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Opinion

“Every Journalist’s Worst Nightmare”: CNN’s Myanmar Misadventure

by Aye Min Thant 13 April 202130 September 2021

CNN reporter Clarissa Ward’s shallow coverage of the Myanmar coup, her endangerment of her sources and her embarrassing rationalisations erode journalistic ethics and perpetuate the notion that brown people need a white saviour, writes Aye Min Thant.