CNN IS A CIA FRONT OF PROPAGANDA

The chilling reality of our time is that our biggest enemies are within.

CNN is one such enemy.

The New World Order crusaders know that it is better to control people and nations with the scientific application of fear and lies rather than the more unpredictable and expensive methodology of bullets and bombs.

So forty years ago, the CIA’s, “Operation Mockingbird,” went into full swing (see my website www.freewebs.com/operationmockingbird). The goal of the program was simply to control all mechanisms of opinion - the print news, the public opinion polls and the television news media. Their thinking was, if you control what people think, you’ve won the war before it has even begun.

And they have been frighteningly successful at achieving their goal - Since the 1950’s all major news and polling organizations have, to one degree or another, been absorbed into the sphere of control of the intelligence agencies. Now, the hard truth, which is simply too fantastic for most people to believe much less even comprehend in the first place is that the major news media is in actuality, mind controlling, opinion forming, population control mechanisms, and little else.

CNN is such a mind control machine.

CNN Being wholly a government propaganda machine, an organ of the CIA, and indeed as claimed by many in the right as well as left, extraordinarily influenced to the point of near subservience to a Zionist political agenda (more so than any discernible American agenda),

CNN is in charge of faking out the American people and tricking us into thinking there is support for the government, Bush and the war. CNN, Fox and the other government propaganda channels are clear warnings of what these New World Order types have in store for us - lies, war, death, slick 3D graphics, fraudulent polls, fraudulent elections, ominous theme music and dumb newsreaders.

CNN - the masters of the televisual lie.

And so now, the reptilian newsreaders with hairdos and tanning cream at CIA-CNN issue the latest fraudulent poll - 70% of the people support the president. This poll is a lie. It is a fake poll. The polling organizations, Time, Gallop, USA Today, CNN and all the rest of the CIA front companies posing as legitimate news organizations are all controlled by the CIA who themselves answer to the billionaire bankers and industrialists. The function of these fraudulent polls is to get people to conform with what they are tricked into believing that “everyone else” is conforming to. The polls are designed to create your attitudes, not reflect them. It’s called, “push polling,” and it works.

Not in a million years do 70% of the people support the president. People in the big cities have never met anyone who supports this jerk in the White House, yet there is this myth perpetrated by the media that there are these giant pockets of people (presumably hillbillies and rednecks) somewhere (presumably in the “heartland” of America) who are the ones who comprise this overwhelming 70% majority of Bush supporters. But when you look at the map, there just isn’t that many people in the, “hillbilly belt,” to comprise this mythical 70%. And so what does that mean? It means folks that you’re being lied to on a scale you never even imagined possible. That is the biggest scam and biggest secret of today - That there could be such an all encompassing hoax, pulled off right before our eyes - is real. But it is.

The American media is so fraudulent - the communist Chinese or Soviets never dreamed of forcing such preposterous lies down the throats of their people. No Soviet ministry of propaganda ever had the vast resources that the new lie masters have. The Red Chinese never had the prowess to so completely obliterate the truth in real time and retransmit it as utter lies to such a well conditioned and eagerly awaiting obedient sheep-like television viewing audience.

Each reporter knows full well the extent of truth that CNN senior editors will accept (very little) and so they don’t even cross that line into the realm of truth in the first place. They wouldn’t risk submiting a balanced and objective news story because by doing so their career would be finished. Each reporter knows full well, the tight, rigid parameters with which he is permitted to report the, “objective truth.” Each reporter knows that TV news is a game of lies - pure lies.

And the lies work! You really can control the vast majority of American “opinion” with massive transmission towers and cable systems transmitting 24 hour a day lies. That’s how it’s done. If the lie is transmitted over and over and over again, and if the application of fear is constant and conducted with the utmost of scientific precision - people can be transformed into sheep and herded into a corral of fear where they become well behaved, obedient sheep.

So turn off your TV news and forget about the major polls.

Get out in the streets and take them back. Confront these reptiles and sheep among us who are ruining this planet. And attack them.

It’s time to hit the streets and create some ruckus.

There needs to be a massive convergence of protesters at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. CNN will of course barely mention the protest, but their ambitious fellow liars in the other lie machines across the news industry would race to cover such a protest. Even though these other lie machines themselves are CIA controlled just like CNN they will still air the protest - demonstrating that in fact these LieNews organizations are equal parts CIA control, government propaganda, and ratings hungry back stabbing reptiles seething to make a profit for themselves, eager to stab their own kind in the back as long as they could gain one more square inch for their little corner of the big lie.

It is the responsibility of every young person and every seeker of truth and freedom and everyone who wishes for a better world for themselves and families to rise up and fight this REAL ENEMY WITHIN. The lie transmitters must be jammed and there are ways to do this. Jam CNN everywhere and anywhere with every method possible. Confront and disrupt anyway possible all CNN reporters, news trucks, satellite dishes or office buildings.

Steer the discourse towards topics never before even heard of.. New memes need to start surfacing in the worlds press and in the state houses of the worlds governments.
Shift the paradigm of rhetoric. Try a few of these memes on for size. A few headlines we need to start seeing:
“Foreign government seizes the assets of CNN and expels it’s journalists”
“Citizens urge their government to ban all CNN operations within their borders.”

Cut them off at the neck. Here’s a good rhetorical question to plant in foreign forums throughout the world:

“Since CNN is a CIA “front company” shouldn’t we urge our leaders to include a manditory warning label on all CNN/CIA newscasts warning us that CNN is a US government propaganda channel?”
What happened to our truth in advertizing laws?
“Europe jams all US government propaganda channels.”
“Boycotts organized against all advertisers on CNN.”
“Protesters disrupt, for the 20th day in a row, all activities of CNN and it’s advertisers.”
You get the idea.
All free nations or defenders of liberty must make efforts to knock out the capabilities which allow CNN and others like it to propagate the US government lies. Governments need to immediately mount massive public awareness programs warning their people that what they are really up against is nothing more than a massive lie machine and that if the world simply unites against it, and exposes it for what it is, they can knock out these machines of fraud and death quickly. The world must unite to cut them off where they breath. Boycott all advertisers on CNN. Protest and interfere with all activities of CNN and it’s advertisers. Deface their advertisements. And spit on every element of that machine of lies and death. Before they kill you all.

Since news is vital to our mechanisms of consent we need to draft laws assuring that our news companies have not been infiltrated or operated by the CIA. Laws must be enforced requiring an open and auditable mechanism of oversight for all major public opinion machines. (Gallop organization, Neilson ratings group, CNN, Fox and the other machines of lies.) The American attitude and psyche needs legal enforcement of the laws already in place to protect citizens from manipulation by the scientists of deception, whether from intelligence agencies who master such psychological operations or political parties who have adopted the techniques gained from these shadowy agencies to influence or steal elections.

The lie is the enemy.

And no news organization anywhere on earth represents this lie more fully and completely than CNN.
It is the responsibility of individuals to learn the nature of this struggle and organize to stop these fraudulent groups from spreading their terror to the peaceful nations of the earth.

And so it has come down to this: Americans are tricked, by the news media’s lies and fear, into doing the dirty work of oppressing the rest of the world using American bullets and bombs

