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Well, exactly....like any one of these journalists were gonna get the 'golden goose egg' of stories there with minders and the g'ment trailing them everywhere. Why bother! If they were there to see the city fall....well....that seems legit.

The CNN people though knew about this for years and just went happily along with the situation.....GRRRRRRRRRR.....

"...I felt the same way about the reporters at the Palestine Hotel!! They had minders limiting what they could report so WHAT IN THE HELL GOOD WAS THAT??!!..."

How true. I never watch CNN, so I don't know how they reported the conflict and the events that led up to it. But I did see repeated live reports on FNC from stringers who were stationed in Iraq. They were typically British, presumably working for Sky TV, and moonlighting for Fox.

Anyway, prior to the beginning of hostilities, they reported, to a woman, how all the Iraqis they spoke to were against the war, were preparerd to die for Saddam and were diligently preparing for a hard fight. Of course, all these conversations took place with the Ba'ath minder lurking in the background, undoubtedly with a notebook in his hand taking names and notes.

How could these people call themselves journalists? They certainly knew that they were participating in a propaganda chirade intended specifically to prop up the evil and corrupt Ba'athist regime. And yet they played along willingly.

Why? Why? Why? To get the story? Some story, a pack of lies in defense of a tyrant. To advance their careers? Maybe. Because Ba'athist propaganda was what the "right" people back home wanted to hear, that the reporters themselves wanted so desperately to be true (are you listening Robert Fiske!!!!)? Yes. Most definitely, yes.

The mere thought of these cretins (most certainly complicit in the deaths of many innocents) makes my blood run cold.