{"id":4109,"date":"2007-12-07T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T06:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/cnn-a-casualty-of-iran-nie\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T06:11:23","slug":"cnn-a-casualty-of-iran-nie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/cnn-a-casualty-of-iran-nie\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN a Casualty of Iran NIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite tragic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/VR1117977083.html\">CNN was ready to help lead the march to attack Iran<\/a> with its special &#8220;We Were Warned \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Iran Goes Nuclear.&#8221;   The two-hour show was to air December 12.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than deal with facts, the show was set in a future where Iran has become a nuclear threat. That special was &#8220;based on a different set of rules and a different set of conditions,&#8221; said CNN veep-senior exec producer Mark Nelson, noting that the surprising NIE report &#8220;changed everything.&#8221;  In its place, CNN will this weekend air two Campbell Brown-hosted specials on the Iran situation and its history. Portions of &#8220;We Were Warned&#8221; correspondent Frank Sesno&#8217;s original reporting will be incorporated into those hours, which air Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure CNN will recover and find some other way to help start a war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite tragic. CNN was ready to help lead the march to attack Iran with its special &#8220;We Were Warned \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Iran Goes Nuclear.&#8221; The two-hour show was to air December 12. Rather than deal with facts, the show was set in a future where Iran has become a nuclear threat. That special was &#8220;based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}