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Iraq 'Embedded' Reporter Praises Troops
Delaware Online ^
| 09/06/2003
| Sean O'Sullivan
Posted on 09/06/2003 6:57:27 AM PDT by Ex-Dem
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:01:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod said embedding reporters with troops during the Iraq war was "a huge success."
The media and the public got an honest, firsthand, often live, account of the war and soldiers had their stories told, something Axelrod said did not happen in the first Gulf War.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: embeddedreporters; embeds; iraq; media; mediaunbias; troops; warcorrespondents
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posted on
09/06/2003 6:57:27 AM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
*ping
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posted on
09/06/2003 6:59:31 AM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
(Anti-Quagmire Alert)
To: Ex-Dem
thanks for the posting.
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:00:08 AM PDT
by
morque2001
(life is a trajedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.)
To: Ex-Dem; Ragtime Cowgirl
God bless him for getting the truth out.I was glued to the TV when embeds were on.
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:02:20 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: Ex-Dem
What do you expect? The reporter was from CBS News.
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:15:39 AM PDT
by
Doe Eyes
To: Doe Eyes
I thought he did a good job as opposed to the bunch at the studio.
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:19:31 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: Doe Eyes
Do you mean the part about his Humvee dying?
Or the fact that he's praising our troops (which I don't think you would expect from a CBS guy)?
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:20:01 AM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
(Anti-Quagmire Alert)
To: Ex-Dem
They were saved when an ABC News crew saw what happened, pulled up behind, and used their truck to push the crippled CBS vehicle to safety. Perhaps the ABC News crew was actually trying to push the CBS vehicle over the edge and into the drink. ;-)
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:27:33 AM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops And Their Families.)
To: jigsaw
LOL! Or maybe trying to smash their satellite phone banks and broadcast equipment.
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:29:41 AM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
(Anti-Quagmire Alert)
To: Ex-Dem
CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod said embedding reporters with troops during the Iraq war was "a huge success." The media and the public got an honest, firsthand, often live, account of the war and soldiers had their stories told ...
Hard-core Leftists don't consider it a success because they could not spin it negatively -- you know, inserting stories about rape and pillage.
Mostly it made it impossible for the press of our 'allies' in Europe to spin the military engagement as a disaster, although God knows they tried.
I had a modicum of trust for the press before the war. Now I have none. In particular I see that the foreign press is so massively biased that its audiences cannot help but be manipulated by them, even in supposedly free places like Europe.
To: Ex-Dem
Maybe that ABC News vehicle was being driven by Peter Jennings.. you know, those Canadians can't drive for sh*t...
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posted on
09/06/2003 7:35:49 AM PDT
by
Paradox
To: Ex-Dem
I think this was a great success- the reporters had an opportunity to get to know the troops as people, and to experience the same hardhips/dangers they did. Kind of like takinga reporter to the gun range and letting them shoot.
To: MEG33
Thank you Mr. Axelrod for telling the truth about our great American military!
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posted on
09/06/2003 1:04:41 PM PDT
by
maxwellp
(Throw the U.N. in the garbage where it belongs.)
To: maxwellp
Indeed!
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posted on
09/06/2003 1:11:51 PM PDT
by
MEG33
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