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Originally posted by 350HP930
So you are for censorship? Why am I not suprised.
A person like yourself who does not believe people should be able to question their leaders or know what their government is really up to would probably be a lot happier someplace like china instead of the US.
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Please...The far-right doesn't suppress Christian thought, try to get crosses burned off county seals or push through attacks on free speech like "campaign finance reform" (McCain is no Conservative)...Let's say I don't trust American media, nor do I feel that our form of perverted media justice should be imposed on them...
Eason Jordan writes this, about his "work" for CNN...
ATLANTA —
"Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. 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 because he refused to confirm the government's ludicrous suspicion that I was the Central Intelligence Agency's Iraq station chief. CNN had been in Baghdad long enough to know that telling the world about the torture of one of its employees would almost certainly have gotten him killed and put his family and co-workers at grave risk.
Working for a foreign news organization provided Iraqi citizens no protection. 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. Obviously, other news organizations were in the same bind we were when it came to reporting on their own workers."
Long and short, CNN covered for Saddam to get access to Baghdad...They painted a false picture for simply "the story."