Former employee reveals CNN is paid by foreign governments to produce "news"

[Ares]

The Alex Jones Show
Sept. 28, 2012

Former CNN Journalist Amber Lyon: I started getting employees at CNN, longtime employees, approaching me saying, “You should investigate this. This is very suspicious. Something’s going on here.”

And we found out that, which was really, I felt defrauded as a journalist, we found out that at the same time I was being detained and risking my life to expose the Bahrain regime, CNN International is taking money from them in exchange for producing content that it airs on CNN International. Content disguised as news.

I mean one of these programs, the reporter, Richard Quest, was reporting live from Bahrain for a week. And u on a program called iList, and that program made Bahrain seem progressive. And the crown prince was a reformer.

And as an employee at CNN, I was never told that this was going on. Also viewers are not being told that CNN is being paid by state regimes some with horrific human rights records to air content disguised as news, which they’re often not even telling the viewers that this content was paid for by government. And, Alex, on a journalistic level, this is horrific.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eGDVzJNMKs8#t=605s

http://enenews.com/horrific-cnn-journalist-reveals

[Neuro]

Yes horrible, and why do most News Outlets do the same thing for Israel without being payed a dime?

[JDRock]

"cnn and all the networks paid with american taxpayer $'s,to fabricate propaganda for israel"
fixed the titile.

[Errosion Of Accord]

She was an employee and just now figured this out? And a "journalist" at that.

[jimswift]

"....Televisions is not the truth! Televisions a gawd damn amusement park! Televisions a circus, a carnival, a traveling troop of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players!!...."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI

[woodman]

I think all of us here are already aware of this. The general populace hasn't given it much thought I think. Of course our own government is the greatest manufacturer of false news and surely the mainstream media exsists only for the purpose of manipulating public thought.

[Horn]

CNN International's Response to the Guardian – Update (http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/05/cnn-internationals-response-to-the-guardian/)


UPDATE: Here is CNN International's response to Glenn Greenwald's story in the Guardian about Amber Lyon's documentary, iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring.

CNN International has carried advertising and sponsored content since the 1990s. The critical issue is that our editorial operations and our commercial operations are completely separate. No deal ever buys any editorial influence.
Alongside many other international news outlets, CNN International has carried a very small amount of advertising from the Bahrain Economic Development Board.

Before, during and after the production timeframe and airing of this specific documentary our editorial coverage of Bahrain has been plentiful, thorough, unbiased and frequently critical, as our previous response below underlines and any search on CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/search/?query=bahrain&x=28&y=6&primaryType=mixed&sortBy=relevance&intl=true) will attest.

CNNI's previous response after the jump.

1. False: CNN International did not air "its own documentary".
The Truth: It was never intended to air on CNN International. It was an hour-long program about the impact of social media on the Arab Spring that was commissioned for CNN US, where it ran in June of 2011. The portion of it that concerned Bahrain lasted about 13 minutes.

Despite Greenwald’s speculation about the editorial choices that are made when operating multiple networks with different audience profiles, there is nothing unusual about this programming decision.

[Norweger]

Modern so called journalists are nothing but bloggers and translators.

[Old Herb Lady]

Thanks for the news flash Alex. Now go get your info broadcasted in the msm.
and stop gargling with rocks already, whydontcha.

[Santa]

Modern so called journalists are nothing but bloggers and translators.

And more typically actors, script readers, parrots, paid liars, automatons, shills, and marketers.

[Horn]

Yes horrible, and why do most News Outlets do the same thing for Israel without being payed a dime?

Certain Royalties are required,

and the reason why "God Saves the Queen in England" to deal directly with Sheiks in Arabia thru a proxy.

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[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I'll tell people stuff like this and they'll accept it, yet they'll still listen to CNN and quote it to me later as an authoritative source. I don't understand the cognitive dissonance.