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| One2Three | Posted – 6/13/2007 8:22:09 PM | show profile http://newsbusters.org/node/13383 CNN Reporter Admits Paying to Stage Story, Capping Nearly a Decade of Network Deception Posted by Tom Blumer on June 12, 2007 - 10:11. So, what is CNN? THIS is CNN in 1998; the link is to a story debunking the network's Peter Arnett and April Oliver, who accused Vietnam soldiers of war crimes in Operation Tailwind. This is from 2003. The network's Eason Jordan confessed that the network twisted the news out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, thereby giving false impressions of the regime to the world so that it could maintain its access to the country (the article is posted at the author's web host for fair use and discussion purposes). Then there's this from 2005. Eason Jordan accused the US military in Iraq of targeting journalists, and ultimately resigned in the wake of the outcry. "Somehow" the actual video footage of Jordan's accusations, made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, never surfaced. Next, there's this incredible episode from 2006, where the network showed videos of enemy snipers killing American soldiers in Iraq. Even more incredibly, the videos were marketed on corporate affiliate Time Warner Cable as an On Demand offering. Now there's this -- paying to have a story staged (bolds are mine): June 8, 2007 -- The steamy e-mails that landed a CNN reporter in the news and out of a job detailed more than his adulterous affair - they revealed that the Africa correspondent apparently admitted paying militiamen to help him stage a story, according to several sources. For months, Jeff Koinange had been dogged by allegations that in February, he paid off gunmen to put on a show for a story about Nigerian resistance. The accusations from Nigerian government officials were so strong that CNN gave a denial during a February broadcast. "CNN did not pay for or stage any part of the report," anchor John Roberts said. "CNN does not pay for interviews." But a Swiss author - in an e-mail to Koinange's boss, CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton - details a months-long romance with Koinange, and quotes the correspondent as saying he traded cash for the story. "Of course I had to pay certain people to get the story," Koinange says, according to the e-mail. "But everything was done in agreement with CNN and in accordance with their usual standards. But you do not get such a story without bribing . . . You have to have financial resources. But at the end, it was worth it. CNN has its story and I have my 'fame.'" The nearly 10-year track record above explains why CNN's ratings dive continues. Yes, Fox declined 15% last year, but CNN got zero benefit from it, as its audience losses persisted. More current info on the network's tanking ratings was published yesterday (HT Ed Driscoll via Instapundit): CNN's ratings have been on a steady decline since 2003, when it regularly got 689,000 households to tune in each day, to a low of 383,000 last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the first six months of this year, it's up to 431,000. Fox News, its younger, more conservative competitor, routinely trounces it in the ratings, often garnering twice the household ratings and recently besting CNN in prime time for key coverage of the presidential debates. The Ad Age article goes on to note that CNN.com's web traffic is up substantially, as it appears to be a strong force in breaking news. But that doesn't change the fact that CNN's TV side continues to falter on a relative basis, and will continue to do so as long as the grievous journalistic lapses continue. Though it's relatively difficult to spin news as it immediately happens, the network's web group would be well-advised to keep the traditional TV folks as far away as possible |
| LiveNewsToday | Posted – 6/15/2007 4:06:43 AM | show profile well - that was a fair & balanced posting. |
| One2Three | Posted – 6/15/2007 12:06:34 PM | show profile Sometimes the truth is not fair & balanced. |
| Cubbie | Posted – 6/15/2007 1:26:23 PM | show profile Good thing 0ne2Three doesn't work in the breaking news business. He's about a month late on the Koinange story. |
| CoolHankPuke | Posted – 6/15/2007 10:06:20 PM | show profile Campbell Brown Can someone please explain to me why anyone would hire this women to anchor a show? She's the definition of vacuous and boring. |
| athenatroy | Posted – 6/18/2007 12:24:19 AM | show profile | email poster Well as long as everyone else is being kept honest how about Anderson Cooper's Emmy award winning story about Niger and the poor little boy Amadu who died while "Starving in Plain Sight". The EXACT SAME STORY ALMOST WORD FOR WORD was recorded and played on NBC July 30th, 2005 by ITN's Geraint Vincent, who just so happened to be with Anderson on that trip to Niger. They both interviewed the exact same docter-without-borders Dr. Tektondif. http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/2005-7/2005-07-30-NBC-5.html Now, those of you who post on here and claim to work at CNN or NBC can prove or disprove this. Have at it because I know I'm right. So what anyways, CNN and I can get away with whatever we want to do. Jon Klein listens to me and I get what I want. I'm watching everyone here who posts on all these threads and I'm reporting back to CNN security. I've told you all before I control this board and CNN. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 6/18/2007 8:39:18 AM | show profile what about the Shopping Channel? |
