It Takes a BBC Reporter to Cover Obama's War

[Mari333]

http://www.vbs.tv/de/watch/vbs-news/obama-s-war

[vegiegals]

1. "Obama's War - Episode 1 of 31" I will have to bookmark

for later viewing. Thanks for the post.

[noamnety]

2. I'll have to watch later as well

But that sounds about right. In 2006, the BBC stayed with us, camping with us and eating with us for a week solid, while the US media did occasional 15 minute press conferences. The BBC ran a 20 minute documentary style piece on the IVAW in the gulf coast.

At one point the US media did a press conference - and instead of interviewing the US soldiers, I remember them interviewing the BBC reporters. (!)

I was appalled by that, and I remember the BBC reporter saying in that interview that he had been all over the world covering everything from wars to apartheid, and he had never seen a place where the police were so hostile to reporters. (He got ticketed at one point on that trip for leaning against a car - even though he was trying to tell police it was his own car.)