CNN Journalist ‘Governments Pay Us To Fake Stories’, Shocking Exposé
According to Amber Lyon, a three-time Emmy award winning
journalist, CNN is routinely paid by the US government and foreign
governments to selectively report on certain events. Furthermore, the
Obama administration pay CNN for editorial control over some of their
content.
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 September 4th 2012:
“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.
