CNN claims Iran shot at a US drone, revealing the news networks' mindset | Glenn Greenwald

Its Pentagon reporter parrots significant, inflammatory government claims without an iota of skepticism or balance

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Barbara Starr, CNN's Pentagon reporter (more accurately known as: the Pentagon's reporter at CNN), has an exciting exclusive today. Exclusively relying upon "three senior officials" in the Obama administration (all anonymous, needless to say), she claims that "two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed US Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf last wee...