20 Arab Journalists Just Walked Out on Powell

[NJCher]

Being reported now on my local NPR. Melinda Liew (sp?) (slate.com) reporting. Apparently in protest of their colleagues being killed.


Cher

[librechik]

1. good

he needs to see the product of his treachery--

[JohnLocke]

2. Journalists shouldn't do that.

Diplomats, sure, but this undermines the credibility of reporters.

[Raster]

3. you're right, journalists shouldn't walk out, however....

...EVERYONE knows ANYTHING coming out of powell's mouth is slanted fiction anyway. He has a script he adheres to, irregardless of the truth. Remember "yellow-cake"?

[TinaTyson]

4. You have to stay "objective" even when your colleagues are

being killed?

Maybe this act of civil disobedience will be published instead of ignored. Seems like a solid tactic to me.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Walked out on Powell? - well they won't miss anything valuable

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It'll be a repeat of "terror" - "your with us or against us"

blah blah blah

if only the WORLD would stop listening to Powell and the rest of the gang

-PERIOD!

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Story with link

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Journalists walk out of Powell conference

Simon Jeffery and agencies
Friday March 19, 2004

Arab journalists today walked out of a Baghdad press conference given by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, in protest at the shooting dead of two of their colleagues by US soldiers.

Ali al-Khatib, of al-Arabiya television, died from his injuries in a Baghdad hospital today. His death came the day after his cameraman, Ali Abdelaziz, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head after US troops had opened fire on the pair's car at a checkpoint.

A representative of the Iraqi media read out a statement at the start of the news conference, condemning the killing, as Mr Powell and Paul Bremer, the head of the US-led coalition provisional authority, looked on. The journalists then stood up and left the news conference