Last night "Anderson Cooper 360" featured a long report on jihadi snipers targeting American GI's in Iraq. It was complete with video, evidently taped by the Jihadis--you know, the people trying to kill Americans. Now one might just ask: How did CNN get that footage? What did they have to do? Remember when former CNN chief Eason Jordan admitted getting chummy with Saddam Hussein in the interests of getting good stuff for CNN? Has CNN found new evil-doers to get close to, in the name of getting good video "gets"?
Was the CNN feature anti-American? No, even though it included Michael Ware, the Aussie who never met bad news about America that he didn't like. But was the segment great p.r. for the Al Qaedans and the like? You bet it was. As detailed, among other places, here.
UPDATE: Another smart post on this story, which is clearly gaining ground in the blogosphere.
