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03-24-2003 02:22 AM ET (US)
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OK, someone's gotta talk about this, and no matter how much I've enjoyed Sites' blog, I guess it'll be me.
I actually watched a live report from Kevin Sites on CNN, maybe twenty four hours before his blog was suspended. Though I don't remember the exact wording, it was quite literally something along the lines of "Yeah, I'm sitting here with Kurds in Northern Iraq, I'm just with a couple of guys with small arms, nothing major, there's all these Iraqi troops just over the hill, but they don't seem to be doing anything save the occasional random firing of mortars and machine guns..."
Maybe it was a Psyop. Maybe it wasn't. But poof went the blog one day later.
--Dan
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03-24-2003 05:29 AM ET (US)
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Ted Turner's CNN was nimble and quick with an eye to a global audience during Gulf War I. Eleven years later it has become a slow, lumbering dinosaur burdoned by lawyers and government attache's. Aaron Brown's "gee-whiz" fawning over technology also projects fourth estate American arrogance across the globe.
It reeks of rah-rah USA propaganda and Kevin's blog was a breath of truthful fresh air. That CNN would silence his first person voice -- and that the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post would find it newsworthy -- points to an inflection point.
Where's Ted Turner when we need him to trump the pinheads in his own organization?
Which Liberty are Americans and Brits dying for today? Freedom of speech or freedom to contract? Certain rights are inalienable, and a person's freedom to think and express herself should not be abridged regardless of contract.
CNN's position is nothing short of intellectual slavery.
Shame on them.
This is NOT Ted Turner's CNN.
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04-19-2004 10:37 PM ET (US)
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Mr Sites,
My husband and I were viewing MSNBC on April 18,2004 we noticed a picture in the right upper hand corner of the article Bremer: Iraqis unprepared to run security and we notice one of these men looked like our son Matt Watkins. Is there any way we can view this again, or do you know who the names are? We appriciate this very much!
Thank you,
Rick and Rita Watkins
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