Posted on 04/05/2002 10:08:52 AM PST by Libloather
The journalists on 9-11 were covering a demonstration.
Let's look! Israel demands that an area around Arafat’s compound be a closed military zone to keep Arafat from sending signals to the rest of the terrorist groups. Israel announces yesterday anybody violating that zone will be arrested and deported. The next day a convoy of armored TV Jeeps tries to force its way to the building only stopped by a Jeep that is actually hit by the front convoy vehicle. The Israelis tell the men to leave and they do not. The IDF then uses civil crowd control devices, i.e. stun grenades and rubber bullets to drive the TV convoy back.
However The Palestinians kidnap a TV camera man, threatening his life if the News broadcasts film it has. The News returns the film, then the camera man is released. He was held hostage for two days. The film is returned after it is censored. The other case is a journalist kidnapped and executed for being a Jew.
Enforcing the law, vs. kidnapping, extortion and murder? Nah, not morally the equivalent, not even close. But a armchair terrorist would not be able to tell that because they cannot tell the difference between law and lawlessness. Look it up, it is called being evil.
You may join in pounding sand next to Hit-n-Run. Please wear the dunce cap.
Now there is a great headline.
Seems the press only want to take pictures of Arafat. No need while they are riding around in Ramallah to take any film, how about pictures of the Palestinians attacking the Jewish troops? Nah not news. How about film of how the heck Jews are able to take over a Terrorist territory, under fire, capture 700 known "activists" or murder suspects and have only 15 casualties that are "civilians" all armed most wearing military fatigues and all males from the age of 15-35? Nah, that would be REPORTING, they drive into the areas with the script already written. THAT IS WHY YOU GET NO REPORTING OF WHAT IS GOING ON, BECAUSE IT IS HIGHLY FAVORABLE TO THE JEWS.
You think cluster bombing cities might just cause a, ur, civilian casualty or two? I did not see all the Press in Afganistan interviewing everybody inside the 1200 yard circle making sure every one was a combatant. A cluster bomb shatters concrete for 600 yards from the point of impact. Think it might KILL someone?
You need to change your name to Egregious Hypocrite. That is a 120 football field sized area. The actual kill ring is a bit bigger. Where was your outrage then? When the reporters were not allowed to wander around in Iraq, but briefed from a tent, where was your outrage then? Could it be true that your outrage is that the Jews are kicking ass and taking names? Funny Allah said the Arabs would win, does Allah lie too? Please resume pounding sand armchair terrorist.
Just curious - who are these goofballs?
But you will back it anyway. A might bitter little hatred you got going there Philbin.
I don't pretend to know as much as some people here. But I spent 5 1/2 years in U.S. Naval Aviation, including six months in a war zone. I was trained and authorized to drop nuclear weapons. What about you?
Why do the Americans keep TV crews out of War zones?
For the same reason the IDF does--to prevent embarrassment, because they can't order them around, because they might catch on film something that the military would just as soon not have the world see, because they don't want viewers to start feeling sorry for the enemy, because reporters talk to both sides, because reporters have casual attitudes about drugs and sex and tend to question authority, because the reporters' stories sometimes contradict the accounts given out by government spokesmen, because when reporters get deliberately shot by the military their publishers angrily accuse government officials at dinner parties.
I agree that some reporters, especially television cameramen, have delusions of grandeur, no appreication of the dangers of combat and can inject themselves into combat areas in a way that could endanger troops and everyone else. No one needs that or reporters who disclose military movements that could aid the enemy. But a solitary print reporter with nothing but a notebook is no danger to anyone. And when such a reporter is willing to risk his life to bring me the unfiltered news of what is really going on, I'm grateful and respectful and I don't rejoice when he gets shot.
Pound sand.
I do pound sand when I see how many people here are content to have all their news filtered through military censors and official spokesmen. It irks them so much to see news that contradicts their current worldview they'd rather not have any news at all.
I agree that some reporters, especially television cameramen, have delusions of grandeur, no appreication of the dangers of combat and can inject themselves into combat areas in a way that could endanger troops and everyone else. No one needs that or reporters who disclose military movements that could aid the enemy. But a solitary print reporter...
can inject themselves into combat areas in a way that could endanger troops and everyone else. No one needs that or reporters who disclose military movements that could aid the enemy. But a solitary print reporter with nothing but a notebook is no danger to anyone.
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