Scandal deepens around CNN's Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene - The Grayzone
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Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent. “In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed.” That’s how veteran CNN journalist Clarissa Ward described her foray into a Syrian prison on December 12, where she promptly claimed to have rescued a forgotten inmate after three months […]

Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It’s really sad that their level of self-importance is overshadowing what they supposed to represent. There were millions of valid things to report on, but no, they had to create fake sensational story.