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Media Monitor - How CNN Spreads Lies - September 6, 2005
AIM News Don Irvine Cliff Kincaid. How CNN Spreads Lies By Cliff Kincaid |
September 6, 2005. CNN should disclose all of the facts, not just a few. ...
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When the Coalition Kills and CNN Lies http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00253.htm CNN would not budge. They refused to acknowledge that such civilian deaths had occurred. Instead, they persisted in one of their banner headlines that "Iraqi civilians are being killed by Iraqis, not coalition". They didn't show footage. CNN's lies http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssn/cssn-list/2002/02/00008.html tly the 3,500 people at the Reclaim the Streets rally just didn't count. The 8,000-10,000+ people (including RTS) at the Another World Is Possible(AWIP) march also didn't count. The police storming the crowd without provacation isn't worth mentioning. The 1,000-2,000 Falun Gong protesters didn't matter! Only the ANSWER folk seemed to have been counted! Outrageous and ridiculous! The NY Times is slightly better. CNN lies http://www.centellas.org/miguel/archives/000247.html in my part of the world, cnn and other mainstream u.s media are considered (popularly) as giving a skewed and judgemental view of most issues... considering how cnn is basically a corporate organization, one shouldnt expect all so much... corporate journalism and journalists will not stake anything in the search for truth and other such baloney Pull CNN’s Plug! http://www.americandaily.com/article/1441 CNN continually lies to that audience who are no less captive than zoo chimpanzees. CNN admits that they lie about important things; matters that can and do impact on our national security. I think that CNN mostly lies about corrupt and abusive dictators and politicians in faraway lands, and sometimes right here at home. CNN tends to accept lies told by Hard-Left politicians, government officials and dictators like Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro. They say they do this to keep access, and to protect their reporters. 'Bert Kinzey Tells The "Truth" About CNN - BreakTheChain.org http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/kinzeycnn.html I explained how the news media, particularly CNN, inaccurately reported the war, misstating the facts, and in many cases deliberately telling outright lies. I dedicated an entire chapter to a dishonest CNN report about the B-1 bomber and evaluated its inaccuracies line by line. I illustrated that the report was full of lies, and these were about clearly established facts and not about someone's opinion. How CNN edited Blix's transcript (UPDATED)(a MUST READ ) http://danhon.com/ec/mtarchives/000411.shtml For comparison, here is the text of the report at the UN and Fox News. Those who are entertaining the notion that perhaps the BBC's version is the inaccurate one can rest easy that CNN's transcript also differs from that made available at the UN. For posterity, there's a cached copy of the CNN article here, in case it's updated over at CNN. THE CNN SEMANTIC STING The most trusted name in news, but not the most trustworthy! http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/cnn_sting.html Lesson learned: The viewing public must think for themselves. They must begin to ask the right questions and expect credible answers. Americans have the right to re-discover what true journalism is all about. It has been missing for so long that millions upon millions of Americans trust a pathetic organization like CNN to keep them informed. Lies, More Lies, and CNN's Lies http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2278  I believe that CNN’s actions have been as damaging to democracy and the free world as any of the vilest propaganda ever spread by Josef Goebbels, Josef Stalin, the Grand Mufti, Yasser Arafat, or Saddam Hussein. For twelve years CNN hid the truth, covered-up facts, and fabricated ridiculous moral-equivalency scenarios. Millions of people around the world have been influenced by these lies and deceptions. MOSAIC OF LIES Tracing the pattern of WMD lies back to the source http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j070903.html The author of the Post piece was silent on the question of which foreign government. However, CNN was quick to cite government officials who said: "They got the documents from the intelligence service of another country, which was not Britain and was not Israel, which they will not name." That was another lie. 911: Did CNN Air Fake Video? (A relatively light aluminum plane could not pass through a steel building with no pieces breaking off.)   THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF CNN LIES, FALSE NEWS STORIES, AND PROPAGANDA.    We urge conservatives to look beyond the conservative media (NATIONAL REVIEW, WASHINGTON TIMES, HUMAN EVENTS, WALL STREET JOURNAL op-ed(the worst of all), FOX NEWS and Washington Think Tanks, most of which are dominated by the Neo-conservatives, the War Party, and Empire wanters.   Following are links to many sources of news not usually reported in Conservative media.  We refer you to Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting for updates on Middle East news distortions. Note particularly that American TV usually does not show the mangled bodies if caused by U.S. actions, which most of the rest of the world's TV does show. Anyone seeing foreign TV broadcasts gets another view.  U.S. networks are afraid to lose audience if they show pictures too critical of suffering caused by U.S. policies.  See about Fox News on war below 2/26/05  Russian Government Treads on Freedom unpopularity of U.S. gives Putin room to curtail freedoms, e.g. appointing state governors 12/5/04  Different Images of War (see links in report) marines in Falluja video and weblog IRAQ IN PICTURES with images not shown on American big media--How a weblog offsets government presentation see Iraq in Pictures 11/12/04 U.S. Media and Propaganda War -- innocuous descriptions of phosphorous or cluster bombs, careful words of U.S. commanders 11/11/04 WALL STREET JOURNAL's one sided Editorial Slant for Wars now also infects news pages--11/1 Report on Guantanamo "trials" makes light of hearings using secret evidence accused can't know, massive violations of Geneva Convention and even Nuremburg precendents, etc.  About same trials NY TIMES reported gross violations and most prisoners inconsequential--WSJ makes them all appear as criminals.  Federal Judge ruled that trials violated Supreme Court Ruling 9/01/04  Hollinger Investigation of Conrad Black and Richard Perle-- Black bought London Daily Telegraph, Jerusalem Post, Chicago Sun Times--turned them into propaganda promotors for Sharon-Likud--report shows how looted shareholders.   Details of Findings & AP Report 8/12/04  Washington Post on its WMD Coverage -- why questions were downplayed 8/03/04   CNN Following Fox   Fox viewers most dis-informed on Convention - Fox viewers most likely to believe lies about Iraq-Al Qaeda connections 7/3/04  Al Jazeera: Out-Foxing Fox  comparing U.S. to Israel, Al Jazeera appeals to Arabs just like Fox appeals to Americans 6/29/04  Media Disputes Movie Fahrenheit 9/11 6/18/04  Washington Times owners try to make paper more supportive of internationalist views 6/09/04  Homeland Security Slaps Visa Restrictions on Foreign Journalists  strip searches land handcuffs for Australians, English 5/28/04  NY Times and Nat. Public Radio Iraq Reports NYT Judith Miller as promoter of war using Chalabi as main source --editors apologized (very late) 5/26/04  NY Times Analyzes its news before Iraq war says it gave credance to unproven charges about Saddam, didn't expose past lies in prominent news stories 5/19/04  Reuters Correspondents Beaten and Tortured by American Elite Troops 5/11/04 Papers Run 'Attack Dogs' Prison Photo, But Not on Front Page Editor and Publisher 5/9/04  FOX NEWS SUNDAY   ran a long list about how Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam.  Typical of their distortions, Fox's list ignored the fact that Iraq had been blockaded by America for some 11 years.   For example, Fox said that now Iraqis had medicines and cell phones.  We remember how even chlorine to purify water and school child pencils used to be forbidden imports.  See our Sanctions page for data on this. 5/6/04  A leading conservative comments to our editor on best TV News, "I'm a devoted fan of MSNBC.  More than any other TV channel, they are hardhitting and not in anyone's camp, letting the sh-t fall where it may.  CNN is boring.   And Fox News is a 24-hour Bush reelection commercial.  In an era of 24-hour news we no longer have network signoffs, but if Fox had one, the only appropriate one would be, "I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message." 5/5/04  NATIONAL REVIEW comes out for pure imperialism -- kill and beat enough of them and then Iraqis will become subservient to America 4/22/04 NATIONAL REVIEW recants some of its mistakes, stupidities, distortions  editorial staff of neocons and wantabe ex British imperialists 4/19/04 Nervous U.S. soldiers kill many journalists 90 Degree heat, 40 kilos of weaponry, and tight body armour    Search Google -killing journalists 3/8/04  Conrad Black, Sharon propagandist, out at DAILY TELEGRAPH  made paper distort news into favoring Likud 2/20/04  Washington Post Ombudsman details coverage of Lies 2/16/04 "We Were Not All Wrong" David Kay Statement --Scott Ritter details and quotes those who were right before the war including UN inspectors 1/20/04  Clear Channel Gags Anti-Empire Journalists -- largest network of radio stations-who says liberals control media? 1/3/04  Growing Harassment of Journalists in Iraq   Soldiers Destroy Unwanted Pictures, threaten newspersons, Pentagon stonewalling 11/23  PIPA (at Univ. of Maryland) Finds Fox TV Viewers Most Uninformed   -- more believe the lies         AND 12/30  Detailing of lies, half truths and distortions on Fox News  10/24  Press Under-reporting on Wounded in Iraq 10/15  Most Ignorant Americans Get Their Info from Fox News - statistics 8/29    Scarce Reporting about thousand (s?) wounded  TV does not want to appear disloyal and Americans don't like to see victims 7/31/03   U.S. Threatens Al-Jazeera   -- ever since bombing their office in Afghanistan and Iraq 6/30/03   Israel Boycots BBC News   for TV program 6/10/03   Devine Answers NATIONAL REVIEW --since Neo-con takeover little concern for constitutional freedoms 6/10/03   Lies About French Giving Visas to Escaping Iraqi Leaders put out by Bill Gertz at Washington Times-spread all over conservative media 6/10/03  How Pentacons (Pentagon Neocons) fed Disinformation to New York Times 5/02/03  Interesting Analysis of TV War coverage --media bosses admit move from news to propaganda Some words about lies on FOX TV--  NEW FOX LIES REPORT http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html very detailed on various news and talk show reports FOX News filled the airwaves on Saturday 3/22, showing Iraqi POWs, up close and looking humiliated. Military handlers guided the camera crew through the groups of POWs. This story was shown at least 5 times on Saturday on Fox. Geneva Convention article 13 forbids the displaying of POWs for the purposes of "public curiosity," exactly what Fox News did on Saturday. One wonders whether there will be equal prosecution of this violation for both sides, that is Washington's protests about the showing of U.S. prisoners of war. All morning (3/22), Fox News has been parading commentators who are outraged by this "war crime."  Centcom has issued a statement condemning the actions of al-Jazeera TV for showing the footage of American POWs. One after another, the Fox News anchors and correspondents are talking about how upset they are and how the US would never do such a thing, ignoring the fact that they did exactly the same thing 24 hours earlier.   All during the bombing of Iraq Fox reported that coalition forces (meaning U.S.) were "softening up" Iraqi military units and rarely showed Iraqi dead to make it all look like few people were actually killed.   