RE: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive IraqCampaignmedal

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Right...That's what I thought...My point was that I find it
inappropriate for independent journalists - which I'm sure you were and
are - to receive medals from any government - unless it's some sort of
medal awarded very sparingly to journalists who exemplify, through the
accuracy and independence of their reporting, the highest level of
journalism... (and that sure ain't gonna happen, at least not in Bush
Country.) 

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B.D.- I was the media reporting on the troops--Kevin

> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:31:43 -0500
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq 
> Campaignmedal
> 
> Kevin Argue wrote that, having spent time covering Canadian troops in 
> Bosnia, he may qualify for a 'time in theater' peace keeping medal, 
> and then write...
> 
> "After all the civilian
>> contractors working for the military in Bosnia and Afghanistan are 
>> getting them."
> 
> Which leads me to ask rhetorically - were you "working for the 
> military," as those civilians were, or were you there as part of the 
> media, as a theoretically impartial observer reporting back to the 
> citizens of Canada on what their military was doing in Bosnia?
> 
> Those "civilian contractors" are, in effect, members of the military -

> they are mercenaries, whether armed or unarmed, individuals paid to 
> aid the military. So if they get medals, what's the problem? But 
> journalists are not paid to aid the military - they are paid to report

> the truth as they see it. Big difference.
> 
> B. D.
> 
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