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CNN’s Clarissa Ward Rambles For Nearly Four Minutes On Syria’s ‘Complexities’ After False Report
CNN’s Clarissa Ward confirmed Tuesday evening that her recent story on the release of a Syrian prisoner was, in fact, ...
CNN says its report on a freed Syrian prisoner is not what it initially believed
A report by CNN's Clarissa Ward about a freed Syrian prisoner provided some dramatic scenes, but the network has since found ...
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Aleppo: Rebels 'take control' of airport as thousands of fighters seize most of Syria's second-biggest city
Syria's military said it had carried out a "temporary troop withdrawal" in Aleppo to prepare for a counteroffensive against "terrorists". And it admitted insurgents had entered large parts of the ...
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CNN says it was misled by the man freed in a Syria report with Clarissa Ward
We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
CNN Reporter Clarissa Ward Confirms Syrian 'Prisoner' in Now-Infamous Video Report Is Notorious Intelligence Officer
The "prisoner's" true identity as a notorious torturer and extortionist was first established during an investigation by Verify-Sy, an independent Syrian news organization.
CNN admits man freed in viral segment was notorious lieutenant for Assad regime, not civilian as he claimed
CNN admitted on Monday that it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from ...
CNN Presented a Syrian Jailer as a Torture Survivor
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of ...
A CNN team rescued a ‘prisoner’ from Syrian jail. Now, the outlet admits he was an Assad torturer
After a fact-checking group in Syria concluded that a man found in an abandoned Syrian prison was actually an Assad officer who took part in tortures, CNN said it is now investigating if the prisoner ...
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CNN, Clarissa Ward draw criticism after man freed from Syrian jail turns out to be Air Force officer
Last week, CNN journalist Clarissa Ward and an unidentified cameraman for the network ... who disappeared while reporting in ...
Viral Syrian ‘prisoner’ found by CNN crew cowering in cell ‘was a fleeing Assad officer pretending to be regime critic’
THE viral “prisoner” discovered by a CNN news crew cowering in a cell was one of Assad’s evil torturers, a Syrian ...
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CNN frees Syrian prisoner. He turns out to be Assad regime's torturer: Report
The man told CNN he had been imprisoned for three months. However, investigations by a Syrian fact-checking organisation ...
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CNN probes its viral prison video as Syrians fact check foreign media
The Verify-Sy account sparked an online backlash from Syrians against Ward and CNN. “Syrians are closely monitoring every ...