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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