‘Bahrain Buys Favorable CNN Content’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Music Video of the Week, 8 October 2012
by Amber Lyon, former CNN journalist – Russia Today
Amid a violent crackdown on a popular uprising, Bahrain paid CNN to get favorable coverage, says a former reporter who believes her documentary on the protests there was censored by the network.
Former CNN journalist Amber Lyon made the documentary more than six months ago. It was aired domestically in the US, but never made it to CNN international, raising claims that the management pulled the plug on the story.
RT spoke to Lyon to get the full story of what happened.
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