A U.S. General is quoted, "'We're Not softening them up, We're killing them' (Wash. Post 4/6/03)  See also Pentacons (Pentagon Neocons) Favor Fox 4/16     Ha'aretz on Fox News --Hypocrisy, Lies, Disinformation 4/29/03  How Most Media Played up the Lies   and played down the refutations 4/17/03  Accusations of Photo editing in British paper on Statue Pull down --technical duplications plus lots of reports on little known news about Iraq 4/9/03   Pentagon Killing Journalists? - Al-Jazeera in Kabul too and surprise missile killed Serb TV staff --can't all be unintentional---------------- "Al-Jazeera's correspondent was killed in an attack on the organisation's office in Baghdad – even though one of his colleagues at the Central Command office in Doha gave the Pentagon the co-ordinates of their Baghdad building and received a promise it would not be attacked. The US also attacked al-Jazeera's office in Kabul in 2001 and destroyed it with a cruise missile – an event for which it provided neither explanation nor apology. During the Afghanistan bombardment, the Kabul office was broadcasting Osama bin Laden tapes around the world. This time, the Baghdad office was providing the most devastating account of Iraqi civilian casualties in the war to a vast Arab audience – thus fuelling the anti-American sentiments that the United States says it cannot understand. A few hours later, an M1A1 Abrams tank on the Jumhuriya Bridge aimed at a room in the Palestine Hotel and fired a single round that killed two cameramen and wounded four other Reuters staff. The Americans said nothing until it became known that journalists from France 3 television had filmed the tank firing. General Buford Blount of the 3rd Infantry Division claimed the tank had come under sniper fire and had fired at the source of the shooting, which then stopped. But the French cameramen started filming minutes before the tank fired at the hotel and there was silence on the soundtrack."   http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=397647 4/8    Charley Reese on Cable News Coverage and Embedded Reporters A study of more than 40 hours of coverage on the broadcast and cable networks early in the war "found that about half the reports from embedded journalists showed combat action, but not a single story depicted people hit by weapons." AMERICAN JOURNALISM REVIEW, May, 2003. 4/6      A report on government control of Media during the First Iraq War 3/31    "After the first Gulf War of 1991, it took five years for some journalists in the West to admit that they had bought into the war propaganda and told 'American lies'. It wasn't until 1995 that Guardian journalist Maggie O'Kane admitted that during the Gulf War 'we, the media, were harnessed like beach donkeys and led through the sand to see what the British and US military wanted us to see' (13). Today, suspicion about American and British claims makes the front pages within 24 hours."  Propaganda Defensive by Brendan O'Neill 3/31/03       Al-Jazeera TV Reports Are Different  What the rest of the world sees 3/28/03      Pro-war Rallies promoted by pro-Bush Radio Network -New, concentratied ownership of radio all over U.S.-- A reader writes us, "I've been telling you... this is the propaganda machine--not just for pro-war elements but for the Israeli government. Try calling Limbaugh or one of their columnists with a criticism of the Israeli government and they simply hang up on you..." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/business/media/31RADI.html 3/27/03       BBC Reports --available in U.S. over National Public Radio, XM Satellite Radio, and on some cable networks 3/24/03        Conservatives and Neo-cons Now Fighting 3/22/03      U.S. TV Won't Show much of Iraqi Wounded --YELLOW TIMES.org ---common report of those who see European TV is that pictures of Palestinian and Afghanistan bodies not shown to Americans  - 3/18/03     How WEEKLY STANDARD promotes wars, promoted conflicts with Serbia, China, Palestine, Iraq 3/15/03    How World Media Differs from U.S. covering wars 3/13/03    Unmentionables Being Discussed  open discourse of Israeli Lobby   also by Reuters  Neo-cons exposed 02/03/03    Journalists in Danger in Palestine 11/21   Administration prepares Censorship for War--only Powell open with media 11/17   Voice of America credibility and government radios compared 10/16   Iraqi Children Deaths --updating on reports 10/3 Drudge Censors Wanniski   Example of Conservative hunger and rush for war 9/19  Rush Limbaugh Radio. He used to do his homework, but is now a propagandist for war with ignorance or lies.   Today he argued that the United Nations approved attacks on Serbia becuse they were "white" people implying that the UN favors the dark skinned. (This a lie because the attack on Serbia was not approved by the UN--Washington used NATO precisely because it could not get UN approval for its war on Serbia).  Then he argued that Iraqis consider themselves among the dark skinned.  His program is one mass of uninformed or lieing propaganda.  Then he cuts off or denies callers who disagree with him. 8/27  Washington's Pro-war Foundations Influence Media 8/27  Fox News, the War Network   --wars build ratings and make money 8/25  CNN chief claims US media 'censored' war 8/7  O'Reilly (and others such as Sen. Inhofe) on Fox TV --"Saddam expelled the UN Weapons Inspectors"--not true, the UN withdrew them at U.S. request so U.S. could start bombing without risking killing them. 7/13  Israelis kill Palestinian Journalist  --Army often fires on journalists 5/29  War News Censorship on 9/11 & Afghan War 5/20   Arab Incompetence at Explaining Palestinian Case  Arabs don't understand how to "sell" their case to Americans---feudal understanding of government, think of President as a king or emperor--their problem and ours 4/3  Pro (and Anti) Zionist writers listed 3/21 Israeli TV reports censored footage from West Bank  breaks censorship--Israel has a free press 2/20  Very Little Media Cover on Anti-Zionist Jews War Coverage Made in Washington --by Charley Reese, so few victims, so little misery, bombs without blood Afghan Civilian Deaths U.S. Bombs al-Jazeera office in Kabul as Taliban leaves  (to limit TV news?) 12/5  Fox TV Propagandizes the War   no pretense for fair news --NY Times 11/29  Rabid columnists push Bush for total destruction-e.g. Fox O'Reilly and George Will Analyzed  so rabid for more war, becomes Sharon Flack 11/11  Arab News Coverage on Afghanistan --NY TIMES report--always claim U.S. hypocrisy about Israel --equate terrorisms   10/27  Al-Jazeera   Arab World's CNN, rare source of accurate news (by satellite and re-broadcasts)  in lands of kings and dictators 10/24  Washington Unable to Control War News   by Eric Margolis --First Time for Arabs 9/26 Israeli Leaders First Reactions to Bombing 7/12 Detailing lies from an AP report on Iraq--how the propaganda works How American Big Media Lies, Distorts and Covers-up Middle East News --Chicago Tribune op-ed 6-19 Foreign Journalists in Israel --pressures on reporting Media Lies --the Biggest one of all--Palestine--by Norman Solomon Big Media Builds up Kagan/Kristol as Conservative Spokesmen for War and Empire Independent (London) by Robert Fisk --How and Why journalists lie about Middle East--If Palestinians were South Africans Iraq Lie --that Saddam could rebuild Iraq's electricity, sanitation, agriculture if he cared for his people--Truth is that Washington blockaded everything except food and medicine until last November when Europeans shamed it into changing.  See New York Times report (killing of kids from US destruction of sanitation/water/irrigation now recognized-see link) Big TV Distortions--ABC,NBC,CBS lie about legal status of occupied territories (but didn't have trouble calling Kuwait "occupied" by Iraq) CNN Lies about shooting of own Reporter --only Israeli press tells truths,  by Robert Fisk Har'retz Daily --Israeli Newpaper on Palestinian Conditions--rarely reported in American newspapers--truth is published in free Isreal "Oddly, you can now learn more from the Israeli press than the American media. The brutality of Israeli soldiers is fully covered in Ha'aretz..... Four years ago, a former Israeli soldier described in an Israeli newspaper how his men had looted a village in southern Lebanon; when the piece was reprinted in The New York Times, the looting episode was censored out of the text. " by Robert Fisk, INDEPENDENT WASHINGTON TIMES --Lately, since the settlement of the Kosovo war, WT has returned to its heavy support for interventionism overseas.  Almost daily, before the WTC bombing, it ran stories to inflame conservatives for conflict.  Its editorial and op-ed pages were filled with denunciations of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, favoring the Israeli settlements, and promoting China as a great threat to America.   Typical of its scare tactics was the report about a new Pentagon study on China.   "CHINA IS PREPARING FOR HIGH-TECH WAR WITH U.S.,"  ran its front page story about a new Pentagon study.  The same day, 6/23/00, the NEW YORK TIMES headline about the same report was, “PENTAGON SEES CHINA FORCES AS NO FORESEEABLE THREAT TO U.S."  The actual report explained, "China's research and training efforts are largely defensive measures "centered on countering" American technology used in the Iraq and Kosovo wars."   Now with Afghanistan it is calling for war with Iraq and running stories to support new war.     But many conservatives only hear a war message. Many are not getting a fair picture, because Washington thrives on creating conflict and the fear of conflict. "War is the Health of the State," said old libertarian, Randoph Bourne. Insight-Har'retz Report on Israeli Wiretaps --Clinton told Monica that foreign embassy might be listening NEW YORK TIMES on Iraq Misery & Supposed Intransigence NEW REPUBLIC's Neo-Trash Opposing US Bombing Doesn't Mean "Hating America"--Raimondo Answers Neo-Con Attack Washington Post and NATO War Crimes Canadian Report The Hoax Begotten War--Accuracy in Media details the media lies to start NATO/US Kosovo war- AIM has very many reports with details about distortions in media coverage, especially now about the body counts and accused atrocities in Kosovo.--lots of U.S. media distortion Analysis of Washington Post Iraq Coverage (thru 3/6/00)-- news reports ok, editorial page lies and lies How CNN Helped Feed the War --War is good for ratings Wash. Post Distorts Coverage of NATO War Crimes Indictments by F.A.I.R. Demonizing Serbs by Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media --Lies about Croatian expulsions of Serbs, Croatians started the chaos  (See Below) FAIR's great analysis of US Big Media support for Big Bombing --NIGHTLINE terrible                              BBC broadcasts report of NATO lies www.truthinmedia.org      lots of background information "warture" --Washington's way of torture for small nations' peoples USA TODAY on Lies About the War REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS ( www.rsf.fr) REPORTS ON NATO Press War Distortions Ted Turner Pays Reporter for favorable UN Story. Let's see if the media covers this story as extensively as they have stories of Republicans who write favorable pieces about President Bush. **Sits back and waits for the outrage. Quote: NPR Criticizes Own Reporter - UN Journalist Took Money from Ted Turner March 3, 2005 WASHINGTON -- In response to criticism from Accuracy in Media (AIM), taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that its U.N. correspondent, Linda Fasulo, acted inappropriately in accepting money from Ted Turner to write a pro-U.N. book. NPR spokesman David Umansky says that "no reporter will be able to accept similar subsidies in the future," the network reported. NPR noted that "critics say the deal proves she's too cozy with the UN." Fasulo also covers the U.N. for NBC News and MSNBC. AIM editor Cliff Kincaid said that a total of $26,000 from pro-U.N. sources went to Fasulo, a reporter who is supposed to objectively cover the U.N., in "a conflict of interest that calls into question her coverage of U.N. issues." The NPR News Code of Ethics and Practices requires that its reporters avoid "actual and apparent conflicts of interest or engaging in outside activities, public comment or writing that calls into question our ability to report fairly on a subject." In Fasulo's case, she was reporting on the U.N. for NPR as she was accepting money from Ted Turner's U.N. Foundation to do her pro-U.N. book. During a February 8 appearance on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor Kincaid said, "The problem is that any news organization that is expected to cover the United Nations objectively should not have a U.N. correspondent taking money…" Kincaid continued, "the acknowledgement section of the book only says that she acknowledges generous financial support from the U.N. Foundation set-up by Turner and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. No amounts were given." He continued, "When The New York Sun followed up on [AIM's] original report by asking how much money she actually got, she didn't want to say."

