CNN biased reporting on Fallujah, Iraq

[Eric J in MN]

CNN Headline News, at 6:30 PM Eastern time, said that women and children are leaving Fallujah. That is true, and comes from this AP story:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040409/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_fallujah_11

What CNN didn't tell its viewers is that the reason men aren't leaving isn't that men want to be bombed, but because US Marines are preventing men of "military age" from leaving.

CNN uses an AP story while omitting information from that AP story which makes the US military look bad.


Refugees Exit Fallujah After Burying Dead
1 hour, 45 minutes ago

By LOURDES NAVARRO and ABDUL-QADER SAADI, Associated Press Writers

FALLUJAH, Iraq - The people of Fallujah carried their dead to the city's soccer stadium and buried them under the field on Friday, unable to get to cemeteries because of a U.S. siege of the city.

As the struggle for Fallujah entered a fifth day, hundreds of women, children and the elderly streamed out of the city. Marines ordered Iraqi men of "military age" to stay behind, sometimes turning back entire families if they refused to be separated.

[fearnobush]

1. Let them have it. Stop the CNN... Conservative News Network from

omitting the truth from the American people and the world. CNN is equal to the state run Soviet medias of the cold war empire.
Tell CNN what you know...
<http://www.cnn.com/feedback>

[rucky]

3. Of just stop watching

I think they don't care what you think as long as you're watching.

[buycitgo]

4. beat me......I took CNN, MSNBC, CNBC off the dial recently

blood pressure down to normal

getting to sleep much more easily

seriously

[fearnobush]

5. True.

But in order to fight them, I do have to tune occasionally to slap them with their own lies. Left unchecked, CNN MSNBC will become total FOX clones.

[buycitgo]

8. they're about as close as they can get without being actual clones

glad to hear of your strong constitution.......I can't stomach them anymore

esPECIALLY after hearing that baldybean twit Allan Murray the other night saying how many calls he gets from freepers who think HIS horrible little Bushpromo on CNBC is too LIBERAL!

he almost ALWAYS (95-100) takes the wingnut side

what a surprise, since he's a COLUMNIST for the WSJ

need any more info on him?

[rucky]

2. Mass graves?

like the ones we "found" after our siege of Baghdad?

we attack a Mosque & now use a soccer field as a graveyard?! Is anything sacred?

[madrchsod]

6. it takes these ass lickers a day to get the

the whitehouse ok to report this story- aljazeera reported this last night . they said that women and children were fleeing across the open fields to another town close by..this was posted last night on there site.. for all those who think alzizzy is a shitty news source-well there you go-wait for the news to be released a day later...

[arcane1]

7. contacted CNN and gave them shit for it"

Marines ordered Iraqi men of "military age" to stay behind in Falluja, don't you think that might be important info? It's very misleading to mention the women and children leaving, but fail to mention that the men are *forbidden* to leave.

My disappointment with CNN grows daily. I can no longer rely on you for actual news, but you are a good source for keeping up with the Bush Admin's spin, since that spin is all that remains in your broadcasts.

You have failed us all


http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?19

[Karenina]

9. CNN gives a rat's ass

about fulfilling their obligation to the people whose airways they have seized. If the Letterman "incident" hasn't made that clear I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL. Surround their offices and confront their "on-the-scene 'reporters'" with their DEADLY DUPLICITY.