CNN's been running a story the past couple days about how they feel they got lied to by the military on what they thought was the eve of the invasion of Fallujah. Turns out, the Marines' spokesman they had on camera was sending out signals to see how the nutjobs in Fallujah would react to the impression of an imminent attack.
But as Glenn Reynolds, quoting Austin Bay (no link provided), puts it:
"The thing is, when CNN gripes about the Pentagon using them, it's a pretty hollow gripe. . . . Didn't CNN dupe us, after a fashion? As I recall, Saddam let CNN keep its Baghdad bureau open in exchange for 'suppressing' or 'sugar-coating' stories that would have exposed the depravity and evil of his regime. Didn't a CNN executive admit this (though not so bluntly) in a NY Times op-ed?"Yup. That's about as devastating a retort as you'll ever see. The Commie News Network needs to shut up and take it.
Posted by Toby Petzold
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Updated: Thursday, 2 December 2004 6:07 PM CST
Updated: Thursday, 2 December 2004 6:07 PM CST