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On October 6, Fars News Agency headlined "Ex-CNN Reporter: CNN Bribed by Dictators to Censor Realities," saying:
Amber Lyon said "CNN gets paid by despotic regimes to produce and broadcast what she referred to as 'infomercials for dictators,' saying that the sponsored content of such pieces aired on CNN International 'is actually being paid for by regimes and governments.' "
Bahrain's monarch paid CNN blood money to suppress information on its brutal crackdowns. Lyon went public and told all.
On October 3, Russia Today (rt.com) headlined "Bahrain buys favorable CNN content," saying:
Amber Lyon explained. RT interviewed her. She said she "created a lot of documentaries for CNN that didn't air internationally."
They should have, but CNN suppressed or sanitized them. She spent time in Bahrain. She witnessed state terrorism firsthand. She videotaped it. It wasn't aired internationally. She learned "Bahrain was actually a paying customer for CNN."
Favorable content was created. "Even though CNN says its content is editorially independent Bahrain can affect that -- what we've seen with that documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle I had at CNN to get Bahrain coverage, accurate coverage of the human rights abuses on-air while I was there.""What CNN is doing is they are essentially creating what some people have termed 'infomercials for dictators.' And that's the sponsored content that they are airing on CNN International that is actually being paid for by regimes and governments."
"And this violates every principle of journalistic ethics, because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments."
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