El Viajero writes:
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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.
But, this was not a cameraman,or a reporter, this was a CNN policy maker. He decides what is told, how it is told, and who is told the news. He was a witness to the particular savagery that he recounts in the New York Times article. News agencies are not political entities, we, the public expect different standards from them.

El Viajero writes:
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Besides, I don't consider CNN particularly leftist.
I disagree. They are fairly ensconced in the flaming liberal left. At least my "flaming liberal" friends in academia are always quoting CNN as the bastion of unbiased truth. There are definitely more leftist and more rightist news agencies than CNN and Fox, respectively.
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