| raschlick | Posted – 6/18/2007 8:53:04 AM | show profile | email poster Carol Costello Does anyone know why the CNN brass is so down on Carol Costello? I always enjoyed her early AM show and thought she had a keen witt and brought some needed humor to the news. I take it not enough people agree with me? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 6/18/2007 10:32:14 AM | show profile whta CNN needs to do is get Lou Dobbs a new topic...wasn't he once the money manager guy? |
| One2Three_ | Posted – 6/27/2007 12:34:18 PM | show profile Guess who gets Paris CNN boss Jon Klein is always bragging that his network doesn't do bimbos or car chases, just Serious News |
| nyca71 | Posted – 6/27/2007 2:14:38 PM | show profile Go away "athenatroll". |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 6/27/2007 6:28:31 PM | show profile News can't be a business or we'll never get real news. Obviously if it's all about ad dollars they're just going to run the stories that attract the most viewers (and twats like Nancy Grace will have jobs). |
| LiveNewsToday | Posted – 6/28/2007 1:53:09 AM | show profile wow a new bunch of trolls invading - Bleak Spouse take it somewhere else. |
| mscott_43 | Posted – 6/28/2007 9:19:22 AM | show profile Thanks Newsbusters I appreciate your email. I, for the life of me, cannot figure out why Foxx has so many viewers. CNN may have its faults but Foxx is so out of touch and inaccurate in its reporting. Bill O'Reilly should have been canned a long time ago to give any credibility to the network yet according to the ratings he's the highest rated cable program. It is perplexing and discouraging to say the least. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 6/28/2007 9:51:35 AM | show profile O'Reilly is evidence of dumbing down the news. He plays a role - that of the grand poopa - knower of all - mouthpiece for the illiterate. Last night CNN gave him a good run for crappy news with Paris Hilton. You know it was done to bring numbers - but what a vacant lot she is. No one could be more smug than O'Reilly - I see him preening in a mirror clipping nose hairs and loving the action. |
| One2Three_ | Posted – 6/28/2007 11:27:16 AM | show profile No one could be more smug than O'Reilly Wrong again JazZ Did you forget about Olbermann? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 6/28/2007 1:52:11 PM | show profile Olbermann? The guy can put a beautiful phrase together without consulting Ann Coulter. That's enough for most. |
| mscott_43 | Posted – 6/28/2007 3:38:36 PM | show profile Olbermann overshadows O'Reilly a Zillion Fold Sorry One2Three I couldn't disagree with you more. He's my favorite program to watch for the news hour. The only thing I might change about his program is more hard news. I love his taking on BILLO and the FOXX NOISE CHANNEL. |
| feMyNysT | Posted – 6/28/2007 4:20:00 PM | show profile | email poster This Is CNN Well Bleak Spouse (not One2Three) I think Nancy Grace is great. I wonder if there'd be any critics on this "board" if Nancy was a man? She's good at what she does and it's really as simple as that! As to the Swiss author who e-mailed Jeff's boss, Jim Walton, I'd like to hear Jeff's side of what happened. I'm possibly hearing sour grapes with this woman. There's opinion and then there's the truth. Anyone can speculate about Jeff Koinange and the rest of what's perceived to have happened inside CNN, but until I read it for myself and consider the source/s credible, I'll bide my time until then. It doesn't bother me whether Fox passes CNN ratings-wise or not, I've been watching CNN since Dessert Storm. What happens on camera doesn't always reflect what goes on among the upper echelons at CNN be it New York, Washington or California. :) |
| feMyNysT | Posted – 6/28/2007 4:28:06 PM | show profile | email poster This....Is CNN Is there anyone on this forum who likes and watches CNN? Everyone's entitled to her/his own opinion about CNN and the anchors, but when someone doesn't like a CNNer, wow, they rip the person to shreds. Corruption at a network or a cable show, starts at the top and sometimes works its way down. Thank 'god' for mediabistro! They're the tmz.com version of what goes on inside the print and television media. |
| feMyNysT | Posted – 6/28/2007 4:32:38 PM | show profile | email poster This is CNN Hey....athenatroy, are you the self-appointed moderator of this board and....CNN? You report to Jon Klein, do you?? Hmmmn...interesting and curious. I wonder....does he! know that?? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 6/28/2007 5:12:33 PM | show profile I watch CNN and admit it's far more credible that FOX. What Larry King does is another story in itself. I can't watch his show. He was spectacular on radio - on televison he's just a ho-hum moderator. The Stink Factor over at FOX is why for many FOX will only be a passing laugh. Numbers don't mean shit. Paris Hilton has probably outsold the Montreal Symphony. |
| LiveNewsToday | Posted – 6/29/2007 3:01:31 AM | show profile I last heard hondacivic2003 was involved in a gay sex orgy where they all deposited on him and he had it for his dinner! |
| Vacant Minded Elaine | Posted – 7/1/2007 12:40:44 AM | show profile I sincerely doubt that anyone posting these types of messages (or at least some of them) is someone that CNN and/or its executive would bother to give the time of day too. Surely, I cannot be the ONLY person reading this who finds it odd when a responder speaks (types) in the same 'voice' as the person they are supposedly replying to. Might make someone think it's the same person with a grudge against someone who uses a particular screen name. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 7/1/2007 8:55:46 AM | show profile Let me add to that - most of these poseters wouldn't get hired to read news through a string and tin can. |
