CNN Reporters are carrying guns for protection,

[mopaul]

just heard they're in a gas line and they've taken up arms to protect themselves.

[1932]

1. Why post this? Not only isn't there a link, but I don't even understand

what you're saying. That sentence makes no sense to me.

A little more information would be helpful so that we can judge the credibility and so that we can collate and contextualize that information.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. From Karl?

[Sewsojm]

3. I heard it too,

I wasn't aware they were CNN reporters but I heard the interview of the woman saying her husband had a gun, they were afraid of being held up for their gas.

[gp]

6. yea it was on "The Situation Report" with Wolf Blitzer

they interviewed a cnn producer thats been waiting since 8am this morning in line for gas, huge lines, people very edgy, she had a gun in the car, thought it would be prudent.

edit: cant remember her location...but it was on the other side of the lake.

[Be Brave]

4. I don't think that was a CNN reporter on the phone.

I think it was a citizen calling in.

[Fescue4u]

5. If they have any sense they would

I sure as hell would be carrying a gun if I were there.

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7. NBC is already protecting their personnel.

From yesterday.

NBC sends armed guards to lawless Gulf Coast

" NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News has sent private security personnel to the increasingly dicey Gulf Coast region to help keep its employees safe while covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The private security officers, usually former soldiers or police, are licensed to carry firearms and are trained to keep the situation under control so that journalists can do their jobs safely. That's becoming increasingly difficult in New Orleans and in Gulfport, Miss., where there aren't enough police or National Guardsmen to keep the streets safe.

News crews have witnessed looting and other crimes as well as lots of gunfire in the days since Hurricane Katrina swept through Monday. Supplies of food, water and fuel are nearly nonexistent, and, in the 90-plus-degree heat, tempers have grown short. CBS News reported that gangs of gun-toting looters were roaming the streets; several television networks reported that New Orleans was pulling 1,500 police from the search-and-rescue mission to deal with looting and lawlessness in the streets.

"We've never been in a situation domestically like this, where the populace has been cut off from the rest of the world and there's no food and water," NBC News VP newsgathering David Verdi said.

It's not unusual for networks to hire security forces. Armed personnel accompany news crews in Iraq and Afghanistan; they've been used domestically for situations like the Los Angeles riots in 1992, when dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured. But NBC News is the first to publicly acknowledge that it had taken such a step."

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[parasim]

8. Not a reporter...

It was a CNN producer talking to a woman that was in line for 6 hours to get gas. The lady said that her husband was worried so he brought a gun a long with them in case anything happened.

CNN breathlessly reported it... then the lady said they're milling around waiting, walked to the nearby Waffle House for food and water... Once Blitzer realized that it wasn't an important story he said something like "as bad as not getting gas has been, there still is a lot worse going on..."

It's this kind of absolute fear-mongering reporting that is not helping anything.

[KittyWampus]

9. CNN Reporters are now all embedded with military just like Iraq

[pretzel4gore]

10. a gun to beat them with

that's only use of a gun for pigmedia 'reporters' just hammer away at the cnnts until the gun's unrecognizable