Original sentence: (Jordan had been credited in 1996 with gaining exclusive access to North Korea for CNN reporters.CNN has come under criticism by conservatives claiming that CNN has liberal bias.CNN, after a two-week inquiry, issued a retraction.Conservatives point to the following as evidence of the bias:.Critics have claimed that CNN's reporting contains liberal editorializing within news stories, and have jokingly referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network," the "Communist News Network," or "Clearly Not Neutral".Dobbs returned the following year at the behest of CNN founder Ted Turner.In 1998, CNN, in partnership with corporate sister Time magazine, ran a report that Operation Tailwind in 1970 in Indochina included use of Sarin gas to kill a group of defectors from the United States military.In 2000, Lou Dobbs left CNN, reportedly due to heated clashes with then-president Rick Kaplan, who was frequently accused by conservatives of manipulating news programs to present a liberal slant.On August 16, 1997, Chief News Executive Eason Jordan gave a gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in an attempt to improve CNN's access to North Korean affairs.Skeptics deemed it improbable that such an extraordinary and risky atrocity could have gone unnoticed at the height of the Vietnam War's unpopularity.The Pentagon denied the story.The story's producers, April Oliver and Jack Smith, were summarily sacked