CNN censorship? probly just mistake
My friend forwarded me this email, blowing the whistle on CNN censorship of Hans Blix's report to the UN.
From what I can see, it looks like an editing error more than "blatant censorship".
A 900-word section was cut out of the original CNN transcript. It begins with "I trust that the Iraqi side will put together a similar list of names..." and ends with "This was a declared site, and it was certainly one of the sites Iraq would have expected us to inspect."
I'm pretty sure that it's a mistake rather than purposeful censorship because:
- It's one big block of text, not clips here and there throughout the document. There's no other differences (I did a "diff").
- Continuity is totally lost by the cut - the next sentence "We have noted that the two satellite images of the site were taken several weeks apart" refers to the "declared site" in the previous paragraph, which if cut, renders the next sentence into a total non-sequitur. It's unlikely that CNN censors would purposefully make a cut that left such a glaring residue.
However, on the same note of media bias, especially TV news, you should read this awesome editorial in today's Times by Paul Krugman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/opinion/18KRUG.html
later,
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Comments
I can believe that it may have been a mistake by CNN to only post an edited version. The problem I have though is that they reposted the full version (with the EXACT same URL) and never made mention that there was a mistake.
Those types of actions, imply some need for secrecy or cover-up.
Posted by: concerned citizen | February 24, 2003 10:58 AM