Deja vu all over again: Destroying Journalism in Order to Save It

[live love laugh]

http://www.prwatch.org/spin

Source: Miami Herald, March 10, 2007

While fleeing an ambush in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers reportedly opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians and then destroyed photos and video taken at the scene by freelance journalists.

Destroying the evidence was necessary, a military official explained later, to protect "investigative integrity" because photos or video taken by "untrained people" might "capture visual details that are not as they originally were." He added, "We are completely committed to a free and independent press, and we hope that we can help encourage this tradition in places where new and free governments are taking root."

Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll remained unconvinced. "In democratic societies," she noted, "legitimate journalists are allowed to work without having their equipment seized and their images deleted."



Remember when the same thing happened to an Italian jornalists in Iraq a few years ago?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Yep war is peace

and slavery is freedom kind of stuff

[live love laugh]

3. We will never get the truth about this war whether through journalists

or from the administration.

[lligrd]

2. Jheez, Who Would Fall For This BS

Oh yeah, my neighbors. This should raise alarms all over but I fear people will justify it instead.