What's With This CNN Front Page Pic?

[Dinger]

It looks like the National Enquirer- those two guys are holding signs (one anti-Newsweek, one anti-bu$h) that look like they were pasted in there - it almost looks like that's the way CNN wanted it. Weird. What do you think?
http://www.cnn.com/

[meegbear]

1. It did strike me as wierd ....

why would they want a magazine to stop publishing if it's going to release info like this? I would think, if anything, they'd want it to keep publishing so information like this would be known.

Most peculiar mama.

[cruadin]

2. It's a strange picture -- why would Muslims be angry at Newsweek...

for reporting the story AND be demanding that Bush apologise for the story Newsweek reported.

BTW those signs look a little TOO well-made.

[displacedtexan]

3. Pesky Protesters Pay Professional Sign Painters

should be the headline.

What a crock! Look at that lettering.

[whistle]

4. Newsweek and MSNBC have a connection somehow in that....

...their news organizations give exclusivity to each other. CNN could very well have a connection with the U.S. military and conspired to put out a false news report, then further conspired to mislead Newsweek reporters and editors into believing the Koran story to be true until mayhem could be tied to the story, then giving CNN the public denial of the story, thus embarrassing MSNBC and Newsweek. There is a pattern of the military and BushCo destroying the credibility of established journalists.

[MADem]

7. A disinfo scheme

Seeing as CNN has had "interns" that were actually mil/gov't operatives, nothing would be a surprise at this point.

History: http://www.commondreams.org/views/032300-107.htm

Reading this in Belgrade, where he's Trouw's correspondent, De Vries saw a good story, picked up the phone, and finally reached Maj. Thomas Collins of the U.S. Army Information Service, who duly confirmed the presence of these Army PSYOPs experts at CNN. ``PSYOPs personnel, soldiers and officers,'' De Vries quoted Collins as telling him, ``have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program `Training with Industry.' They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news.''

I reported this interesting disclosure in my newsletter, CounterPunch, and made it the topic of my regular weekly broadcast to ``AM Live,'' a program of the South Africa Broadcasting Company in Johannesburg. Among the audience of this broadcast was CNN's bureau in South Africa, which lost no time in relaying news of it to CNN headquarters in Atlanta, and I duly received an angry phone call from Eason Jordan, who identified himself as CNN's president of news gathering and international networks.

Jordan was full of indignation that I had somehow compromised the reputation of CNN. But in the course of our conversation, it turned out that, yes, CNN had hosted a total of five interns from U.S. Army PSYOPs, two in television, two in radio, and one in satellite operations. Jordan said the program had begun on June 7 (just before the end of the war against Serbia), and only recently terminated, I would guess at about the time CNN's higher management read Abe De Vries' stories.

Naturally enough, Eason Jordan and other executives at CNN now describe the Army PSYOPs intern tours at CNN as having been insignificant. Maybe so. Col. St. John, the commanding officer of the PSYOPs group, certainly thought them of sufficient significance to mention at that high-level Pentagon pow-wow in Arlington about propaganda and psychological warfare. Maybe CNN was the target of a PSYOPs penetration and is still too naive to figure out what was going on.

[Dinger]

11. Yes, A Definite And OBVIOUS PATTERN! (nt)

[Ready4Change]

5. The signs are in a font, as well.

It's too regular to be hand drawn lettering. Either those signs were made commercially, or whatever message was on them has been wiped and replaced digitally. Imho.

[unhappycamper]

6. Just thought I would save the CNN pic in case they pull it.

Here ya go......

[sendero]

9. LOL...

.... you've gotta be kidding me :) Yeah, those are real, sure yep uhuh.

[mikehiggins]

10. Isn't the lighting wrong on the signs?

Fake? You betcha

[Dinger]

12. Thank You - I Don't Know How To Do That Cool Stuff (nt)

[Dinger]

13. I Think CNN Is Mocking Newsweek Here (nt)

[Willy Lee]

15. Are you serious?

The pic is no longer on the CNN website, at least not on the front page. Was this really the picture? Really?

I am gullible.... that pic is SO BOGUS!!!

[DemoTex]

16. Thanks. They pulled it. n/t

[Dinger]

18. Maybe CNN Was Here - Your Timing Is Perfect - It's Been Pulled

As someone else on thes thread said, why are these in English??? I'm glad I caught this.

[madhat]

19. I started another thread on this too.....

Can you make those signs bigger? How do you do it?

[Village Idiot]

8. This is such a bogus POS...

Sure - Newsweek lied...sure they did...

But did the Daily Mirror, New York Times, Washington Post and UK Guardian ALL lie in 2004-5 when they printed similar stories regarding the dreadful treatment of Muslims and the desecration of the Koran at Gitmo???

ANYTHING to get the "My Pet President" and "Downing Memo" stories out of the press, I suppose...

[KansDem]

14. Don't forget, CNN used the same photo to ID two nuclear power plants...

The exact same photo, first in North Korea and then in Iran! The photo(s) appeared on it's website only a few days apart! What a pack of morons!

CNN is also known for the "yawning boy" lie.

It's credibility is shot...

[paula777]

17. They ususally hold up signs in arabic - not english

This is fake or staged or something