Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
September 10, 2012
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:
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