Over the weekend, Richard Quest, the business traveller correspondent on CNN is arrested at Central Park, New York (USA) with meth in his pocket (?), a sex toy in his car boot and a rope round his genitals and neck. He had violated a curfew [in short, he was not supposed to be at that place at that time].
He goes to rehab to get over his substance abuse problems...
Jack Cafferty, a show host on CNN, earlier this month, said the United States imported Chinese-made "junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food" and added: "They're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years".
CNN says Cafferty was expressing an opinion about the Chinese government......Now they are being sued for US$ 1.3 billion. [An aside here: A Chinese singer has released a song titled "Don't be too CNN" in response to the biased reporting of the protests in a number of European cities to the Olympic Torch relay].
In 2007, Marianne Briner, a 66-year-old Swiss businesswoman, published email exchanges between her and Jeff Koinange on a blog. She also sent a complaint to his boss at CNN's Atlanta headquarters, claiming that Koinange had admitted to bribery and hoaxing an exclusive report from Nigeria.
He was fired.....
Am I the only one who thinks this is unfair? Or even subtly racist?
Newsflash: The first two cases involve white men, the third is a black [a matter of fact, an African].
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