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Speaking of journalists getting too involved in the action, here's "CBS Cameraman Could Be Iraqi Insurgent," from NewsMax, with thanks to EPG:
A cameraman carrying CBS press credentials was detained in Iraq earlier this week on suspicion of insurgent activity, the U.S. military said Friday.The cameraman suffered minor injuries Tuesday during a battle between U.S. soldiers and suspected insurgents, the military said. He was standing next to an alleged insurgent who was killed during the shootout, the statement said.
The military issued a statement then saying the cameraman was shot because his equipment was mistaken for a weapon.
But on Friday, the military said the cameraman was detained because there was probable cause to believe he posed "an imperative threat to coalition forces."
"He is currently detained and will be processed as any other security detainee," the statement said.
CBS News spokeswoman Leigh Farris said, "We're looking into the situation."
Posted by Robert at April 9, 2005 7:57 AM
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Morning all!
Mr. Spencer, that was NewsMax. Can we be sure of their credibility? :P
Off to yard sales...
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at April 9, 2005 8:03 AM
CBS is a threat to America. Treasonous bastards.
Posted by: Pegcity at April 9, 2005 10:40 AM
After the Dan Rather fiasco and the way CBS tried to fraudulously influence presidential elections,i wouldn`t be surprised if one of their people joined with the terrorists.
Posted by: adela at April 10, 2005 1:05 AM
If the US military is right on this one and the photographer was not just someone in the wrong place at the wrong time, I'm not going to utter a peep or shed a tear if the photographer does some hard jail time. While I'm all for freedom of speech and press, there's something radically wrong with the journalistic profession today. It's said that in spite of French "Good Samaritan Laws", the papparazzi who pursued Dodi Fayed and Lady Diana stopped to photograph the mangled car and the injured and dying people long before anyone thought of calling an ambulence. A dozen or so years ago, there was also a prize-winning photo of a Sudanese girl collapsing of starvation with a vulture sitting in the background waiting for her to die; and it's said that the journalist who took it, after the shot, leaned against a tree to smoke a cigarette, even though he was only a few hundred yards from the gate of a refugee camp and strong enough to carry a nearly-starved child the necessary distance (even under an African sun). Far from being the conscience of society, journalists are often no more than another bunch of morally challenged nobodies who can't think beyond the next buck.
Posted by: Kepha at April 10, 2005 2:05 AM
Don't even start with aljazzera , they are active in terrorism imo. How do they know where bombings are going to be just in time to film them?
Posted by: Pegcity at April 10, 2005 3:21 AM
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