One wonders whether Amanpour was hoping to bury the memory of what Eason Jordan said about CNN in "The awful news CNN had to keep to itself
" in the International Herald Tribune April 12, 2003 The New York Times, or what Frank Foer said in "Air War - How Saddam Manipulates the U.S. Media" originally in The New Republic Oct. 28, 2002. And just as Amanpour is trying to block out CNN's record (&arhaps its continued kowtowing to other dictators like Castro), along come tthe really damning observations made by John F. Burns of The New York Times, who filed so many excellent stories from Iraq, in an interview "John Burns: 'There Is Corruption in Our Business'" in Editor &ublisher Sept. 15, 2003.
From Burns's remarks:
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Yeah, it was an absolutely disgraceful performance. CNN's Eason Jordan's op-ed piece in New York Times missed that point completely. The point is not whether we protect the people who work for us by not disclosing the terrible things they tell us. Of course we do. But the people who work for us are only one thousandth of one percent of the people of Iraq. So why not tell the story of the other people of Iraq? It doesn't preclude you from telling about terror. Of murder on a mass scale just because you won't talk about how your driver's brother was murdered.
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Another excerpt:
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There is corruption in our business. We need to get back to basics. This war should be studied and talked about. In the run up to this war, to my mind, there was a gross abdication of responsibility. You have to be ready to listen to whispers.