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."

[11th Earl of Mar]

Isn't this the same thing they did with the Clinton administration?... looking the other way so they would not lose access to the White House ?

[Leatherneck_MT]

This whole denial is a bunch of hogwash. At the very least they should have told someone in the Government. At the very LEAST they should have done that.

CNN is worried about coverage and their slant ON that coverage, nothing else.

The whole shooting match should be thrown out of the country.

Semper Fi

[Sub-Driver]

CNN is blocked on my home cable box till they are outta business........

[LurkerNoMore!]

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.

Baloney.

[Travis McGee]

CNN = Collaborators' News Network

Still reporting peace and sunshine in Cuba as dissidents are imprisoned and escapers are shot.

[PsyOp]

Hmmm.... if that were true, you'd think they would have been a little more pro-war and liberation during the ramp-up. But of course they weren't. Curious dichotomy. They knew all those bad things and still carried Saddams water.

[estjohn]

I've been watching Fox for a while, barely ever watching CNN. Recently I started skipping channels more for live reporting. The bias on CNN is so bad and blatant that I find myself having to switch to another channel right away. CNN is joke. MSNBC is better than CNN. Of course the non-cable news is even worse.

[SweetSue]

And the motto of CNN is "The most trusted name in news."
..... Not anymore .. if it ever was!

[weegee]

CNN shielded a dictatorship BUMP!

[gswilder]

Did you just see the video Fox showed. It was the Iraq UN ambassador as he left for wherever. The just went on and on to the CNN correspondent. Thanked him and all his staff for all they did. Even walked back over to him and gave him a hug and a kiss. He only singled out the CNN folks.

CNN - Sleeping with the Enemy!

[OldFriend]

There was an obvious solution. Close up shop, go home, and report the truth. Untold lives could have been saved. As it is, other than confirming what we always knew about CNN, they accomplished nothing.

[Diddley]

CNN - We bury (articles). You dig.
CNN - RIP

[DannyTN]

"Curious dichotomy. They knew all those bad things and still carried Saddams water. "

It tells you where their values lay. They support the leftist agenda regardless of the agenda's merits and are willing to "shape" the news to that end.

[Krodg]

The guy whose life would have been in danger

They did not hold this info to save an Iraqi, or even one of their own reporters... they hid the facts to have access. How many lives might have been saved if a truly 'credible' source had come forward? The ratings they could have had are amazing compared to what they now have and deserve.

[flamefront]

CNN LIES for Saddam!

[Dog Gone]

That was a precious moment. Saddam's regime loved CNN.

How special.

[Diddle E. Squat]

But even if one can excuse them for not reporting on the atrocities, what damns CNN is that their reporting/programming/underlying editorial bias was slanted AGAINST Bush's push for regime change. It is one thing to stay silent yet let others attempt to liberate those you know who are oppressed, and quite another to try and prevent the ending of repression.

For example, I can understand how someone living in a neighborhood terrorized by gang activity staying quiet out of fear, but there is no excuse for doing so AND actively hindering police and investigators who try to remove the gangs.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Their Sunday morning joyride into Tikrit would be a recent example, leaving one of their entourage with a head wound.

[Havoc]

Yeah, they did it to protect their people while they were in country telling lies and covering for Saddam. Pretty pathetic. No matter how you look at this, they did it to
themselves. Cut a deal to report the "news" so long as the news is the propaganda they approve (ie not news because it isn't the truth) The very deal defeats itself. No weasling out of this one. Though I'm sure we're in for some grand prize bs from them for some time to come.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Oh please. He/she actually has a well-stated homepage. I may not agree with all his/her positions, but at least he/she is a straight-shooter. No need to get ugly.