CNN has stringently denied that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim paid the global news broadcaster to do an interview early this month.
A CNN spokesperson who is based in Hong Kong (CNN's Asia headquarters are located here in HK), said, “The story about CNN accepting payment from anyone for Anwar Ibrahim to appear on 'Connect the World' is clearly fabricated. It is disturbing that no effort was made to contact us and independently verify these groundless allegations before they were subsequently reported as fact.”
The controversy was started by Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia last Friday with its July 9 report headlined 'Anwar alleged to have paid CNN'.
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