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| Middle East |
| CNN admits it hosed Mideast coverage |
| 2002-06-24 |
| CNN's coverage of recent suicide bombings has provoked anger in Israel and led a local cable company to start carrying CNN's chief US competitor, Fox News Channel. Fox said it expects others to follow suit. Recent comments from CNN founder Ted Turner describing both Israel and the Palestinians as terrorists have fueled Israeli anger. Interviewed on Israel Television, Eason Jordan, CNN's president of newsgathering, said his company strives for fairness. Regardless of what Ted sez. Guess one man's fairness is another man's condescending partisanship... ''On occasion we make mistakes but that's not because there's any bias,'' he said. ''CNN is not pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli. We're fair, we're responsible in our reporting, we try to be as accurate as we possibly can be.'' "I'll admit we screw up regularly, though. Why once... No. You wouldn't want to hear about that. But we're nothing like Ted. Honest we're not." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 The Palestinians and the Israelis are "terrorizing" each other? How could anyone be so incredibly deluded as to refrain from expressing homicidal rage on behalf of their preferred contender? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-06-24 13:17:39 |
| #1 We're not fools. We just work for one or two... or three. |
| Posted by: Mary Lu 2002-06-24 13:13:04 |