Western journalists quit Falluja

[Englander]

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1346820,00.html

>>Only a handful of independent journalists remain in Falluja after the Sunday Times' Hala Jaber left ahead of the assault by American and Iraqi forces.

>>The few reporters left in Falluja are mainly Iraqi journalists and include two stringers for Reuters Television. But the absence of western reporters has raised questions over the ability of major news organisations to accurately report the assault on the city and its consequences.

>> Rodney Pinder, the director of the International News Safety Institute, said journalists' movements in Iraq were severely restricted.

>>"Some people are asking how can we cover this because foreign reporters by and large unless they are embedded are having to stay within the green zone," he said.<<

[riverwalker]

1. the genocide will not be televised

but if it's not on video, then it didn't happen, right?
<sarcasm>

[Judi Lynn]

2. This is horrid. Bush has everything just the way he wants it.

No real witnesses who might relate what has happened in our name. From the Guardian article:

Dhia Najim, an Iraqi cameraman filming for Reuters Television, was killed in Ramadi last week. The US military claimed he was killed during a gunfight between marines and insurgents, a claim that was rejected by Reuters chiefs.

So far 57 news media, journalists and support staff have been killed since the start of the war 19 months ago.

"It is quite clearly one of the bloodiest in modern times," said the Pinder. "When you think that 70 journalists were killed covering the entire Vietnam war, then it is a measure of how dangerous this conflict is."
(snip)

Thanks for the post.

[DBoon]

3. Wasn't this used in central Africa?

The faction committing genocide knew that if they made it unsafe for journalists, the press would leave and they would have a free hadn to commit atrocities with no world publicity? There was a deliberate effort to murder journalists so as to ensure they all left.

[KDLarsen]

4. The wonders of embedded journalists

:eyes:

The only thing those "journalists" are in bed with, is the Devil.