to the people in quesiton and so would've probably required agreement from the cameraman, morally speaking. Maybe CNN asked if the cameraman was willing to go for it, and he said no. Is that what happened? We don't really know, do we? You can assume that's what happened, if you want to give CNN the benefit of the doubt, for some reason.