CNN Exec Admits News Media Distorted Afghanistan War

[scottxyz]

Senior CNN Executive Admits News Media Distorted Afghanistan War

>>> Rena Golden, the executive vice-president and general manager of CNN International, comments on the war against Afghanistan:

"Anyone who claims the US media didn’t censor itself is kidding you. It wasn’t a matter of government pressure but a reluctance to criticize anything in a war that was obviously supported by the vast majority of the people.

And this isn’t just a CNN issue -- every journalist who was in any way involved in 9/11 is partly responsible."

http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/cnn-war.htm

[Bluebear]

1. Glorious. So news reporting is based on "support" from the majority.

[eleny]

3. Well, then, now that the public is unhappy about Iraq - ?

[IndianaGreen]

2. CNN did not hesitate to pull Brent Sadler out of Afghanistan

after he dared to report on the US bombing of a village in which the ones killed were all women, children, infants, and old people. One video clip that stuck in my mind showed the body of a young boy being pulled from the rubble. We murdered more people in Afghanistan than bin Laden killed on 9/11!

[Disturbed]

5. How successful has the War On Afghanistan been?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview...


Cheney: Iraq will be 'enormous success story'

Cheney: "We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan."

[al bupp]

16. Unfortunately, 'tis true, sir

But let's face it, in the minds of many Americans, the relative value of a remote Afghan villager's life is equal to about one-tenth of any westerner's (unless they're French, that is) and maybe one-hundredth of any US citizen's (unless they're gay, black, Hispanic or otherwise "out of the main-stream", of course). OK, perhaps I exaggerate a bit, but not much.

[Arugula Latte]

4. What a sorry-ass bunch of fake journalists.

No wonder I'll never watch cable news again. The Internet and their own compromised position has made them sooooooo irrelevant.

[gumby]

6. Oh, cry me a river already, CNN.

What about the Runaway Bride?

[Solly Mack]

7. "reluctance...supported by the vast majority "= possible viewers lost

CNN feared the ratings....so they didn't report the truth.

Nice. Oh, they are trying to blame the people...but fact is, CNN isn't much of a news station if they are too afraid to report the truth because a viewer might get upset. ...or losing an advertising dollar

Rationalize it all you want,Rena Golden....you're a coward.

[Zen Democrat]

8. Read what Christiane Amanpour said in 2003 ...

She doesn't say CNN was intimidated by public opinion, but that it was intimidate by the Bush Administration.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x.htm

CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship."

As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush administrationline in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion.

On last week's Topic A With Tina Brown on CNBC, Brown, the former Talk magazine editor, asked comedian Al Franken, former Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke and Amanpour if "we in the media, as much as in the administration, drank the Kool-Aid when it came to the war."

Said Amanpour: "I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."

--snip--

[goclark]

10. Finally, we hear the truth

The press is starting to jump ship

[Pithy Cherub]

9. The media whores need public approval to do the right thing?

Shouldn't there be some accountability with some high level executive/anchor village idiot resignations? Er, how about hiring people who actually WILL meet the minimum job requirements. Oh yeah, cnn the trusted name to be a day late and a dollar short... :eyes:

[AuntiBush]

11. Way too Late CNN! Count the Deaths then ask "What took you so long?"

I'll never watch them again. Get my news on the Internet & only certain magazines like "Mother Jones" and "The Nation."

Have long given-up on all of the MEDIA WHORES!

[UpInArms]

12. I recall reading where advertising revenue is dropping

hmmmm....

so many mergers and acquisitions, fewer companies - then there are those that are having a bit of trouble keeping their sales up ...

awwwww :nopity:

I hope corporate amerika gets their butts kicked and realizes that they are not people and they don't get to vote and they have disregarded the best interests of the citizens of this country for far too long.

:rant:

[BamaBecky]

13. Sounds disingenuous to me -- hollow --trite -- n/t

[scottxyz]

14. This is why I don't watch TV

Only time I watch is when I have to - at the airport, or in a doctor's waiting room. Who has time to be lied to?

[insane_cratic_gal]

15. pick me up off the floor

Did she just admit to Media Bias! I guess admittance is the first step to path of recovery.

This is good yes! We've all known it, but it's nice to have to said aloud.

[Disturbed]

17. Indicte the RW Corp Media for..

for complicity in War Crimes of the Bush Regime. The owners should be on trial.

[LightningFlash]

18. CNN journalists need to resign in disgrace. The bastards lied for money...

And whoever supported this totally disgusting behavior needs to serve a jail sentence. I've never seen a corporate media conglomerate turn such a blind eye to corruption.

[EVDebs]

19. More 'CNN and PsyOps' , I suppose

www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html

Counter-intelligence, since inception. Why didn't CNN just move to Ft. Gordon (home of SigInt) and be done with it ?