Posted on 03/08/2005 1:34:41 PM PST by johnny7
Journalists under fire
LONDON -- With Eason Jordan's resignation from CNN, newly powerful bloggers reveled in their unseating of another mainstream-media powerhouse. The term "Easongate" briefly entered the English language. And world attention was distracted from the serious issue of journalists' safety.
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Sorry pal... no nation on earth goes to the extremes we do to avoid mistakes on the battlefield. Don't dump that lying communist Sgrena into the article to justify Jordan's seditious accusations. She's a 'stinkin insurgency sympathizer... nothing more... the only thing they have in common is LYING!
1.) J-DAM?
2.) ishabibble?
Bloggers had nothing to do with his departure. He left for his own good reasons and he left at a time that was of his choosing. Eason may have left one step ahead of theft, dishonesty or an affair with another CNN employee. We do not know.
Eason and Sgrena MAY to tied together on some way. She got snatched by Muslim terrorists not in a kidnapping but as her cover for a meeting with her superiors. She murdered Calipali, not a US trooper, and hopes to ride the thought that Eason planted. Give a commie an opportunity to blame a murder on some one else and she take it.
Attacks on "journalists" will continue because it serves the interests of the Muslim terrorists to sacrifice them. And, "journalists" are expendable!! The Muslim terrorists know that "journalists" sell information to the IDF and Mossad and have little love for them. If they can get rid of a "journalist," especially a Eurinal or Canuckistani "journalis," and blame the US, it's a easy decision!US
Thanks.
That's not true. The US dropped a MOAB on her vehicle.
How journalists can stay safe: Stay out of war zones.
If they're going to get involved in dangerous things, I'm not going to feel sorry for them when they get hurt or killed. They're making a choice to risk themselves, and no government has any obligation to cover a reporter's ass in the middle of hostilities.
End of argument.
Actually, he left one step ahead of other MSM organizations getting their hands on the transcript or tape of his brazen lies. He had two choices: Quit now and retain some smidgen of his reputation (and CNN's), or stand firm as the entire MSM let the world know what he and CNN truly thinks of the United States military, completely destroying himself and CNN in the process.
(Actually, some accounts say he didn't quit so much as his own bosses allowed him to "resign" in order to save face, because they knew what was coming.)
So the military is the only source of information? Yeah, that's a hell of an idea for a democratic country. And since the White House and Capitol are potential terror targets, let's pull all the journalists out of there, too, and just take the politicians' word for what goes on.
The point that's usualy missed in all of this is that an intelligence agent for one of our allies was fatally shot in the head, apparently by American soldiers. Something got f-ed up somewhere, full stop. Who f-ed up and when is a question that needs to be answered, to avoid it happening again if for no other reason, and the fact that the passenger worked for a communist newspaper isn't germane to the question.
Imagine if the roles were reversed -- if Italian soldiers shot and killed a CIA or DIA officer escorting, say, Geraldo Rivera or Christianne Amanpour, who don't have many Freeper fans. Would y'all be so quick to wave off questions about that?
Snort.
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