This is very disturbing for a variety of reasons. Isn't the press supposed to report the facts?
It's a basic principle of television that whenever you point the cameras at something, you're pointing them away from something else. You can't cover everything. Certainly, CNN has reported on atrocities carried out by the Hussein regime, if not the specific incidents you mention.
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I wonder, had CNN, which is the bastion of news for the American Left, reported these news stories, would they have been so vehement in their response against the war in Iraq?
Probably. The president and his press secretary were going on TV on a regular basis saying things that didn't ring true, and changing their justifications for this invasion on a weekly basis. It's hard not to at least question what's going on.
Besides, I don't consider CNN particularly leftist. When I think of lefty television, I think of things like Free Speech TV and certain independent viewer-supported stations with a strong socialist bent. If anything, CNN speaks to the liberal part of American centrism, just as Fox News represents the conservative part of American centrism. There's an awful lot to the left of CNN and to the right of Fox News.
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