CNN sinking so low in reporting Ethiopia’s current situation

ADDIS ABABA- Since the war broke out in Ethiopia ,CNN and other big Western news media companies have been engaged in information war against Ethiopia and manipulating facts on the ground in the favor of the criminal side, a technology strategist and consultant said.

The technology strategist and consultant at a Fortune 500 Global Firm Solomon Kassa exposed

CNN’s fake news reporting against Ethiopia on his tweeter post that “this is how LOW CNN fake news want to go but when they go low we go high.” recent fake news titled Tigrayan troops just outside Addis Ababa and the news media utilized a photograph unrelated to the event.

By the same token, the renowned Ugandan investigative journalist Daniel Lutaaya, disproved the CNN fake propaganda and lethal journalism against Ethiopia on his November 5, 2021 twitter post. He tweeted that “in Adama now but there is nothing, No bullets, No tension, bars are open, No roadblocks. There is actually more Military presence in Kampala than in Addis Ababa.”

An Ethiopian-American CBS Journalist Hermela Aregawi said for her part that there is so many hands that have made the war possible. “One of those arms are the media. You know the West feed a narrative until they manifest it. They literally create the scenario that you are talking about and Ethiopia as a developing economy does not want to be used and abused.”

For Addis Ababa University Journalism Lecturer Anteneh Tsegaye (PhD) the West’s unconditional love for the repressive TPLF showcasing they are indifferent to human right abuses as long as their interest is firmly secured.

In order to protect the public from the intensified fake news, journalists in the mainstream media should act proactively and provide timely and verified information thereby countering the ill-conceived attempts of manipulating public perception, Anteneh noted.

Social media posts of Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia are trending criticizing the CNN fake news using various illustrations, and cartoons.

 BY MULATU BELACHEW

THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD  NOVEMBER 7/2021

Recommended For You