Former Reporter Amber Lyon Exposes Massive Censorship at CNN
I 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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Bravo to Amber Lyon!
You are a very courageous lady!
Courageous, my ass. Why didnt she come out with this BEFORE she was fired? Now speaks out in retaliation? Like all of those Generals who announce their opposition AFTER the war has killed millions.
The real courageous ones are the ‘little’ guys who didnt have major corp media jobs and told the truth back when no one else would- like the alternative press- no not the corp alternative press like Soros/CIA Democracy Now and their ilk.
Piss on Amber and her kind. How long was she on CNN payroll til now? Fail.
Thank you anonymous. You guys should at least use screen names.Are you afraid of these inbreed pansy’s? You have my promise we will crush them and when we are through they will pray to whatever impotent god they pray to for sanctuary in the ninth circle of hell. This pig Amber Lyon just happens to be a little more perceptive that her fellow traitors. She must hang like the rest of them. We don’t need her to tell us that they are lying to us.
The iron curtain has fallen on America. This media is no different than the government-controlled propaganda machine of Nazi Germany, and the old Soviet Union. And it all happened without a single shot being fired.
Anonymous, Sep 7, 2012, 9:35 am
Go and read “Nazi” newspaper reprints, listen to historc reels on you tube, then compare
Nazi News to what verifieable happened at the time. Compare this with what “news” are served up
to you in the US today, where a little while later you will invariably find that somebody is trying to crap into your head. Apparently the injected crap is functioning successfully otherwise you wouldn`spread such b/s
regarding Germany.
Anon 12:25 – BS regarding Germany?? I think Anon 9:35 is right. Yes they may have been a lot more honest and accurate about happenings, but the papers were also full of propaganda and anything not supportive of, or “approved” by the rulers at that time didn’t have a chance at making it into the “news”.
I hope she does not get killed in some fashion, as is how they deal with this kind of person, you know, the honest and good ones. Yah help her now.
Oh… she was forced to do it or she did it for a paycheck?
If she didn’t do it for a paycheck, she could hold up the still uncancelled check to prove her veracity. If she can’t do that, she is merely a distraction for some other bone headed reason i am sure you all will fall all over each other to follow closely.
We have lies and propaganda instead of the truth because the rank and file have no backbone. Amber is in the extreme minority and it is too bad there are not many more like her.
They would not get away with controlling the news if those who reported it chose honesty and stood up to the liars they work for. The sheeple enable their handlers.
Oh wow….I’d never have believed that. Whaaaaaa CNN? They don’t call it the Cooked News Network fer nuttin’. Good that an insider has pulled punches tho’, but is it gonna effect change?
pulled punches?
Ozzie Thinker ~ [Yer a rare species!] ~ of course there will be change…for the worse!
& otherwise debilitating downward spiral of events!
Mark Brander ~ of course yer right!
wanda ~ wantabe?
Wretched Infidel ~ misery loves company & we are all miserable, all 10 of us! Certainly many more than 10 of us will be killed!
SKuNKy ~ ‘Anonymous 12:25/9:35 Uncertain of yer points being confirmed or denied but it seems the correlation is accurate considering no internet in WWII era. And finally, yes, to
PhilippinoBob ~ Amber Lyon, Glenn Greenwald, ‘Mike’, ‘Before It’s News’, ‘Blacklisted News’ & ‘The Daily Sheeple’ ~ Thanks for the continued coverage & comments to help some of us cope with what is an exhilarating
MikeWon…
Wantabe? What ever does that mean? I sense you maybe don’t see it the way i view it, but i never heard of that term. I’d appreciate if you would provide a definition for wantabe. Thanks in advance.
CNN might be trying to downplay Syria to lessen the chance of popular approval of
intervention aka war, because with Russia and China backing Syria (and Iran) we
are looking at WW 3.
Well done Lady. Follow J Gestoso steps and you will report the real world.
u got into journalism and didn’t know this was how it operates? wow, they saw you coming…
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I see… this is news? Boo Hoo Hoo… they made me lie.
Its an AMBER ALERT… she ain’t LYON… is she?
Is this news? They fake news stories and these actors lie about it all the time… they never don’t lie… so, again… is this news?
Its an AMBER ALERT.
And she ain’t LYON… oh wait… she is LYON.
The story isn’t the story…
WHAT happened to my comment? Why was it censored?
Amber thank you for coming out. If more reporters did that, then the media owners would feel the pressure. To those who criticize her don’t judge her until you have stood in her shoes. You may think she took an easy way out but now her head is on the block and she has to look over her shoulder to see if Big Brother is behind her. Godspeed.
Commies lie! Who knew?
Amber may be angry because her story didn’t air but you’re not taking into consideration what an awful reporter she was. She was truely an embarassment to CNN. She was just someone who didn’t make it…it’s easy to blast your former employer.
The media has no credibility and has had no credibility for a long time. This chick is no ‘hero’, many have said the same long before her.
It isn’t as if any rational person still believes the USA is a free country. Think about it. No-warrant wire taps, indefinite detention of citizens without charges, approval of rendition of prisoners and torture, stop and frisk without probable cause, search and seizure without a warrant, no-knock entry, confiscation and destruction of cameras that might have been used to film police acting illegally, police brutality, police shootings that go without investigation, managed news, and the civil-rights destroying “Patriot” Act.
Acts of police behaving illegally, with shootings, Tasers, and unwarranted violence now appear almost daily. Rarely are these offenses punished. Most often “an investigation” is claimed, but soon forgotten.
In addition, the USA, with 5% of the world population, has 25% of all of the prisoners in the world. That means the USA has the most people in prison of any nation in history. Even by percentage of residents incarcerated, not just sheer numbers. USA is # 1! Does any of that sound like a free country?
As Dwight D. Eisenhower said about communism, “It’s like slicing sausage. First they out off a small slice. That isn’t worth fighting over. Then they take another small slice that isn’t worth fighting over. Then another and another. Finally, all you have left is the string and that isn’t worth fighting over, either.