Anyone just see the CNN International guy chew up the Pentagon?

[displacedtexan]

The silver-haired guy kept badgering the mealy-mouthed Doogie Pentagon
boy for an answer as to who decided not to allow UN investigators to visit
Gitmo prisoners "without elaborate Pentagon restrictions."

It was actually a tense exchange, but Doogie Pentagon boy refused to answer.
He just said, "We talked about it, and we decided."

The Pentagon is trying to claim that they "invited" the UN, but the UN
turned them down.

What a crock!

[Acryliccalico]

1. Just saw that and

This is what they (media) should have been doing all along. :kick:

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. What was up with that?

Clearly this guy must be new. All the media operatives know that asking real questions is forbidden unless they have been cleared by BushCo beforehand. I imagine this guy is on his way to doing the weather in some small 'burg.

[tgnyc]

3. He's always like that. He is a bulldog. They only use him on the

international broadcast at 12noon Eastern. Outside the US, viewers expect reporters to ask hard questions.

[displacedtexan]

4. Well, it was really the good old media days for a minute there!

Wave of nostalgia.

[roguevalley]

5. that was Jim Clancy and he opted for the international program

because he is a journalist and will do that. The international feed is 100 percent different than the shit we get. I've seen it over there and they tell the news and give the world too. It makes me weep. I hope you enjoyed that. The world gets it 24/7 because CNN knows they won't accept less.

[Marie26]

6. How can things be so different in the US

version? Is it based on what they think people will watch, or censorship by the bosses, or just timidness from US reporters? Clearly CNN is able to give good reporting when they feel like it.

[tgnyc]

7. All of the above. Journalism is just a different type of profession

in most of the world. In the US, national journalism is an entertainment-oriented business. Most other places, it is a social calling.

[roguevalley]

8. it was said that they do it this way internationally because they know the

foreign audience wouldn't stand for the American feed. amazing, no?