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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Bullshit. They traded secrecy to maintain access in Baghdad - nothign more. They easily could have picked up their reporters and walked. But by not reporting the truth all these years, they passively allowed the spread of lies and misinformation and perhaps helped to inflame anti-americanism throughout the world.
I'm shocked you would give them a pass.
not7yS
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Whaaaaaaa? Where exactly do you get the fill to make that mountain from what's an obvious molehill? CNN did what all press orgs do - they buried a few stories to get better access later. I give them a pass for the same reason I give Arnett a pass - If you don't play ball, you'll never get to the real meat of what;s going on. The stories CNN buried were not huge stories the burying of which perpetuated anti-Ameircanism - they were, as I recall, salacious pieces about outrageous shit the Iraqi secret police were doing. How does not reporting about a secret police threat to murder a Jordanian govt official help to foment anti-Americanism? You're painting on a small canvas with a roller here.
I'll tell you what. You admit Fox News is a shitbag network and I'll retract CNN's "pass." But when the bar is so set so goddamn low by the likes of Fox, I find it hard to assail CNN for anything.
