Why didn’t CNN’s international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain’s Arab Spring repression ? ►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression - nice case of caricatural journalistic prostitution to PR money... The word “newsmercial” springs to my mind.
Why didn’t CNN’s international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain’s Arab Spring repression? | Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression?INTCMP=SRCH
In late March 2011, as the Arab Spring was spreading, CNN sent a four-person crew to Bahrain to produce a one-hour documentary on the use of internet technologies and social media by democracy activists in the region. Featuring on-air investigative correspondent Amber Lyon, the CNN team had a very eventful eight-day stay in that small, US-backed kingdom. (...) Source: The Guardian
Article édifiant du Guardian qui raconte comment CNN international a censuré le reportage de l’une de ses journalistes sur la révolte à Bahreïn. L’article rend compte des pressions de royaume des al-Khalifa sur la chaîne américaine à ce sujet et de la campagne de relations publiques de plus de 30 millions de dollars engagée par Manama aux USA :
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression?INTCMP=SRCH
Un article sur le site du Nouvel Obs reprend une partie du contenu de l’article du Guardian :
►http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/vu-sur-le-web/20120905.OBS1349/cnn-a-t-il-tente-d-etouffer-un-reportage-sur-le-bahrein.html
