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 […]
The level of integrity is at clownish level. Even some years ago there was still a veneer of respectability. ~10 years ago Brian Williams was suspended for ~4 months for lying about his reporting in the Iraq War. I’m not saying that was a minor thing but I think Ward’s case is far worse. This was a manufactured news segment.
CNN is in a pickle. I don’t think she, herself, manufactured that story. Why didn’t they pull the segment and give her a token punishment? My wild hunch is that she had permission from her bosses and at least a few execs surely knew of the bullshit reporting. In fact - it might be an exec’s own plan to juice ratings. Ratings are way down and the network is always greedy anyway.