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             CNN = “Contains No News”

1 Hour of CNN Yields Less Than 5 Minutes of News
A Detailed Analysis by TvNewsLies.org
08-September-2003

What on earth is happening in this country? The most recent polls reveal that 69% of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein and Iraq were involved in the terror attacks of 9/11! How could this totally erroneous idea be shared by a majority of the public? Any informed individual would have known that this is absolutely untrue – that no connection between Iraq and 9/11 has ever been substantiated. Are Americans simply not listening to the news? No way.  They really believe they are getting information they can rely on from the media. The poll is just one example of the complete failure of the American television news networks to accurately inform the public.

The television news networks are the primary sources of information about domestic and international events for most Americans. The networks have had two years to accurately inform the public about the most important terror event in the lives of this generation of Americans, yet they failed miserably in their responsibility to do so. The question, of course, has to be raised: “How can this have happened?” While the answer is more complex than brevity would allow, one thing has become painfully apparent: the news most vital to Americans about their nation and the world is simply not being reported by American television networks.

There are three American television networks that purport to be national news networks.  However, a closer look reveals something as bizarre as it is disturbing. On the “news” networks, what is missing is NEWS!

After months of observation, TVNL has discovered that after 6 minutes into any news broadcast on these networks, no more news is reported for the hour. What viewers get instead is biased speculation, in depth tabloid stories (a la the Star or the National Inquirer), stories of local or regional interest, and a great deal of infomercial content.

To illustrate this point, TVNL taped and analyzed a one hour CNN news program aired on September 5^th, 2003 at 7:00 PM EST, during the prime time evening news hour.

We categorized the content of the broadcast based on expected coverage by a “national” newscast. Local news broadcasts would understandably have different responsibilities to inform their viewers about regional or local events. We expect a national news network to report stories that affect the nation and the world. While we understand that a percentage of every broadcast may be devoted to content other than the straight forward reporting of vital news events, we do expect more than 5 minutes of news per hour.

The program content has been broken down into the following categories: 

• News – Reporting of recent events that affect the nation or the world, sans opinion or bias. This excludes conjecture or speculation and it excludes important news that may be reported as headline but should be detailed on a regional or local broadcast..
• Headlines – Preview of upcoming stories. (Not considered news)
• Talk Show – Speculation or discussion. This is where reporters, anchors or so called experts are called upon to voice their opinions on an issue. This is not reporting an event; it is offering opinions about the event.
• Regional News – News events of limited relevance that belong on local news networks. This may include important issues that affect a region rather than the nation.
• Tabloid News – Sensational stories that have no impact on the nation and are being reported to ensure high ratings or to distract viewers from more important issues. These are the stories that we would only find in the National Inquirer several years ago.
• Infomercials – Non-news. These are segments promoting commercial ventures. In other words this is advertising dressed up as news.
• Commercial break. This accounts for time spent airing paid advertisements.

NOTE: Many stories technically fall into more than one category, but for the sake of clarity we will only designate one category per item. Example: A news item covering the Laci/Scott Peterson case can be classified as both Regional and Tabloid News. EXCEPTION: If a segment of the story is actual news, and the rest can be classified as SPECULATION, the allocated time will be divided between each appropriate category.

This is a summary of our findings: (A detailed breakdown can be found below)

BROADCAST: CNN Live from the headlines - September 5th - 7PM EST  Anchor - Anderson Cooper

Statistics:

Category with the least allotted time: Real News
Category with the most allotted of time: Tabloid Stories
Longest single uninterrupted segment: Box office releases (new movie previews/Infomercial category)

Events that took place on the day of analyzed broadcast that were not deemed newsworthy by CNN:

• Meacher sparks fury over claims on September 11 and Iraq war – This came out Friday night. - Bush accused of allowing 9/11 to take place. US response on 9/11 questioned in detail.
• White House Slams Door on U.N. Inspections in Iraq
• Europe's faith in US 'crumbles'
• US to miss key deadline for chemical weapons destruction
• The British army has issued a public apology for brutally beating Iraqi civilians in the town of Majar al Kabir, 120 miles north of Basra.
• First On Senate's Agenda - Bush's Plan To Kill Overtime
• U.S. Economy: August Job Losses Reach 93,000, Most Since March
• 'Big Government' Getting Bigger Under Bush
• The Arcata City Council's Bush-Cheney impeachment resolution - local, relevant and crucial

Vital ongoing issues not discussed or mentioned on CNN:

• Voting machine problems - Major voter fraud issues brewing.
• Blair on the hot seat - Tony Blair is coming under daily fire for misleading (lying to) the public about the threat Saddam/Iraq posed to the world.
• Cuts to vets and active soldiers - Bush/PNAC and the GOP are cutting funding for veterans, cutting battle pay for active soldiers and fighting an increase in the death benefit for dying while on the battlefield. The Democrats are fighting for all of these issues, but CNN never mentions this.
• Dick Cheney’s secret energy policy meeting notes yielded Iraqi oil maps, in essence establishing motive for invading Iraq.
• Dick Cheney’s former company, Halliburton, has been awarded billions in contracts to rebuild Iraq without having to take part in the competitive bidding process.
• The Bush/PNAC White House has manipulated scientific reports, halted environmental studies and has edited out vital finding in scientific studies in order to support their agenda.

Most notable missing topics:

• Virtually no mention about any international issues
• No mention on what our Congress is doing these days.

