Posted on 11/30/2008 4:59:00 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A SOUTH Wales couple caught in the Mumbai terror attacks claimed last night that CNN put their lives at risk by broadcasting where they were.
Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.
Mrs Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
She has appealed to the media to be careful with the information it broadcasts because safety could be compromised and lives lost.
The couple flew back into Heathrow yesterday morning on a flight arranged by the British Consulate.
Mrs Shaw had been forced to hide under a table as terrorists stormed the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
She and her husband were later rescued by Gurkhas and taken straight to the Australian Embassy for safety.
The couple were at the end of a month-long visit to India and were staying in Mumbai for a few days before heading back to the UK.
From her home in Penarth yesterday, Mrs Shaw said: “We have been asked by the British terror police not to talk to the press.
“But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were.
“The terrorists were watching CNN and they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about us on television. For that reason I would appeal to the media to be very careful about what they broadcast.
(Excerpt) Read more at walesonline.co.uk ...
Where’s that nut with the Dinosaur Media Death Watch Alert when you need him. Seems like these people are alive and well causing calamity all over the world.
*snicker*
*chuckle*
*snort*
BWAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
You're a funny guy, you should be on BBC-4...
“For that reason I would appeal to the media to be very careful about what they broadcast.”
Well, they were very careful. Your mistake is believing they give a crap about your safety. If you doubt the media sides with the terrorists, you haven’t been paying attention.
Didn’t Geraldo Rivera or some other journalist give away American troop movements during the initial stages of the Iraq war?
Do the news people have any actual judgement about the consequences of what they put on the air?
Surprise, surprise. What is it that people don’t get.
The media don’t give a damn about anything but the “story”. They don’t give a damn about people, America or for that matter Russia or China. They are self absorbed fools who believe their faces on camera or their names in print is proof they are substantial.
Plato said it best...”Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools, because they have to say something.”
We just report the news, folks. We report. You take the consequences.
CNN sides with the terrorists! Dang, who don’t know that!
He’s not a “nut.”
I’m not surprised at the Communist News Network. This is the same network that employs Donna Brazile(YUCK)
CNN= the usual p-ss on the victims approach.
What’s even funnier is that the terrorists watch CNN. I guess they like the slogan “No Bias, No Bull” LOL
It is not clear from the story how CNN learned of the couple’s exact location.
Yup,.. it was Whore-all doooH - Rivera and it was in Afghanistan.
Whorealdo drew a picture with a stick in the sand revealing troop locations.
He was sent home as a result.
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Just d@mn!
The MSM acts differently, when one of their own is at risk. When a CBC reporter was taken hostage in Afghanistan recently, there was a total news blackout for nearly a month (lifted only when she was released).
They live in their own reality apart from the rest of us. There was some Dilbet cameraman in Iraq that jumped out in the road to get a shot of a column of out tanks comming up the road. The shot ended with the camera hitting the ground. It seems some tanker thought the shoulder mounted video camera looked like a shoulder mounted rocket launcher and shot the guy. Good for the tanker. He was doing his job.
The journalist community was outraged at this (naturally) and jaw-flapped about the tragedy, the war, Bush, etc., but never hinted that a little forethought on the part of the cameraman might have prevented the incident.
As a general operating rule, journalist should not be trusted. (I would, however, let, if not encourage them to run with scissors).
He’s not a “nut.”
He seems a tad obsessed with this deathwatch issue. He should be calling it a newspaper deathwatch. He obviously hasn’t noticed that the millions in lost newspaper circulation has moved to the internet and television.
-PJ
All of the media companies are losing market share and profitability quarter-over-quarter, and aren't likely to ever make any of it back up.
Even with their moves to the internet, they are finding a paltry income from online ads, which is, at best, probably a hundredth of what they were making off ads in print.
The industry's time is expiring, and that is what the threads are all about.
This is nothing new for CNN. They knew all about Saddam’s atrocities, but looked the other way in order to keep their Baghdad office open.
“Some people at CNNLIES should be FIRED over this!”
“Some people at CNNLIES should be FRIED over this!”
There, that’s better...
You obviously didn’t see the results od the last presidential election, the elections for the U.S. Senate , the elections for the House of Representatives and Governors elections. The are more important issues than profit margins of newspapers occcuring in the US.
They used to be the good guys serving the troops and their friends and families back home. Today, they won't even wear a flag lapel pin or call a terrorist a terrorist so as not to offend them.
Capture, remove and detain or shoot on sight. Either way, get them out of the situation so they don't get good people killed.
Terror ping
I'll give you a chance to apologize to him on here.
It’s not just the newspapers, but the television and movies studios, as well.
All are liberal hotbeds, which help, in concert, to elect liberals and make conservatives look unappealing, even if they need to lie. As their income goes down, their influence goes down, too.
Those Deathwatch threads detail the fall of our liberal media complex.
The results of the past election are WHY the threads matter. Didn’t you notice the Obama bias? Even the media, itself, has admitted their overwhelming bias, but didn’t do anything to correct it.
CNN did the same thing about where troops were in Desert Storm—will never forget or forgive as my son was there at the time!
Does this woman and her husband intend to file a lawsuit to CNN and its entities over this?
Hey welcome to FR. Great place, isn’t it??
Not sure, but I do distinctly remember CNN cameras anxiously awaiting US Marines on the beaches of Somalia.
I remember hearing of CNN camera crews in Gulf War 1 being excited that there were bodies to film- and then disappointed that they weren’t American.
As soon as I find a news organization that’s all about who, what, when, where how and why- I will become a loyal customer/viewer/reader. Present actual, real facts, and leave me to draw whatever conclusions I may, irrespective of any political ramifications, and I will be there.
I have yet to find one.
Yes, he did. Reeeeeaaaaaaalllllly pissed off the generals. As I recall....one said, “Get him the f@#$ out of here.”
Their time as profit making entities may be expiring, but as long as they continue their willingness to spout leftist bias, the left will keep them alive and kicking.
They demonstrated their effectiveness Nov 4th.
Oh please, CNN is counting the money the terrorists paid them to broadcast the information.
There is nothing pro-Western about CNN. CNN International especially.
They proudly serve their new anti-Western overlords.
So see, there IS some news that CNN will not report for fear of upsetting their host nation.
Kick the traitors out. They serve enemy governments. I am serious.
There is no protected speech in treason.
To be fair, their full name is Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN.
Boycott the lot of them.
You got that RIGHT !
I saw the newscast you're referring to. It was not anything blatant, but could have been suggestive to someone very well informed. He got his chops busted bad for it.
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