Thread by @mekdes_asefa

1/ CNN on Ethiopia
Season 1 - The CNN TPLF Marriage
CNN published around 60 articles on the Tigray Conflict from Nov 3 to date. We all know about their biased reporting and clear support for #TPLFTerroristGroup but check these facts out

2/ CNN actively developed 9 editorials between Nov 5 & Nov 13 and 0 for the rest of the month with the exception of 2 on Mai Kadra they couldn’t ignore on the 22nd and the 26th. Coincidentally, @reda_getachew went offline since Nov 15th

3/ He stayed offline for 3½ months till end of Feb except two tweets on 4th and 22nd of Dec. During 3½ months CNN made ONLY 4 articles related to the war. Coincidentally, both the resumption of CNN’s active reporting & @reda_getachew|s twitter comeback happened March 1.

4/ @reda_getachew was relatively more active in March during which CNN created 8 articles. But then he went offline for the whole of April and coincidentally CNN did ONLY 4 articles (practically 4 different versions of the same story about CNN investigation)

5/ @reda_getachew was active again the months of May and June and again coincidentally, CNN made a WHOOPING 22 articles. Is @reda_getachew their correspondent in the region? Are these reports coordinated? Or is it a pure coincidence? But it doesn’t stop there…

6/ GoE announced unilateral ceasefire on June 29 and #TPLFTerroristGroup went into other regions to loot, destroy and kill civilians through all of July. CNN’s 5 stories then were 2 about food & famine in Tigray, 1 on election result and a brief one about #TPLF entering Afar.

7/ Not a word on #TPLFTerroristGroup|s killings of suspected collaborators with GoE in Mekele, shelling of towns and killings of civilians in #Korem, #Alamata, #Kobo, different parts of #Afar, #Raya, #Wolkait that happened in July nor about the Amhara and AFAR IDPs.

8/ TPLF continued attacks in Aug and Sept & CNN wrote ONLY 5 articles, 1 article that couldn’t have been shorter about TPLF “reportedly” having seized control of Lalibella, 1 on sexual violence in Tigray, 1 on #FakeHumeraMassacre & 1 opinion piece on Abiy.

9/ The reason for #TPLFAlly @cnni|s focus on the #FakeHumeraMassacre was threefold. 1. Pressure UN, other NGOs and IC to put pressure and ultimately sanctions on Ethiopia 2. Draw no attention to their baffling silence on the real stories 3. Drown coverage of these real stories👇

10/ #ChildSoldiers proven by @nytimes , Looting of warehouses confirmed by USAID’s Eth director, #AfarMassacre (240 civilians including 107 children), #ChenaMassacre #MassGraves, Attack on #EritreanRefugees by #TPLF (confirmed by HRW), #MissingAidTrucks (confirmed by UN Ethiopia)

11/ Now tell me these aren’t stories worth mentioning if not reporting and yet not a word by @cnni
Then they reported the sanction immediately. I bet you they won’t see any mention of PM’s open later in any article. I dare you @cnni

12/ @TPLFAlly CNN regularly submitted their performance reports to #TPLF or whoever hired them on their behalf through 9 headlines that state UNSC or US to do this or that ‘after CNN’s investigation’ or ‘after CNN confirms this’.

13/ Beware of taking credit for something in public, when that same thing could be what would lead to your downfall – headfirst!
Season 2 – CNN on how and why the war started (COMING SOON)

@cnni @nimaelbagir @Qnie_Addis @jeffpropulsion @AnnGarrison @afitz3105 @AbbaSheger @SenaitSenay @BisratLKabeta @stesfa @vitsil64 @NeaminZeleke @seyoum_teshome @EugenePuryear @KwameAsiamah7 @LanderMiddle @althecat @EliezerAbate @Qomche @SaronSaricho @BlenMamoDT @NginyaDiyu

Here’s where the performance gets recognition and the winner gets exited!

https://twitter.com/qnie_addis/status/1439217923659284483