Of course there are many more issues being ignored by the TV news networks but there is enough here to fill in a few more minutes of CNN’s broadcast day.

What follows is the breakdown of the typical CNN prime time news hour taped by TVNL: Numbers represent minutes.

BROADCAST: CNN Live from the Headlines - September 5th, 2003 - 7PM EST – Anchor - Anderson Cooper 

Conclusion: America does not have a national TV news network. If it were not for the Internet, and some of the great independent media organizations, our ignorance might have been irreparable at this point. Michael Powell is trying to pass new laws that will make this situation worse by relaxing the already soft media ownership regulations. We must not allow this to happen.

Our enemy is not terror, it is not Islam, it is not the radical suicide bomber, it is the threat to our society that ignorance poses to our nation. America has become a nation of misinformed radical flag wavers who do not even understand what they are supporting when they flaunt their patriotism. We are taught that democracy means that we all get to sing the national anthem before every sports even but we do not realize that without a free press we have no democracy.

When you see a flag on the lapel of a newscaster it is a clear symbol of bias reporting. News commentators are being paid to be journalists, not ersatz patriots. They are supposed to report the news and tell the truth regardless of whether or not it supports the agenda or the image of the government. They are not paid to support our troops, our president or to promote the American image. Contrary to what the networks are telling you our government is not always right, it is not always just, it is not always honest and it does not always act in our best interest. The news networks should not make it their mission to make us believe that all is wonderful if it comes in red white and blue.

We must preserve democracy. We must call an end to propaganda masquerading as news. We must protect our democracy by guaranteeing that we have access to the truth. We must have a free press.

TvNewsLies CNN LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE  - DJ BLAZE  Helping to bring the truth to the people

Sgt. Keith Plancich, a former Green Beret involved in a 1970 U.S. military operation in Laos called "Operation Tailwind," sued CNN on August 6, 1998, claiming the news network defamed him in a broadcast about Tailwind that was ultimately retracted.

CNN faced severe scrutiny after it broadcast its June 7, 1998 premiere of the "Newsstand: CNN & Time" program, which featured a report entitled, "Valley of Death." The CNN report, also reported that week in Time magazine using CNN's reporting, was ultimately found to be unsubstantiated in a lengthy report prepared by First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. CNN and Time retracted their reports and apologized for their reporting.

Two CNN producers who prepared the report left CNN after the report was retracted (April Oliver was fired, Jack Smith resigned). CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, who was named in Plancich's suit as an individual defendant, reported the story on-air but was not fired by CNN due to his limited involvement with the actual reporting of the piece.

CNN has already reached a settlement with Adm. Thomas Moorer, a major source in the story.

Plancich claims that CNN seriously defamed him when they misrepresented actions taken by U.S. troops involved in Tailwind and, in effect, accused him of war crimes, including murder and violations of the Geneva Convention. In addition to CNN and Arnett, he named Time magazine and Time Warner, the parent company of both Time and CNN, as defendants. Time Warner is also part owner of Court TV.

"They knew they were wrong about the story, but they went ahead anyway," said Plancich in a statement. "I fought for our system of justice, now we will see how well it works."

KEITH E. PLANCICH,
Plaintiff,

vs.

CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC.,
a Georgia corporation,
TIME, INC., a New York
corporation, TIME WARNER,INC.,
a New York corporation,
and PETER ARNETT, individually,
Defendants.

KEITH E. PLANCICH, Plaintiff, sues defendants, CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., a Georgia corporation, TIME, INC., a New York corporation, TIME WARNER, INC., a New York corporation, and PETER ARNETT, individually, and alleges as follows:

1.Jurisdiction of this action is provided by 28 USC §1332;

2. The matter and controversy in each count exceeds the sum of $75,000, exclusive of interest and costs;

3. Plaintiff, former Green Beret, Sergeant KEITH E. PLANCICH, (hereinafter referred to as "SGT. PLANCICH" is a resident of Monroe County, Florida, and is otherwise sui juris;

4. Defendant, CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., (hereinafter referred to as "CNN") is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Georgia, and is authorized to do business in the State of Florida. CNN is in the business of disseminating news of regional, national, and international interest by television to all jurisdictions within the United States of America and internationally;

5. Defendant, TIME, INC., (hereinafter referred to as "TIME") is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York. TIME is in the business of publishing a weekly magazine by the same name containing news of regional, national, and international interest, and such publications are distributed to every jurisdiction within the United States and internationally;

6 . Defendant, TIME WARNER, INC., (hereinafter referred to as "TIME WARNER") is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, and is authorized to do business in the State of Florida. TIME WARNER is the owner and parent company for both TIME and CNN. TIME WARNER exercises supervisory control over the dissemination of news by TIME and CNN, and further controls the publication of news stories by other subsidiary companies and corporations around the world;

7 . Defendant, PETER ARNETT, (hereinafter referred to as "ARNETT"), is an employee of CNN and TIME and he resides in the State of Virginia, and is otherwise sui juris;

8. At the time of the events hereinafter set forth, ARNETT was at all times acting within the course and scope of his employment, and in furtherance of the affairs of his employers, CNN and TIME. CNN and TIME are and were the apparent or ostensible agents of TIME WARNER. At all times relevant to the events hereinafter described, ARNETT was expressly authorized by CNN, TIME, and TIME WARNER to act on their behalf and he was acting with the knowledge, consent, and approval of CNN, TIME, and TIME WARNER;

9.In September, 1970, the Plaintiff, SGT. KEITH E. PLANCICH, was a sergeant in the Fifth Special Forces, Company B Green Berets, stationed in Viet Nam, Southeast Asia;

10.On or about the dates of September llth through the 14th, 1970, SGT. PLANCICH took part in a United States military operation which was code named "Operation Tailwind". This military operation took place in the country of LAOS, Southeast Asia;

11. The military objective of "Operation Tailwind " was to disrupt North Vietnamese and Viet Cong supply lines, divert enemy attention from a contemporaneous military action taking place elsewhere, and to gather military intelligence;

12.SGT. PLANCICH was wounded in action during the military operation, and was awarded the Silver Star for his gallantry in action;

13. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations contained in Paragraphs One through Twelve, as if set forth in their entirety herein;

14. SGT. PLANCICH was and is a person of good name, credit and reputation and enjoyed the esteem and good opinion of his neighbors and others who have known him;

15. At some point prior to June, 1998, CNN and TIME started publicizing a new television news program that was to make its debut on June 7, 1998. On June 7, 1998, the Defendants, CNN, TIME, TIME WARNER, and ARNETT (hereinafter referred to as "Defendants") aired a television broadcast, both nationally and internationally, called "NEWSSTAND", in which one story-was entitled "Valley of Death". A copy of the transcript of a portion of the "NEWSSTAND" broadcast is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit "A". During this broadcast, the following false, scandalous, and defamatory statements were made concerning SGT. PLANCICH:

A.Valley of Death: the U.S. military and a top-secret target. American defectors.

B.Now CNN & TIME, after an eight month investigation report that the United States military used lethal nerve gas during the Vietnam War.

C. Now, Peter Arnett has the story of Operation Tailwind: a raid into Laos, which according to military officials with knowledge of the mission contained two top secrets: dropping nerve gas on a mission to kill American defectors.

D.Pictures of Tailwind. A black operation so secret even those who carried it out did not know all the details.

E.Nineteen seventy: Van Buskirk was a platoon leader on Tailwind with orders to kill everything in sight, including American defectors.

F. SOG commandos carried out black operations against unusual targets using unusual weapons. They fought with no rules, were pledged to secrecy, everything was deniable. Both McCarley and Van Buskirk told CNN they were promised anything in the U.S. arsenal to complete _Tailwind's mission; anything except nuclear weapons. The arsenal included a special weapon known as sleeping gas.

G. NEWSSTAND: CNN & TIME contacted over 200 people, from corporals to generals, including dozens who fought or flew in the Tailwind mission. According to military officials with knowledge of the mission, Tailwind held two of the U.S. military's top secrets. The first: sleeping gas was indeed nerve gas -- deadly sarin, what the U.S. military calls GB. These military sources told CNN that during Tailwind, nerve gas was dropped on a village base camp believed to hold American defectors,and then again to get the SOG team out, the first confirmed use of nerve gas in combat by the U.S. military. The second secret: the hunting and killing of American defectors was a high priority on SOG missions, including Tailwind.

H. From this position, his [Graves] Recon team spotted several Americans: round eyes, either POW's or defectors.

I. Nevertheless, McCarley said he equipped all of his men with special gas masks, called M-17's, designed to protect against lethal gas. The SOG,commandos were also issued atropine, a nerve gas anecdote. McCarley also suggested lethal gas was always an option.

