…”It is also interesting that while CNN obtained footage showing when the vehicles carrying soldiers left their barracks and arrived at the Lekki Toll Gate, it could not obtain any footage showing the bodies of those supposedly killed in the massacre. Is CNN not embarrassed by this sharp climbdown? Has CNN owned up to this and apologized for its faux pas?
“Almost a month later, the same CNN - after a supposedly exhaustive investigation - is now reporting only one death from what the world was made to believe was a massacre. READ ALSO: #EndSARS: CSO flays CNN on Lekki protest report 23rd 2020, it emphatically tweeted, from its verified twitter handle, that the military killed 38 people when it opened fire on peaceful protesters on Tuesday, Oct. …”In airing its ‘investigative’ report, CNN conveniently forgot that on Oct. “Unlike CNN, a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Pidgin Service, Damilola Banjo, was at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night in question, and was quoted as saying soldiers shot sporadically into the air and not at the protesters - a direct contradiction of the position taken by CNN who relied on second and third-hand information. While experts say eyewitness testimony is a potent form of evidence, it is also subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases. “Neither its reporter nor cameraman was there, but it relied on eyewitnesses. CNN was not present at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of the incident. …”Another serious breach by CNN, in its ‘investigation’, is that the network relied heavily on unverified footages it harvested from social media. In other words, Nima, and by extension, CNN, breached the most basic of the core principles of journalism - balance and fairness.ĬNN relied heavily on unverified footages harvested from social media “It is, therefore, strange, to say the least, that she would rush to air such an important investigation report without getting the government’s side. Nima Elbagir, who presented the report and most probably led the investigation, is conversant with the Minister of Information and Culture, who is also the Spokesman for the Federal Government of Nigeria, yet did not say that she even tried to reach the Minister. …”The truth is that CNN did not even attempt to reach the Federal Government. “While CNN said there was no response from the army and that officials of Lagos State would not speak in view of the Judicial Panel that is investigating the matter, it did not say what effort it made to speak with any official of the Federal Government. CNN said it contacted over 100 protesters and family members, but did not speak to one official of Nigeria’s Federal Government.
…”Rushing to air such a momentous story without presenting the government’s side is inexcusable and indefensible.
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