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Showing posts with label media coverage of war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media coverage of war. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

New York Times Headline Tars Our Soldiers


A Beast in the Heart of Every Fighting Man -- New York Times

Last May, in the small village of Qualaday in western Kandahar Province, a young Army lieutenant and his sergeants met with several elders to discuss the recent killing of a local mullah. The desert heat was fierce, and the elders led the soldiers across their village to sit under the shade of nearby trees. Three days had passed since they were last there; during that interval the place appeared to have been abandoned. When they sat down, some of the soldiers removed their helmets, and a few elders their sandals and turbans. A freelance photographer was permitted to make an audio recording of the discussion. The lieutenant wanted to know where everyone had gone. One elder explained: People left because they were afraid.

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My Comment: On a day when 9 Americans are murdered in Afghanistan, the New York Times comes out with this hit piece on the American military. The title that they use tars every soldier who has served by linking the rogue actions of a unit that randomly murdered some Afghans with a crime that the overwhelming majority of our soldiers would never do. But does the New York Times differentiate this .... of course not.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Attacks Against Journalists In The Middle East Reaching Unprecedented Levels

Journalists flee a bombing raid in Libya

Intense Attacks On Media In Middle East Unrest -- Yahoo News/Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Journalists have been suppressed in popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in more than 500 attacks, some of them deadly, according to a media rights watchdog.

Mohamed Abdel Dayem, program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists in the Middle East and North Africa, said the number of attacks on the media in the region since the start of the year was "unprecedented."

"This hasn't happened before, not with this intensity and not with this frequency," he said.

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My Comment: Journalists are no longer perceived as being neutral in covering war zones and political conflicts. Because of this perceived bias, they have become fair game.

Restrepo Director Tim Hetherington And Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Photographer Chris Hondros Killed In Misurata



Two Journalists, Including Restrepo Director, Killed In Misurata -- The National

MISURATA, LIBYA // On Saturday evening, Tim Hetherington, the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo, and Chris Hondros, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer, hitched a ride to this besieged city on the Ionian Spirit, where they prepared sandwiches for refugees and talked about their plans back home. On Wednesday evening, the ship ferried the bodies of the two renowned journalists back to Benghazi.

The two journalists were fatally wounded during an attack by Col Muammar Qaddafi’s forces against rebels in Misurata. Two other photojournalists suffered injuries, some critical, according to doctors at the hospital where they were treated.

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More News On The Deaths Of Tim Hetherington And Chris Hondros

Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros are killed documenting Libya fighting -- Washington Post
Two photographers killed in Misrata mortar attack -- Euronews
Tim Hetherington: 1970 – 2011 -- BBC
Tim Hetherington's Courage Under Fire -- ABC
World News: British photographer killed by mortar attack in Libya -- The Scotsman
”Restrepo” director Tim Hetherington killed in Libya -- Reuters
Tim Hetherington: Talented photographer, true gentleman -- CNN
In pictures: Tim Hetherington -- BBC
A War Photographer Who Stayed With His Subject -- Wall Street Journal
Photojournalist Chris Hondros remembered -- USA Today