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writeroflight
so you condone this?
"professional journalists have been killed, wrongfully detained and or illegally abused by US forces in Iraq"
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 3, 2005 at 3:34 PM
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writer . . .
I think the point is freedom of press
so would you rather the soldiers shot the press correspondents?
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 3, 2005 at 3:23 PM
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Given the reprehensible conduct of the news media in the war . . .
. . . Reuters has nothing whatsoever to complain about. Remember
Time magazine interviewing a suicide bomber who had sworn to kill as many Americans as he could and then letting him go? May the ghosts of Ernie Pyle and every other honorable war corerspondent from past wars visit the people responsible for that and every other betrayal of our troops and the people of Iraq.
posted by
WriterofLight
on October 2, 2005 at 7:48 PM
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Kooka
It's just incredible. I love the comment in the article that Katray posted concerning 'covering themselves'. That in my opinion is exactly what they are doing. Of course they'll stand behind it as a warning and they couldn't help it if it wasn't heeded. Compassionate conservatism indeed.
posted by
DebbieDowner
on September 29, 2005 at 11:36 PM
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I've been following Reuter's conflict with the military for awhile
I could say "unbelievable!" except it really isn't...Can't say they weren't warned; I found this little article a few days ago - wonder why we never heard about this in the U.S.? HA! Good posting Xeno, thanks for putting it up.
Published Thursday 20th March 2003 16:46 GMT
Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take radical new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' journalists will be shot at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 last Sunday veteran war reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a senior Pentagon official that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite phones, that are detected by US aircraft are likely to be fired on.
Bush pere's Iraq war featured tight control of the media, but the current administration intends to go rather further. According to Adie (who, overseas readers should be aware, is effectively a saint in the UK), the Pentagon is vetting journalists who propose to cover the war, and is taking control of their comms equipment. This presumably will ease the logistics of managing the hacks quite considerably, because if the US has control of all the gear, then any gear it doesn't know about that starts broadcasting is presumably a target.
posted by
Katray2
on September 29, 2005 at 7:02 AM
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I just like
The title of the blog. It says it all.
posted by
Divine_1
on September 29, 2005 at 2:52 AM
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