More on the CNN story at the Washington Times by Jennifer Harper.
Mr Noyes makes a good point when he asks:
"If accurate reporting from Iraq was impossible, why was access to this dictatorship so important in the first place? And what truths about the thugs who run other totalitarian states — like North Korea, Cuba and Syria — are fearful and/or access-hungry reporters hiding from the American public?"
Can you say "Cuban Paradise"?
Indeed, why should anyone believe anything they broadcast?
Oh, I forgot... all mainstream media are part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracytm.
But there's more:
Fox News media analyst Eric Burns said he "commended" Mr. Jordan, if he had indeed protected innocent people from harm. "But why reveal all this now? Maybe CNN wants to cash in on the current pro-liberation sentiment," Mr. Burns said. "If he had knowledge he couldn't reveal, then I hope that it would at least be reflected in CNN's coverage."
We all know that his knowledge was NOT reflected in CNN's coverage, as they consistantly held the leftist, "hands off Iraq" and "Bush is a Cowboy" line.
Here's a clue for the editorial staff at CNN...
Like the French, you chose to align yourselves with an evil murderer for commercial gain. You aided and abetted his crimes so you could report on them, improving your ratings and raising your ad rates. Is it that tough to make a living in the 24 hour news business?
A jounalist who reports the truth, no matter the cost, is one of the lynch-pins of democracy, fullfilling the people's right to know the truth.
One who repeats the tyrants lies is just another aparatus of oppression.
You have besmirched a noble profession with your craven supplication to Saddam, by ignorantly (or knowing it to be false) comparing him to Bush, by reporting the Ba'athist Party line as if it were absolute truth.
Mr Jordan, I wish all the pain you enabled Saddam to inflict on others to settle into your soul for the rest of your days, I hope you never get a full nights rest again, may your nights be filled with the nightmare screams of the people who were killed while you were fullfilling your journalistic obligations.
Dictators all over the world know not to torture of murder the western media... they don't have to... all they have to do is mouth some marxist cant and you will all clamor to interview them... of course, you will have to sanitise what you actually report so as to "protect your sources"... and your jobs...
By the way, what do you guys know that you haven't told us about Cuba?
Posted by Mike S at April 12, 2003 02:12 PM