Accra — The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee recently asked the Pentagon to remove CNN reporters embedded with U.S. combat troops, saying the network's broadcast of a video showing insurgent snipers targeting U.S. soldiers was tantamount to airing an enemy propaganda film.
What the public was not told was that the CNN journalist was embedded with the US troops and was expected to only broadcast 'positive news', not 'negative news.'
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