Thursday, May 06, 2004
CNN Coddles Saddam, We Pay The Price
Instapundit notices this gem from The National Debate:
CNN's complicity - and the failure of the other news organizations described by Jordan (as well as The New York Times' John Burns in the book Embedded) - is coming home to roost as media outlets around the world make the claim without contradiction that there is no difference between Iraq under Saddam and Iraq under U.S. occupation. Where is the CNN file footage of interviews with Saddam's torture victims? Where are the shocking Saddam torture photos?
It is too kind to call CNN's decade of turning a blind eye to the brutality of Iraq under Saddam Hussein a failure because it was a conscious decision of the network's senior news executives to trade favorable coverage of Iraq for access to a "hot story".
The problem is, CNN has the stock footage. I guess they just aren't airing it.
Splash, out
Jason
CNN's complicity - and the failure of the other news organizations described by Jordan (as well as The New York Times' John Burns in the book Embedded) - is coming home to roost as media outlets around the world make the claim without contradiction that there is no difference between Iraq under Saddam and Iraq under U.S. occupation. Where is the CNN file footage of interviews with Saddam's torture victims? Where are the shocking Saddam torture photos?
It is too kind to call CNN's decade of turning a blind eye to the brutality of Iraq under Saddam Hussein a failure because it was a conscious decision of the network's senior news executives to trade favorable coverage of Iraq for access to a "hot story".
The problem is, CNN has the stock footage. I guess they just aren't airing it.
Splash, out
Jason
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