>>> It was surprising that CNN covered the story in the first place. Dozens of people marched outside the news channel's Atlanta headquarters, holding signs and chanting slogans denouncing CNN's role as warmongering mouthpiece for government and business.

The story was posted on CNN's Website on 24 November 2002. It was soon gone. The Website of Citizens for Legitimate Government reports that by the afternoon of the next day, the article was no longer available. The BuzzFlash Website, which had linked to the article, then linked to the archived copy of the article in Google's cache. Soon that, too, was deleted. Luckily Buzzflash had kept a full copy of the story, including a screenshot (several blogs also ran some or all of the article, providing further corroboration that this is the correct text). It is presented below.

[the original URL for the article]
[Acrobat copy of the CNN Webpage, from Buzzflash]

[photographs of the anti-CNN demonstration from IndyMedia]

Protesters criticize CNN coverage of Iraq

Sunday, November 24, 2002 Posted 5:33 PM EST (2233 GMT)

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- More than 80 demonstrators picketed outside CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta Sunday afternoon, saying the network lacks anti-war perspectives in its coverage of the U.S. confrontation with Iraq.

Demonstrators carried signs reading "Corporate Nonsense Network" and "For Sale: Free Press," among others, and chanted "Half the story, all the time" and "Not in our name." The protest was organized by a group of Georgia State University students and anti-war activists.

CNN spokesman Matt Furman said the network "reports from the region and around the world, from all sides," but respected the demonstrators' right to protest.

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