I have posted about the hypocrisy that permeates the universe that we know as 'CNN' and FINALLY someone is paying attention!
What am I talking about? The approaching-treasonous-cover-up that CNN did over Eason Jordan’s revelation that CNN knew about specific incidents of Saddam Hussein's atrocities and torturing of innocent people and CNN CHOSE NOT TO REPORT IT...
Eason Jordan wrote a mea-culpa style expose’ about what he and CNN knew but did nothing about:
Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff. For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters ….
The secret police terrorized Iraqis working for international press services who were courageous enough to try to provide accurate reporting. Some vanished, never to be heard from again. Others disappeared and then surfaced later with whispered tales of being hauled off and tortured in unimaginable ways….
and CNN did nothing about it…
Eason knew – he KNEW – about Uday’s intention to kill his brother-in-laws and did nothing to stop it…or to report it…
I knew that CNN could not report that Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday, told me in 1995 that he intended to assassinate two of his brothers-in-law who had defected and also the man giving them asylum, King Hussein of Jordan…
A 31-year-old Kuwaiti woman, Asrar Qabandi, was captured by Iraqi secret police occupying her country in 1990 for "crimes," one of which included speaking with CNN on the phone. They beat her daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the doorstep of her family's home.
I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely.
What kind of lunacy is this???
This is despicable…CNN and all the other MSM showed the American people hours upon hours of video of prisoners in Abu Graib with underwear on their heads…and did NOTHING about reporting real travesties…
And now it appears that - according to many blogs - that Eason Jordan asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by US troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which seemed to win favor in parts of the audience (the anti-US crowd) and cause great strain on others...
I say heads should roll…not later…not sometime…NOW
I said it a couple of weeks ago and I’ll say it again….The enemy's propaganda machine? None other than our own Main Stream Media...
DR