J. Oliver asked Admiral Moorer about a special weapon the military called CBU-15, a cluster bomb unit that was filled with GB, sarin nerve gas. Moorer confirmed that nerve gas was used in Tailwind.

K. Admiral Moorer acknowledged in an off-camera interview that Tailwind's target was, indeed, defectors. While he would give no firm estimate, Moorer indicated scores of U.S. military had defected during the war. Other senior military officials also confirm that Tailwind's objective was a group of defectors collaborating with the enemy.

L. In a moment, we'll return to Peter Arnett's report on Operation Tailwind. How it began and, according to our sources, how nerve gas was used and how American defectors were targeted.

M. A top secret effort, "Operation Tailwind," was launched, sources say, to find and kill those defectors by virtually any means necessary.

N. September 11, 1970, with long shadows, round eyes, pinpointed the hatchet force team of 16 Americans leading about 140 Montagnard mercenaries departed from a launch site at Dak To, South Vietnam, flying about 60 miles deep into Laos.

0. It took three days to get near the village base camp where a man believed to be defector had been spotted... According to military officials, during the evening, American planes gassed the camp with deadly sarin nerve gas, dropping the special weapon, CBU15.

P. Firing automatic weapons and tossing grenades into the hooches, the commandos met. little resistance. Suddenly, Van Buskirk spotted two Caucasians, one went down a spider hole, the second ran toward it.

Q. Van Buskirk held his fire and raced the man to the spider hole, tried to grab him, but missed. The man slid into the hole. Van Buskirk shouted ... Convinced they were defectors, Van Buskirk threw white phosphorus grenade down the hole. He believed both men were killed instantly. The commandos wiped out the camp in approximately 10 minutes.

R. The count was 90 some, up to 100.

S. Including women and children, the Montagnard fighters reported this to Hagen and Van Buskirk.

T. Bodies that look like Americans. Dozen, 15, maybe 20.

U. According to several commandos, the bodies thought to be American defectors were not identified, and no bodies were brought out. Later, Van Buskirk says a SOG colonel in keeping with SOG's code of deniability, ordered him delete ' his description of killing two American defectors from his after action report.

V. But several formal senior military officials have confirmed to CNN that the village and the defectors were Tailwind's objective.

W. As many as 60 Montagnards were killed, nearly all the rest wounded. Hagen has no doubts about what the gas was.

X. But chemical experts CNN consulted said tear gas is not consistent with the enemy symptoms observed by the SOG team, vomiting, convulsing, and falling quickly to the ground unconscious.

Y. Admiral Moorer had told CNN that GB, sarin nerve gas was, quote, "by and large available for many res ' cue attempts." He also told CNN, quote, "this is a much bigger operation than you realize. " A-1 sky raid pilots, other SOG veterans and former senior military officials all tell of GB being dropped on more than 20 missions in Laos and North Vietnam. Questions remain, exactly how many times has the U.S. military secretly used nerve gas? On Tailwind, just who were the defectors killed? Are military officials sure no POW's were killed? Just how many defectors were there in Laos? And ultimately, who authorized the operation? Admiral Moorer said the Nixon White House national security team had to approve nerve gas use. He also said that the CIA had partial responsibility for Tailwind. Former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said that while he had no recollection of GB sarin nerve gas being used, quote, "I do not dispute what Admiral Moorer has to say on this matter." And Admiral Moorer told CNN he is speaking out now because of his respect for history. Tailwind, sighted by military officials who confirm the use of nerve gas in combat by the United States on a hunt kill raid for American defectors, a top secret battle in a valley of death.

16. The aforementioned statements were made with deliberate disregard of whether the statements were true or false, and @ere made intending to injure SGT. PLANCICH and the other men involved. The Defendants did all of this knowing it would bring SGT. PLANCICH into public scandal and disgrace;

17. Defendants never advised SGT. PLANCICH of their intent to broadcast the statements, and never gave SGT. PLANCICH the opportunity to deny the allegations or provide his factual account of what occurred, even though he was one of the principal participants in the mission, and even though his picture was used throughout the broadcast;

18. Defendants did not sufficiently investigate to determine the truth or falsity of the matters contained in the above referenced statements, and ignored actual verifiable accounts of what occurred during Operation Tailwind. The Defendants affirmatively chose not to publish witness accounts of Operation Tailwind which were contrary to the conclusions which Defendants reached in CNN's broadcast of "Valley of Death";

19. Although the Defendants had received overwhelming information which contradicted the above-referenced defamatory statements,' they chose to portray the above statements as factual, as opposed to providing contradictory positions, and allowing viewers to determine for themselves what constituted the truth;-

20. ARNETT took an individual role in investigating the truth and/or falsity of the above referenced statements. ARNETT willfully disregarded factual accounts of Operation Tailwind which had been relayed to him. ARNETT reported that women and children had been killed by the members of Operation Tailwind without any direct evidence of any kind of such killings. These statements were made with deliberate disregard of the falsity of information provided to ARNETT during the course of his investigations and preparations for the above-referenced broadcast;

21. General Perry Smith (Retired), a military advisor for C.N.N. who had a great deal of knowledge as to military actions in Viet Nam, and who had not been consulted with regard to the Operation Tailwind story, tried to stop the Defendants from broadcasting the story based on his doubts of the story's validity, but the Defendants refused to delay the airing or further investigate the facts of the broadcast;

22. The above-referenced statements made by Defendants attributed to SGT. PLANCICH and the other men the commission of "war crimes" for which he and the other men could be sentenced to death. The war crimes alleged by Defendants included:

A. War crimes under the provisions of the Nuremberg Charter, Art. 6, for the wanton destruction of a village and for the murder of non-combatants, i.e., women and children;

B. Murder under the Federal common law, for intentionally killing women and children and American defectors without just cause or legal defense;

C.Murder under the Provisions of U.S. Code of Military Justice;

D. Violation of the Geneva Convention forbidding the use of nerve gas;

23. Defendants' defamatory statements as to SGT. PLANCICH and the men on the mission were expressly malicious and constitute libel per se;

24. As a result of Defendants' defamatory statements, SGT. PLANCICH was injured in his good name, credit, and reputation, and brought into public scandal and disgrace, has been shunned by many persons with whom he previously had social or business relations, has suffered tremendous mental anguish by being accused of war crimes (murder of women, children, and fellow Americans), and these injuries.are continuing in nature;

25. SGT. PLANCICH served a notice in writing on the Defendants specifying the broadcast and the statements therein which are false defamatory at least five (5) days before commencing this action.

WHEREFORE, SGT. PLANCICH demands judgment against the Defendants, jointly and severally, for compensatory damages in excess of $75,000.00, and for punitive damages in excess of $100,000,000.00. Should the Court disallow a demand for punitive damages, SGT. PLANCICH requests the right to amend this Complaint to add such a request when it is further supported by evidence in the record. SGT. PLANCICH requests such additional relief as the Court deems just and proper, and demands a trial by jury.

26. SGT. PLANCICH incorporates by reference the allegations contained in Paragraphs One through Twenty-Five, as if set forth in their entirety herein;

27. On June 14, 1998, the Defendants aired another "NEWSSTAND" television broadcast, both nationally and internationally, continuing the "Operation Tailwind" news article entitled "Valley of Death". A copy of the transcript of the portion of the broadcast including "Operation Tailwind" is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit "B". This electronic publication by Defendants included the following false, scandalous, and defamatory statements concerning the Plaintiff:

A. When we return: Operation Tailwind, new voices from a secret mission add to claims the U.S. used nerve gas during the Vietnam War.

B. Last week here, and in Time magazine, we reported the story of Operation Tailwind, a covert American raid into Laos in 1970. In the course of eight months of reporting we contacted over 200 people, from the men on the ground, to the pilots above, to those in the military chain of command; participants and officials with knowledge of the mission told us nerve gas was used twice to attack a camp where U.S. defectors had been spotted, and again, to suppress enemy forces, enabling American commandos to escape.

C. Jay Graves, a leader of a reconnaissance team on Tailwind, also says it was nerve gas.

D.During our reporting, several current and former military officials, who asked not to be identified, also told CNN that GB -- sarin nerve gas -- was used on Tailwind.

E. During our story last week, Admiral Moorer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in 1970, acknowledged to CNN that GB nerve gas had been used on Tailwind ... Most of the men in Operation Tailwind talked about the use of knockout gas on the mission.

28. Following the Defendants' June 7, 1998, broadcast of its first story of "Valley of Death" on CNN and TIME's new television news program, "NEWSSTAND", but before the June broadcast, SGT. PLANCICH contacted the Defendants telephonically, identified himself by name and as a participant in Operation Tailwind, and notified Defendants' agents and/or employees that the contents of the broadcast.pf June 7, 1998, were not true. SGT. PLANCICH requested to speak with anyone involved with the broadcast or anyone who had authority to stop any further broadcasts, the Defendants agent and/or employee did not allow SGT. PLANCICH to speak with anyone. SGT. PLANCI CH asked that CNN further investigate the matter before again broadcasting any defamatory statements; they did not.

