That's the headline atop The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, where managing editor Chris Lykins well serves readers in Central Texas. Describing the CNN sniper video, which aired Wednesday night, Lykins frames the issue in powerful and impassioned terms:
"For those families who get treated to the final moments of their loved ones before their violent end in the network’s pursuit of 'truth,' it is especially cruel. ...
"Hiding behind journalistic principles long-since abandoned, the network has sunk to a new low by essentially becoming the propaganda and public relations arm of a group of thugs and murderers. ...
"I don’t trust CNN anymore — haven’t since I learned that the network essentially sat on stories about just how bad things were in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was running it in order to maintain access in the country.
"Back then we didn’t need to know how bad things were going in Iraq, and CNN said it sat on those stories to protect the lives of people.
"Yet, here, just a few years later, CNN says we desparately need to know how bad things are in Iraq and the network can’t wait to show us the end of another series of lives.
"CNN hasn’t only lost its way — it’s a network that’s lost its soul."
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