Embedded, now media gagged

[dArKeR]

Baghdad - The United States military, in what appeared to be a significant shift in its relations with the news media, announced on Thursday that reporters, photographers and television crews would be forbidden from accompanying the military on some operations.

Major Josslyn Aberle, spokesperson for the 4th Infantry Division at Tikrit, 200 kilometres north of Baghdad, said the order restricting media access had been issued by the Coalition Joint Task Force in the capital.

The spokesperson for the task force in the capital, Major William Thurmond, said there was a new order restricting coverage in certain circumstances but that Aberle had misinterpreted it.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1402150,00.html

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1. Coverage will only be restricted

when we are shooting or harrassing civilians--so what's the problem?

[QuietStorm]

2. Like coverage so far has been open season?

:eyes:

[jpak]

3. Bush's Secret Privatized Petro War

Who will write the real history?

[ewagner]

4. Ding, ding,ding!

WOW! The bells just went off again.

Up to this point, the coverage has been all about the military operations and the infamous "search for Saddam". But do you know what we HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT?

We haven't seen or heard a single solitary word about Haliburton or Brown and Root activities in the country. What are they doing? What are they SUPPOSED TO BE DOING? This raises the question:

Was there an embargo on news about what these American companies are doing in-country?

edit: keyboard can't spell

[gratuitous]

5. Criminals don't like witnesses

That's why they commit their crimes under cover of darkness, or in isolation. If you have someone there watching, it's highly inconvenient later when the crime comes to light and the authorities start asking a bunch of nosy questions.