This is a great article but what's more: take a look at the included map. Notice where the pipeline is going (if it ever is built...). It will go right through Macedonia that borders with Kosovo...

My take on this: Kosovo is a buffer zone to protect the eventual pipeline. Remember that Yugoslavia is still very much a Russian ally.

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. That's where the real action is: places like the Chechnya, Dageston, Armenia, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Xianjiang,..

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That is the trans-caucusas region

What a joke.

Oh..and lest we forget that many news media also reported those figures but were quickly dropped.

Wonderful quote:

In war...truth is the first casualty.

Remember the poor blokes in train that got bombed to hell...and then the Air Farce fast forwarded the video to make it look as an 'act of god'....

After all they are no different to any other news industry around the world...the fact is that ALL of them have to make money and if you dont make money you dont stay in business.

Me thinks its more to do with Paranoia or the fact that its an american business than anything else.

I do not know, how exactly it works, but as far as international issues are concerned, they are always promoting USA point of view and spin-engineer their reports for that purpose.

Compare CNN's reports to BBC's on the same issue (which is promoting British government position, but not so agressively, so can go as an independent media source for the sake of comparison with CNN). On the same issues, CNNs are much more spin-engineered. Watch descriptions and comments added to the report. They are there to form a reader's opinion. It's getting even worse with TV picture.

Well I got news for you mate but I wouldnt trust Russian media for as far as one could kick them....especially since the media for so long has been run by the government and you dont just throw the shackles off over night.

If the government aint directing them what to say then they are probably a cover up or front end for the Russian media.

Yes it sounds rediculous doesnt it but its no more rediculous than what you say or your mis-trust of western media.

At the end of the day CNN, BBC News, Uncle Ivans Media et al all have to make money to stay in business...this isnt just a western thing its a world thing (that is unless they are a state run news source like the chinese media).

Also Christian, didnt Peter Arnet and co make that one up about Nerv agents being used in Vietnam or was that the one about AWOL servicement being killed in cambodia....I cant remember??

The point is that CNN is promoting views of the State Department, making them a public opinion of USA citizens. As I said, I dont know how this relationship works, but it obviously exists.

As for blowing some big stories from time to time: (1) dont forget that CNN is a profit-making private business; for them ratings are all-important, which means they need big stories; (2) there are internal political fights - there media is a powerful weapon; (3) that particular sory you mentioned - does it make any harm to the present government of USA at all?

>>So what?