ARMENIA: CNN GENOCIDE COVERAGE CONTROVERSY
By Simon Maghakyan

EuropeNews
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Dec 8 2008
Denmark

Too short for Armenians and too long for the Turkish government, a
two-hour CNN documentary by Christiane Amanpour on genocide includes
a 45-second mention of the WWI extermination of Ottoman Empire’s
indigenous Armenian population.

Premiered on December 4, 2008, Scream Bloody Murder has made many
Armenian bloggers angry, leading them to recall Hitler’s rhetoric
for impunity, "Who, after all, remembers the Armenians?"

Armenia-based blogger, photographer and designer Arsineh had concerns
even before watching the documentary. Writing on Ars Eye View,
she says:

I’m preparing to watch the program for myself, but given this much
prior information, I have to ask. If you are going to cover the
epidemic of genocide, starting with the campaign to criminalize
genocide, continue to show the struggle so many have endured to
(as you titled your program) "SCREAM BLOODY MURDER" while the
world turned a deaf ear only to allow genocide to continue around
the world, shouldn’t you be talking about the biggest cover up of
genocide, the very one which inspired Lemkin to coin the word, the
very one which also inspired Adolf Hitler to follow through with the
Holocaust? Afterall, it’s this denial that scares CNN from ever using
the word "Genocide" in their reporting on related matters.