29. Prior to the June 14, 1998, broadcast by the Defendants, CNN's military advisor, Gen. Perry Smith, approached agents and/or employees of CNN, TIME, and TIME WARNER, who had the authority to stop any further broadcasts or publication of the defamatory statements (some of which are listed above) and advised such person or persons that the story which had been broadcast on June 7, 1998, was false. Gen. Smith told the Defendants that he had undertaken an investigation and had proof tha t the conclusions reached by the Defendants were false.

30. The Defendants refused to investigate to determine the truth of the matters alleged by Gen. Perry Smith, their own advisor. The Defendants chose to disregard any information which Gen. Perry Smith may have been able to provide. Knowing that their own military advisor, Gen. Smith, was disputing the CNN/TIME allegations, the Defendants chose to air the defamatory statements of June 14, 1998, notwithstanding Gen. Perry Smith's representations;

31. The aforementioned statements were maliciously made with deliberate disregard of the falsity of the statements. The false statements were broadcast with the intent to injure SGT. PLANCICH and to bring SGT. PLANCICH into public scandal and disgrace;

32. Defendants did not sufficiently investigate to determine the truth of the matters contained in the above referenced statements, and ignored actual accounts of what occurred during Operation Tailwind, or simply chose not to publish witness accounts of Operation Tailwind which were contrary to the alleged "facts" in Defendants' two broadcast NEWSSTAND articles the Defendants called the "Valley of Death";

33. ARNETT took an individual role in investigating the truth and/or falsity of the above referenced statements. ARNETT willfully disregarded factual accounts of Operation Tailwind which had been relayed to him. ARNETT reported that women and children had been killed by the men of Operation Tailwind without any eye witness reports or any direct evidence of any kind of such killings. These statements were made with deliberate disregard of the fact that during ARNETT's personal investigations and preparations for the above-referenced broadcasts, he was given information directly contrary;

34.Although Defendants had received information which contradicted the above-referenced defamatory statements, they chose to portray the above statements as factual, as opposed to providing contradictory positions and allowing viewers to determine for themselves what constituted the "truth."

35. SGT. PLANCICH served a notice on the Defendants, specifying the broadcast and the statements therein which are false defamatory at least five (5) days before commencing this action.

WHEREFORE, SGT. PLANCICH demands judgment against the Defendants, jointly and severally, for compensatory damages in excess of $75,000.00, and for punitive damages in excess of $100,000,000.00. Should the Court disallow a demand for punitive damages, SGT. PLANCICH requests the right to amend this Complaint to add such a request when it is further supported by evidence in the record. SGT. PLANCICH requests such additional relief as the Court deems just and proper, and demands a trial by jury.

36. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations contained in Paragraphs One through Thirty-Five, as if set forth in their entirety herein;

37. The June 15, 1998, issue of TIME Magazine, distributed both nationally and internationally, included an article entitled "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas?" A copy of said article is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit "C". In the TIME article, among other things, the following false, scandalous, and defamatory statements were made concerning SGT. PLANCICH:

A. They had just wiped out a village base camp, killing about 100 people that included not only women and children but also what some believed to be a group of American G.I.s who had defected to the enemy.

B. The enemy troops had appeared suddenly on a nearby ridge, and were about to cut off the Americans as they tried to reach a rice paddy where rescue helicopters would land to fly them out of officially neutral Laos, back to their base in Vietnam.

C. Now, after an eight-month investigation, military officials with knowledge of the mission assert to NEWSSTAND: CNN & TIME that the gas dropped 28 years ago in Laos was nerve gas, specifically sarin, the lethal agent used in the 1995 terrorist attack in a Tokyo subway that killed a dozen people.

D. Admiral Thomas Moorer, U.S.N.(ret.), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1970, and other top military officials have confirmed the use of sarin in the Laotian operation and in other missions to rescue downed U.S. airmen during the Vietnam War. Moorer argues the use of the gas was justified under the circumstances.

E. In addition to using the nerve gas to extract the Americans after their raid, though, veteran Special Forces officers claim to NEWSSTAND: CNN & TIME that sarin was also used the night before the assault to "prepare" the village for the attack the next morning. This would indicate that civilians as well as combatants were victims of poison gas.

F.Just as surprising as the use of the gas is the reason for the raid: the targeted village was believed to be harboring a large group of American G.I..s who had defected to the enemy. The Special Forces unit's job was to kill them.

G. During its preraid briefing at Kontum, the SOG "hatchet force" was told to kill anyone it encountered.

H. In keeping with the compartmentalization of information necessary to protect top-secret missions, only a few of the SOG officers knew the precise target. And very few knew the exact type of gas available for their mission, although the unit was promised anything in the non-nuclear U.S. arsenal it might need to complete the mission. The commandos understood there was an agent commonly known as "sleeping gas" available for last-resort situations; they were aware that the gas caused respiratory distress, sudden vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions and often death.

I. Through a special field telescope, Graves' men spotted the prize -- several "roundeyes," Americans, in the village.

J. The SOG team hit the ground several miles from the targeted base camp and spent the next three days fighting its way toward it.

K.On the third night the commandos hunkered down near the village as the Air Force A-ls "prepped" the target.

L.With the camp destroyed, spotter planes overhead ordered the SOG unit to the rice paddy: where the rescue helicopters would land.

M. As many as 60 of the Montagnards died in Operation Tailwind.

N. Confirming the use of sarin, Moorer says the gas was "by and large available" for high-risk search-and-rescue missions. Sources contacted by NEWSSTAND: CNN & TIME report that GB was employed in more than 20 missions to rescue downed pilots in Laos and North Vietnam.

0. In Sept. 1970 a "hatchet force" was assigned to wipe out a Laotian village suspected of harboring American defectors. The commandos were promised any weapon they might need, including an agent they called "sleeping gas," for "last resort" situations.

38. The aforementioned statements were made with deliberate disregard of the falsity of the statements and were intended to injure SGT. PLANCICH and the other men involved in "Operation Tailwind." The statements were made in order to bring SGT. PLANCICH into public scandal and disgrace;

39. TIME, TIME WARNER, and ARNETT never advised SGT. PLANCICH of their intent to publish the statements, and never gave SGT. PLANCICH the opportunity to deny the allegations or provide his factual account of what occurred, even though he was one of the participants in the mission;

40. ARNETT took an individual role in investigating the truth and/or falsity of the above referenced statements. ARNETT willfully disregarded factual accounts of Operation Tailwind which had been relayed to him, and he reported that women and children had been killed by the members of Operation Tailwind without any eye witness reports or any direct evidence of any kind of such killings. These statements were made with deliberate disregard of the falsity of information provided to ARNETT during the course of his investigations and preparations for the above-referenced broadcast;

41. TIME, TIME WARNER, and ARNETT did not sufficiently investigate to determine the truth of the matters contained in the above referenced statements, and ignored actual accounts of what occurred during Operation Tailwind, or simply chose not to publish witness accounts of Operation Tailwind which were contrary to the conclusions which were reached in TIME's publication of "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas?";

42. Although the Defendants had received overwhelming information which contradicted the above-referenced defamatory statements, the Defendants chose to portray the above statements as factual, as opposed to providing contradictory positions, and allowing readers to determine for themselves what constituted the "truth".

43. The above-referenced -statements made by Defendants attributed to SGT. PLANCICH and the other men the commission of "war crimes" for which he and the other men could be sentenced to death. The war crimes alleged by Defendants included:

A. War crimes under the provisions of the Nuremberg Charter, Art. 6, for the wanton destruction of a village and for the murder of non-combatants, i.e., women and children;

B. Murder under the Federal common law, for intentionally killing women and children and American defectors without just cause or legal defense; C. Murder under the provisions of U.S. Code of Military Justice;

D. Violation of the Geneva Convention forbidding the use of nerve gas;

44. The TIME Magazine article's defamatory statements as to SGT. PLANCICH and the men on the mission were expressly malicious and constitute libel per se;

45. As a result of the Defendants' defamatory statements, SGT. PLANCICH was injured in his good name, credit, and reputation, and brought into public scandal and disgrace, has been shunned by many persons with whom he previously had social or business relations, has suffered tremendous mental anguish by being accused of war crimes and murder, and these injuries are continuing in nature;

46. SGT. PLANCICH served the notice in writing on TIME, TIME WARNER, and ARNETT, specifying the broadcast and the statements therein which are false and defamatory at least five (5) days before commencing this action.

