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Ironic given his memo to CNN journalist selling them to not be mouthpieces for the Taliban and ensure that any reporting of death and destruction was "balanced"
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
Ironic given his memo to CNN journalist selling them to not be mouthpieces for the Taliban and ensure that any reporting of death and destruction was "balanced".
> "I want to make sure we're not used as a propaganda platform," Isaacson said in an interview yesterday.
> "We're entering a period in which there's a lot more reporting and video from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan," he said. "You want to make sure people understand that when they see civilian suffering there, it's in the context of a terrorist attack that caused enormous suffering in the United States."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/10/31/cnn-chief-orders-balance-in-war-news/0953cacf-77a4-4801-b99b-41a730e43ca7/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/10/31/...