CNN NAFIKAN FITNAH MEREKA TERHADAP ANWAR

CNN menafikan sekeras-kerasnya dakwaan yang kononnya Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim membuat bayaran agar beliau diwawancara oleh stesen televisyen berita angtarabangsa itu, awal bulan ini.
“Berita CNN menerima bayaran daripada seseorang supaya Anwar muncul di 'Connect the World' adalah palsu,” kata seorang jurucakap CNN yang berpangkalan di Hong Kong di mana ibu pejabat Asia stesen itu beroperasi.

“Adalah membimbangkan kerana tiada usaha dilakukan untuk menghubungi kami dan secara berkecuali mengesahkan dakwaan yang tidak berasas itu sebelum melaporkannya sebagai fakta.”

Akhbar harian Utusan Malaysia pada Jumaat lalu mencetuskan kontroversi dengan laporan 9 Julai yang bertajuk “Anwar didakwa bayar CNN'.

Laporan itu merujuk kepada tulisan presiden Trevino Strategies and Media Inc, Joshua Trevino, yang menulis di portal Amerika - The New Ledger yang Anwar mengupah kenalan medianya, khususnya CNN, bagi menyakin para pelobi Yahudi bahawa beliau bukan anti-Israel.

Trevino mendakwa wawancara CNN menerusi 'Connector of the Day' pada 2 Julai lalu adalah 'jinak' berhubung Anwar disoal berhubung retorik anti-Zionis ketua pembangkang itu.

Berikut laporan itu, beberapa pemimpin tertinggi Umno membidas Anwar yang didakwa 'membayar' untuk diwawancara.

"Jika benar Anwar membiayai temu bualnya dengan CNN itu, ia menunjukkan beliau tunduk kepada Amerika Syarikat dan Yahudi...dia akan lakukan apa sahaja untuk mencapai cita-citanya untuk jadi Perdana Menteri," kata naib presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal sehari selepas Utusan menyiarkan laporan berkenaan.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang juga timbalan presiden Umno berkata laporan itu menunjukkan Anwar adalah terdesak.

edisi orang puteh:
From Malaysiakini
CNN has stringently denied that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim paid the global new broadcaster to do an interview early this month.
MCPX

“The story about CNN accepting payment from anyone for Anwar Ibrahim to appear on ‘Connect the World’ is clearly fabricated,” said a CNN spokesperson, who is based in Hong Kong where the network’s Asia headquarters is located.
“It is disturbing that no effort was made to contact us and independently verify these groundless allegations before they were subsequently reported as fact.”
Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia had on last Friday kicked off the controversy with its July 9 report headlined ‘Anwar alleged to have paid CNN’.

The report referred to Trevino Strategies and Media Inc president Joshua Trevino, who wrote in a US-based news portal The New Ledger that Anwar hired media contacts, particularly in CNN, to convince Jewish lobbyists that he is not anti-Israel.
Trevino had lamented that the CNN’s ‘Connector of the Day’ interview on July 2 was “tame” in questioning Anwar’s anti-Zionist rhetoric.
Following the Utusan report, a number of Umno leaders attacked Anwar over the alleged “paid” interview.

“If it is true that Anwar paid for the CNN interview, it shows that he stoop so low to the United States and the Jews… he will do anything to achieve his ambition of becoming the prime minister,” said Umno vice-president Mohd Shafie Apdal the day after the Utusan report.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also Umno deputy leader, said that the allegation showed that Anwar was desperate.
“He can use the media. If he has to pay, then let him pay to clarify his position and the lies he told when he went abroad,” he was quoted as saying by New Straits Times in a July 11 report headlined ‘Muhyiddin: Anwar paid CNN’.

Another round of attacks Utusan, an Umno-owned newspaper, has since ratcheted up the tempo against Anwar, this time with another report on Sunday alleging that the PKR supremo was a CIA stooge.

The report is based on the posting of an obscure American blogger, Elaine Meinel Supkis, who claimed that her source was “a Jewish editor of the warmongering Washington Post”.

Utusan cited Meinel’s posting – bizarrely entitled ‘CIA and Mossad want Anwar Ibrahim assassinated’ – which claimed that Anwar serves to protect the US’ interests and to undertake covert planning on its behalf in Malaysia.
This sparked another round of attacks from other Umno leaders, including Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and Information Communication and Culture Minister Rais Yatim.

SUMBER:Kedahlanie.blogspot.com,
13.7.2010.