Thursday, October 4, 2012

Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN


Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN


07 September 2012

Thursday, September 6, 2012 16:02 

saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.
- Amber Lyon
The Amber Lyon story is just the latest in a series of articles that expose the total Joseph Goebbels like censorship rampant in mainstream media today.  The first one I posted several weeks ago exposed how the NY Times basically just regurgitates whatever government officials tell them, while the other showcased how an NPR reporter covering D.C. had to leave and do her own thing out of frustration.  This is precisely why alternative media sites are taking off.  They provide the only outlets left for genuine journalism.
So back to Amber.  Back in March 2011, CNN sent a four person team to Bahrain to cover the Arab Spring.  Once there, the crew was the subject of extreme intimidation amongst other things, but they were able to record some fantastic footage.  As Glenn Greenwald of the UK’s Guardian writes in his blockbuster article from today:
In the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives’ abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime.
Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Even in the face of numerous inquiries and complaints from their own employees inside CNN, it continued to refuse to broadcast the program or even provide any explanation for the decision. To date, this documentary has never aired on CNNi.
Having just returned from Bahrain, Lyon says she “saw first-hand that these regime claims were lies, and I couldn’t believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.”
After Lyon’s crew returned from Bahrain, CNN had no correspondents regularly reporting on the escalating violence. In emails to her producers and executives, Lyon repeatedly asked to return to Bahrain. Her requests were denied, and she was never sent back. She thus resorted to improvising coverage by interviewing activists via Skype in an attempt, she said, “to keep Bahrain in the news”.
In March 2012, Lyon was laid off from CNN as part of an unrelated move by the network to outsource its investigative documentaries.
“At this point,” Lyon said, “I look at those payments as dirty money to stay silent. I got into journalism to expose, not help conceal, wrongdoing, and I’m not willing to keep quiet about this any longer, even if it means I’ll lose those payments.”
Amber Lyon, I salute you.
Please forward this post to everyone you know.  I for one want to live in a country with some real and free press.  Not some CIA propaganda arm that pretends to be a reliable source of news.
Read Greenwald’s excellent article here.
In Liberty,
Mike
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amber is has the huevos that the men don't at CNN.

Anonymous said...

That's because the media is owned and are run by liars whose "father" is the father of lies and they are members of the same club/tribe that meet at their sinagogue of Satan.

CBS/Viacom -Sumner Redstone (Chairman & CEO) -Includes: Viacom Cable, CBS, MTV, Blockbuster, BET, UPN, Paramount Pictures, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Spike TV, etc. -Philipe Dauman (President and CEO of Viacom) -Leslie Moonves (President of CBS TV) -Martin Franks (Exec VP of planning) -Louis Briskman (Exec VP of research)

NBC Comcast/NBC Universal Steve Barke (gentile member of JP Morgan) CEO Roberth Greenblatt (Chairman NBC News) Steve Capus (Pres NBC News)

ABC -Robert Iger (Major owner) -Includes: Walt Disney, Disney Channel, ESPN, A&E, ABC, etc -Allan Bravenmen (Exec VP Walt Disney) -Ben Sherwood (Pres ABC News)

FOX -Robert Murdoch -Includes: FOXTV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World

CNN -Wolf Blitzer: host of Situation Room

HOLLYWOOD Encyclopaedia Judaica in “Motion Pictures” pg 449 says “all Hollywood companies except for United Artists were founded (or run) by Jews” -Sony Corporation- Howard Stringer (Chairman and CEO) -Columbia Pictures- Michael Lynton (Co Chairman) -Sony Pictures Entertainment- Amy Pascal(Co Chairman) -Warner Bros- Barry Meyer (chairman) -Time Warner Gary Ginsberg (Exec VP pres of market and communications) -Paramount- Brad Gray (Pres of Paramount Pics) -Dreamworks: Stephen Spielberg, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenburg -Minimax Films- Harry Weinstein (Weinstein Films) -MGM- Harry Sloan (Chair) -Screen Actors Guild- Alan Rosenberg (Pres)

RADIO Clear Channel Comm- Robert Sillerman (founder) PBS- Ben Wattenberg (mod of PBS Thinktank)

PUBLISHERS Viking, Knopf, Random House, Modern Library, Simon and Schuster, Greenberg Pub, etc

PUBLISHING HOUSING Literary Guild, Book of Month Club, Heritage Club, etc Random House, Double Day, Anchor Books Bertelmanns American- Joel Klein (Chair and CEO)

NEWSPAPERS -Wallstreet Journal – Peter Khan (CEO) New York Times, Boston Globe- Arthur Sulzberger (publisher) -New York Daily News- Mortimer Zuckerman (owner) -Village Voice, New Times- David Schneiderman -Washinston Post- Donald Graham San Francisco Chronicle- Ron Rosenthal, Phil Bernstein AOL/Time Warner Books –Laurance Kirschbaum

MAGAZINES US News and World Report- Mortimer Zuckerman New Republic- Marty Peretz Barons- Peter Kahn Nationreview- Michael Leden Business Week – Bruce Nussbaum Newsweek- Donald Graham Weekly Standard- William Kristol The New Yorker- David Reznik, Nicholas Lehman, Henrick Hertzberg

OTHER Ivan Seidenberg- Verizon/Comcast (CEO) Norman Ornstein- American Enterprise INstitute Barm Diller-US Interactive (CEO) Kenneth Roth- Human Rights Watch Richard Leibnar- NS Bienstock Ari Fleischer- Bush’s press secretary Stephen Emerson- medias choice expert on domestic terrorism Terry Semel- yahoo (CEO) Mark Golin- AOL (VP) Warren Lieberford- Warner Bros Home Div (Pres)

Anonymous said...

Wow, anon, nice sleuthing. On, 2012:what's the real truth, there is a vid exposing the Jewish mafia globally & showing how the Jews running the entertainment industry have shown it a Italian mafia when in fact they were minor in comparison. The information is backed up and staggering! When they are finally exposed and can no longer hide behind victim hood, I feel sorry for those who are innocent. I can perceive of the backlash & pray that humanity reaches 4 D before that happens.