Amber Lyons: All American Hero

Finally, a journalist that calls out her employer on skewing the news. Amber is an Emmy-award winning journalist formerly of CNN. She went to Bahrain March of 2011 to shoot a documentary and found out about how phony all the "revolutions" over there are. According to the Guardian:

In the segment, Lyon interviewed activists as they explicitly described their torture at the hands of government forces, while family members recounted their relatives’ abrupt disappearances. She spoke with government officials justifying the imprisonment of activists. And the segment featured harrowing video footage of regime forces shooting unarmed demonstrators, along with the mass arrests of peaceful protesters. In sum, the early 2011 CNN segment on Bahrain presented one of the starkest reports to date of the brutal repression embraced by the US-backed regime.

Despite these accolades, and despite the dangers their own journalists and their sources endured to produce it, CNN International (CNNi) never broadcast the documentary. Even in the face of numerous inquiries and complaints from their own employees inside CNN, it continued to refuse to broadcast the program or even provide any explanation for the decision. To date, this documentary has never aired on CNNi.

Here she is telling her story:

Bottom Line: Foreign governments are paying for content in OUR American media. This is not limited to CNN. Recall that the Saudis own a significant portion of Fox News, with Prince bin Talal the second biggest shareholder. Isn't it interesting that the religious and financial arch-enemy of Saudi Arabia is at the receiving end of the bomb, bomb, bomb propaganda? You don't need to think too hard about that one.