AP Understates on Behalf of CNN

"CNN understood that some critics might find that the tape had public relations benefits for the insurgency."

No kidding. The Associated Press's David Bauder treads lightly on CNN here, in this piece, which bends over backward to see things CNN's way.

But even Bauder can't gloss over the fact that the network "Had already received several angry responses from viewers of Wednesday's five-minute report, some wondering whether CNN was helping the enemy and others concerned that the tape was inappropriate for young viewers who may have happened upon it."

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