On October 1, 2010, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired after remarks he made during an interview with comedian Pete Dominick at a radio show the previous day about prejudices he faced during his television career, at CNN and jokes about him by comedian Jon Stewart. Calling him a bigot before retracting this and describing him instead as prejudiced and uninformed, the interviewer invoked Stewarts faith as an example of how Stewart was a minority as much as you are. Sanchez stated his view that Jewish people were not an oppressed minority in America, and his view that everybody that runs CNN is a lot like Stewart before stating And a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart.[78] In October 2011, Amber Lyon told a European news service that she had been directed by CNN to report selectively, repetitively, and falsely in order to sway public opinion in favor of direct American aggression against Iran and Syria,[79] and that this was common practice under CNN. She subsequently reconfirmed this in detail, addressing the degraded state of journalistic ethics in an interview with American radio host Alex Jones,[80] during which she also discussed the Bahraini episode, suggesting paid-for content was also taken from Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other states, that the War on Terrorism had also been employed as a pretext to pre-empt substantive investigative journalism within the U.S., and that following the Bahrain reporting, her investigative department had been terminated and reorganized, and her severance and employee benefits used as a threat to intimidate and attempt to purchase her subsequent silence. Lyon had met with Tony Maddox, president of CNN International, twice about this issue in 2011 and had claimed that during the second meeting she was threatened and intimated to stop speaking on the matter.[81
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