Re: Lord Dearlove (head of MI5) nailed it:
Dearlove was the head of MI6, Britain's equivalent of our CIA.
MI5 is the domestic intelligence agency in Britain.
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CNN is now a totally discredited bucket shop. There was a segment on "On the Media" last night on NPR where the new President of CNN, Jonathan Klein, was asked about the inanity of CNN's editorial decisions.
onthemedia.org
Here's Klein defending CNN's decision to obsess over the "Runaway Bride" the day after the Dearlove bombshell was headline news in the UK:
BROOKE GLADSTONE: Well, let's talk about the other end of that gamut then. Let's talk about Monday, May 2nd. "CNN Daybreak." The rundown had Runaway Bride, "American Morning" - Runaway Bride Could Face Criminal Charges. "Live from CNN" - Runaway Bride back Home. "Crossfire" - Should Runaway Bride Faces Charges? Anderson Cooper, Paula Zahn, Larry King, Aaron Brown - all of them devoted at least part of their program to Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride, and Jonathan, I have to ask you - does this fit into the roll up your sleeves storytelling that you have in mind?
JONATHAN KLEIN: Well, sure. I mean the New York Times covered the runaway bride too, and I'm sure I heard a story about it on NPR.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: It was way buried in the New York Times.
JONATHAN KLEIN: Well, we can quibble over degree, but what you will see more and more of is CNN focusing its resources on any given day around a few big stories.....
CONCLUSION: CNN is nothing but a propaganda arm of the robber baron corporate elite today. |
