Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I may be a naive U.S. citizen, but I know of no situation where our > military "Targeted and Killed" journalists on purpose. The press > complained in the last war they had restrictions as to where they > could go, > so this time the journalists were allowed to go where they wanted with the > caution that they were going into the line of fire and therefore could not > be protected. Now it stands to reason that if you are on the battlefield > shooting photos or video and get in the way of fire you have a pretty good > chance of getting killed, by fire or bombs from one side or the other. If > you want this kind of freedom you have to expect to pay the price, this is > a war situation and if you are there you have to take the responsibility > for your own safety. If you are killed by getting in the way this is not > suppression of the press. > They may be referring to the situation during the US invasion of Iraq when a Pentagon spokesman said that non in-bedded journalists should not use satellite phones etc or they would be targeted by US forces. At the time it was seen as a threat to journalists who had chosen not to be in-bedded - one of those "friendly warnings" Corleone style. Whether it was meant like that or not, it was recovered like that. tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html