You report on war zones for free," Freedman reacted. "When was the last time I was in a war zone, sir?" Marquardt sidestepped the question. Freedman called out the CNN correspondent for refusing ...

Freedman tried to compare Young work of getting Afghans out for payment to Marquardt’s job in reporting on a war zone, suggesting that the CNN correspondent was a “hypocrite.” “So the only ...

“We remain proud of our journalists and are 100% committed to strong, fearless and fair-minded reporting at CNN, though we will of course take what useful lessons we can from this case,” a CNN ...

A Florida jury found that CNN defamed U.S. Navy veteran and former CIA operative Zachary Young in a November 2021 report on how Afghans were being charged thousands of dollars to be evacuated ...