WHEREFORE, SGT. PLANCICH demands judgment against the Defendants, jointly and severally, for compensatory damages in excess of $75,000.00, and for punitive damages in excess of $100,000,000.00. Should the Court disallow a demand for punitive damages at this time, SGT. PLANCICH requests the right to amend this Complaint to add such a request when it is supported by additional evidence in the record. SGT. PLANCICH requests such additional relief as the Court deems just and proper, and demands a trial by jury.

47.SGT. PLANCICH incorporates by reference the allegations contained in Paragraphs One through Forty-Six, as if set forth in their entirety herein;

48.The June 29, 1998, issue of TIME Magazine, which was distributed nationally and internationally, included an article entitled "The, Nerve Gas Story". It was published in a "letter to readers" format. A copy of said "letter" is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit "D". In this letter, the following false, scandalous, and defamatory statements were made concerning SGT. PLANCICH:

A. The CNN story was based on interviews with soldiers and officers who participated in the mission, several of whom said they believed nerve gas had been used on enemy troops attempting a counterattack on the U.S. forces. Those reports were confirmed by several high-level military sources.

B. We believed that the initial CNN report and article were based on substantial evidence.

49. The aforementioned statements were made with deliberate disregard of their falsity and were intended to injure SGT. PLANCICH and to bring SGT. PLANCICH into public scandal and disgrace;

50. Again, TIME, TIME WARNER, and ARNETT never advised SGT. PLANCICH their intent to publish the statements, and never gave SGT. PLANCICH the opportunity to deny the allegations or provide his factual account of what occurred, even though he was one of the participants in the mission;

51. Again, TIME, TIME WARNER, and ARNETT did not sufficiently investigate to determine the truth of the matters contained -in the above referenced statements, and ignored actual accounts of what occurred during Operation Tailwind, or simply chose not to publish witness accounts of Operation Tailwind which were contrary to the conclusions which were reached in the Defendants' publication of "The Nerve Gas Story";

52. Although the Defendants had received information which contradicted the above-referenced defamatory statements, the Defendants chose to portray the above statements as factual, as opposed to providing contradictory positions, and allowing readers to determine what constituted the truth for themselves;

53. The above-referenced statements made by Defendants attributed to SGT. PLANCICH and the other men the commission of "war crimes" for which he and the other men could be sentenced to death. The war crimes alleged by Defendants included:

A. War crimes under the provisions of the Nuremberg Charter, Art. 6, for the wanton destruction of a village and for the murder of non-combatants, i.e., women and children;

B. Murder under the Federal common law, for intentionally killing women and children and American defectors without just cause or legal defense;

C.Murder under the provisions of U.S. Code of Military Justice;

D. Violation of the Geneva Convention forbidding the use of nerve gas;

54. The Defendants' continuing defamatory statements as to SGT. PLANCICH and the men on the mission were expressly malicious and constitute libel per se;

55. As a result of the Defendants' defamatory statements, SGT. PLANCICH was injured in his good name, credit, and reputation, and brought into public scandal and disgrace, has been shunned by many persons with whom he previously had social or business relations, has suffered tremendous mental anguish by being accused of war crimes and murder, and these injuries are continuing in nature;

56. SGT. PLANCICH served a notice in writing on the Defendants specifying the broadcast and the statements therein which are false and defamatory at least five (5) days before commencing this action.

WHEREFORE, SGT. PLANCICH demands judgment against the Defendants, jointly and severally, for compensatory damages in excess of $75,000.00, and for punitive damages in excess of $100,000,000.00. Should the Court disallow a demand for punitive damages, SGT. PLANCICH requests the right to amend this Complaint to add such a request when it is further supported by evidence in the record. SGT. PLANCICH requests such additional relief as the Court deems just and proper, and demands a trial by jury.

57. SGT. PLANCICH incorporates by reference the allegations contained in Paragraphs One through Thirty-Five, as if set forth in their entirety herein;

58.SGT. PLANCICH is entitled to relief against the Defendants upon the above referenced facts.

59.When SGT PLANCICH learned,of the Defendants' above statements, he became extremely upset, suffered extreme mental pain. and anguish, suffered severe emotional distress, and became extremely distraught and ill;

60. The above-referenced statements imputed to SGT. PLANCICH and the other men on the mission the commission of very serious and felonious crimes, including war crimes and violations of the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Charter, and violations of the code of military justice and Federal common law, with the penalties for such crimes including imprisonment and/or the death penalty. On many of these crimes there is. no applicable statute of limitations;

61. The above-referenced statements were made intentionally to inflict severe emotional distress upon SGT. PLANCICH, and the Defendants' conduct exceeded all bounds of decency. The actions of the Defendants were of a nature calculated to cause mental damage of a very serious kind. It was obvious to the Defendants that such statements would cause severe emotional distress to SGT. PLANCICH as a person of ordinary sensibilities;

62. By reason of the acts and conduct of the Defendants, SGT. PLANCICH has endured severe mental pain and suffering and has sustained permanent injuries to his person, and he will continue in the future to have severe mental pain and suffering, severe emotional distress and impairment of his mental faculties;

63. The acts of the Defendants as set forth above are wanton, reckless, careless, false, malicious, and were made with an utter disregard of the truth of the representations made, and with an utter disregard of the rights of SGT. PLANCICH and the other men on the mission. The amputations of the defamatory words were directed against SGT PLANCICH, and they were malicious and false, and imputed the.commission of numerous war crimes and murder. The Defendants knew that their statements and amputations would disgrace SGT. PLANCICH and degrade his reputation. All of the said charges were false.

64. As a direct and proximate result of the carelessness and negligence of the Defendants, SGT. PLANCICH has suffered severe mental pain and suffering and has sustained permanent injuries to his person, and -he will continue in the future to have severe mental pain and suffering, severe emotional distress and impairment of his mental faculties;

WHEREFORE, SGT. PLANCICH demands judgment against the Defendants, jointly and severally, for compensatory damages in excess of $75,000.00, and for punitive damages in excess of $100,000,000.00. Should the Court disallow a demand for punitive damages, SGT. PLANCICH requests the right to amend this Complaint to add such a request when it is further supported by evidence in the record. SGT. PLANCICH requests such additional relief as the Court deems just and proper, and demands a trial by jury.

68. SGT. PLANCICH incorporates by reference the allegations contained in Paragraphs One through Twelve, and Paragraphs Thirty-Six through Fifty-Six, as if set forth in their entirety herein;

69. SGT. PLANCICH is entitled to relief against the Defendants upon the above referenced facts;

70. When SGT PLANCICH learned of the above statements, he became extremely upset, suffered extreme mental pain and anguish, suffered severe emotional distress, and became extremely distraught and ill;

71. The above-referenced statements imputed to SGT. PLANCICH the commission of very serious and felonious crimes, including war crimes and violations of the G@neva Convention, the Nuremberg Treaty, and violations of military and Federal common law for murder of women and children and American defectors, and the penalties for such crimes include imprisonment and/or the death penalty;

72. The above-referenced statements were made intentionally to inflict severe emotional distress upon SGT. PLANCICH, and the Defendants' conduct exceeded all bounds of decency, and were of a nature calculated to cause mental damage of a very serious kind, and were such as were calculated to cause severe emotional distress to SGT. PLANCICH as a person of ordinary sensibilities;

73. By reason of the acts and conduct of the Defendants SGT. PLANCICH has endured severe mental pain and suffering and has sustained permanent injuries to his person, and he will continue in the future to have severe mental pain and suffering, severe emotional distress and impairment of his mental faculties;

74. The acts of the Defendants as set forth above are wanton, reckless, careless, false, malicious, and were made with an utter disregard of the truth of the representations made, and with an utter disregard of the rights of SGT. PLANCICH. That the amputations of the defamatory words were directed against SGT. PLANCICH, and that they were malicious and false, and imputed the commission of numerous war crimes and murder, and that the amputations disgraced SGT. PLANCICH and degraded his reputation. That all of the said charges were false.

75. That as a direct and proximate result of the carelessness and negligence of the Defendants, Plancich has suffered severe mental pain and suffering and has sustained permanent injuries to his person, and he will continue in the future to have severe mental pain and suffering, severe emotional distress and impairment of his mental faculties;

WHEREFORE, SGT. PLANCICH demands judgment against the Defendants, jointly and severally, for compensatory damages in excess of $75,000.00, and for punitive damages in excess of $100,000,000.00. Should the Court disallow a demand for punitive damages, SGT. PLANCICH requests the right to amend this Complaint to add such a request when it is further supported by evidence in the record. SGT. PLANCICH requests such ad "tional relief as the Court deems just and proper, and demands a trial by jury.

DATED this 6th day of August, 1998.

HORAN & HORAN
608 Whitehead Street
Key West, FL 33040

By
EDWARD W. HORAN

AND

By
MITCHELL J.COOK