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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaign medal
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:43:29 +0100 (MET)
References: <00b201c3fa6a$fe8f08d0$6401a8c0@CCA4A5EF37E11E>

> that accepting the citations is appropriate.) But the idea of a
> government giving a 'campaign' ribbon or medal to all the journalists
> who covered a campaign is really repugnant...The media is NOT supposed
> to be an arm of the military.

Agreed, of course.

The point here is that the government DID regard them as part of the
campaign. Whether they intended to or not, they did exactly what the
invasion powers wanted them to do and are being "rewarded".

I suspect other invasion powers feel the same way but are tactfully
silent.

Daniel
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