The More Things Change at CNN.

"Some cultures never change regardless of whom is running the organization.

Ted Turner is no longer the top boss at CNN. You wouldn't know that by that network's behavior, however. . . . There is no question that Bin Laden is the leader of the terrorist network that killed all those innocent people in New York and Washington. So does CNN behave as if he is the enemy? Not exactly. Instead, they submit six questions to him in advance for an interview.

"As a journalist by profession, I can tell you that one of the first things you are taught is you NEVER give questions in advance to a political or governmental figure before an interview. You might agree on the topic areas to be covered, sure. But specific questions? Absolutely not.

". . . So right from square one, CNN violates one of the most critical rules of the journalistic profession. That is bad enough. But hello? We are again at war. What is the idea of giving the enemy time to expound his viewpoint over our airwaves? I'll bet if Adolf Hitler had been given six questions inb advance by CBS radio, with enough coaching, he could have sounded reasonable to at least some of the American people. Who knows? As the body bags came home by the tens of thousands, would our nation's resolve have weakened if Hitler had been allowed to appeal to the American people to put pressure on their leaders to stop the bombing of Germany while promising concessions by his own country in return?

"The New York Post asks the best question of all: Do we think Emperor Hirohito should have been given airtime to explain Pearl Harbor to the American people? Questions in advance to Bin Laden under our current circumstances should never ever be contemplated, let alone implemented. Once again CNN is more concerned with ratings than it is with the security of the USA. Or the other possibility is, and I hesitate to mention it lest I be branded a McCarthyite for life, that the CNN crowd is really sympathetic to our enemies. They want Saddam's and Bin Laden's point of view to come across because they think it has merit."

Paul Weyrich, Free Congress Foundation, 10/23/01

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