Posted on 06/08/2004 3:02:43 PM PDT by RaceBannon
tell that to CENTCOM
tHIS IS NOT A blog.
wHY IS EVERYTHING BEING PUT IN blogs??
this is news!!
How do they know who the call came from? How do they know they weren't going to be kidnapped?
"This is like saying that if someone called the NYT's from Afghanistan telling them to go to the WTC with a camera,"
So, what could they do to know what was going to happen, seek out a psychic?
"the NYT could not pass on the call because it could be considered covert intel."
They can do whatever they want. They have their considerations and will make their own decisions with what they have to go on. They are abliged to do nothing and the govm't is abliged to stay out of their decisions and allow them to make them w/o, requirement of notification, or sanction.
Even more than lawyers?
Just red, thanks.
Put them up against the wall and shoot them...they are the enemy!
This makes me so angry I could spit right in their faces!!
Thank you Race for posting that.
Excellently written, and as I suspected.
Anyone know which journalists, as far as nationality, media company or whatever?
It sounds like the same thing, the first was just more luridly expressed. How is it not what you quoted?
you must be one hell of a leftist propagandist and/or a lawyer!! Common sense and facts have no bearing on what the meaning of the word"IS" is.
You aren't from Hot Springs perchance are you?
They were jealous because Al Jazeera journalists got tips on where to go and when, and then got all the dead American/mutilated bodies scoops. Hopefully, Reuters and AP, etc. will come to their senses. Maybe the BBC already has.
What international law is that and why should American journalists or soldiers give a flying f**k about it even if it is an international law?
What I can't understand is why you seem to think that it's an ok thing for journalists to receive a "tip" that "something" is going to "happen" and give no warning to the US military.
My post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150040/posts?page=33#33 was to JohnHuang. He is a political editorialist. I was requesting he use this story for a blog.
His editorials attracts a very large reader base.
See if you can find that the journalists had prior knowledge of an attack and could guess the details of that attack in the CENTCOM note. The CENTCOM note says that they had essentially nothing. Under the Geneva Conventions journalists are considered civilians not taking part in hostilities. Their independence has a value well recognized by the US and others, the particulars of any bias notwithstanding.
Prove to me they didn't.
The CENT COM report was brief and obviously said less than they knew. So we can't know many details. But it's obvious that the journalists knew "something" would "happen" which wouldn't be a good thing for the US military.
So, IF they said nothing to warn the US military (which is what is sounds like) then they were accessories to assisting the enemy.
No more protection for them, then. And also use these media people as a warning, when you see reporters - go around and avoid the trap. Perhaps the enemy will get so frustrated that it will nab our dear journalists so THEY may experience "dipolmacy" as meted out by our enemy. It would do them good.
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