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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (32923)	6/23/2002 2:07:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

CNN responds to pressure. This article doesn't mention it, but YES (the Israeli cable service) just added Fox to its package well ahead of schedule. Also, when Israeli papers talk about CNN, remember that they are discussing European CNN, considerably more pro-Palestinian than American CNN. American CNN showed the interview with Israeli terror victim Chen Keinan; European CNN showed an interview with the proud bomber's mother instead. CNN chief: No more airtime to bombers' families By MIRIAM SHAVIV CNN will no longer give airtime to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers "unless there is a compelling reason to do so," Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive and news gathering president, has told The Jerusalem Post. Jordan said he issued the directive last week. "We want to make sure there is no suggestion of moral equivalence between victims and perpetrators [of terrorism]," he explained yesterday. The change in policy was prompted by an incident three weeks ago, when CNN broadcast less than a minute of an extensive interview with the wounded Israeli woman who lost her mother and daughter in an attack in Petah Tikva and then spent several minutes talking about the plight of the suicide bomber's mother. To make sure this did not happen again, said Jordan, "we put safeguards in." Jordan was in Israel to meet with Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin, who last week called CNN's news coverage "evil, biased, and unbalanced." The satellite broadcaster YES recently added Fox News to their daily broadcast schedule to give their subscribers an alternative to CNN, and the cable companies are considering following suit. Some media commentators say that CNN is showing signs of change under pressure. This week, for example, correspondent Wolf Blitzer will present live from Israel a 5-part series called 'Victims of Terror,' which will examine the way Israeli civilians deal with the daily prospect of suicide bombings. cont. at jpost.com