greybeard
07-02-03, 11:21 PM
Unfortunate that the woman got shot, but **it happens sometimes. This from a news report about Gen Mathis' feelings on non-embedded reporters:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33378
General Mathis:
"To the viewers and the readers, the 1st Marine Division was not an anonymous killing machine," he said. "It was an 18-year-old Marine from Anywhere, USA."
Campagna says that although such close ties between media and military tended to discourage critical reporting, not all the reporting about troop actions was flattering.
For instance, he says, an embedded New York Times reporter quizzed a Marine sharpshooter about the killing of an innocent Iraqi woman by his unit, and he got a chillingly blithe reply which he reported in a page one story. "I'm sorry," the sharpshooter was quoted as saying, "but the chick was in the way."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33378
General Mathis:
"To the viewers and the readers, the 1st Marine Division was not an anonymous killing machine," he said. "It was an 18-year-old Marine from Anywhere, USA."
Campagna says that although such close ties between media and military tended to discourage critical reporting, not all the reporting about troop actions was flattering.
For instance, he says, an embedded New York Times reporter quizzed a Marine sharpshooter about the killing of an innocent Iraqi woman by his unit, and he got a chillingly blithe reply which he reported in a page one story. "I'm sorry," the sharpshooter was quoted as saying, "but the chick was in the way."