CNN Takes Money From Foreign Dictators To Run Flattering News Stories About Them

J. D. Heyes | NaturalNews.com

Those of you who are regular readers of Natural News – and your numbers are many – may not always agree with points of view expressed here, but we believe you at least consider us a trustworthy news source, a point driven home by the tens of millions of page views we receive every month.

That said, how much trust would you place in us if, say, we were being paid to put out certain information or relate only a singular point of view? We’re guessing that number would be much, much smaller.

Yet that’s what one establishment media organization – CNN – appears to be doing, according to multiple sources who say the network has begun engaging in a practice of killing stories that portray governments and countries which have become the network’s sugar daddies in a bad light.

Silencing government response to the ‘Arab Spring’

In March 2011, you may recall, much of the Middle East began to erupt. This “Arab Spring,” as the general movement has been labeled, began as simple protests by seething opposition groups against long-time Arab dictators but soon exploded into full-fledged revolution and, in the case of Libya and Syria, civil war.

Early on, CNN sent a four-person crew to Bahrain to do an investigative piece “on the use of internet technologies and social media by democracy activists in the region,” Glenn Greenwald, of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, reported in September.

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2012-10-04 19:22:11

Source: http://www.whiteowlconspiracy.com/2012/10/cnn-takes-money-from-foreign-dictators.html