Today's bombing footage...who is the cameraman hiding from?

[Atman]

They've shown it repeatedly on CNN. In the beginning of the clip, you can see a soldier waving at the camera lens from several feet away, approaching the camera. Then a quick-cut, and the next seen the camera is obviously peering from behind or inside some ruined structure. In following scenes, too, the camera position is from a vantage point of in-hiding. I don't think I'd have given it a second thought were it not for that first part of the clip, with the soldier waving off the camera man. We KNOW Bush is limiting the reporting of Official Bad Stuff before he steals the election (here, not the one there). So now, like everything else even tangentially related to Bush, I am suspect. I think the footage being aired, while in and of itself nothing more noteworthy than the story it covers, would seem to indicate that our concerns about military media censorship aren't unfounded.

I'm not trying to put a big tin-foily spin on this, nothing that serious. I just can't help but question anything with this admin's stamp of approval on it.

[CatWoman]

1. self-edited

[jean]

2. I haven't seen it yet but say 'Bravo' to that camera crew

[HysteryDiagnosis]

How many journalists...

So now, like everything else even tangentially related to Bush, I am suspect. I think the footage being aired, while in and of itself nothing more noteworthy than the story it covers, would seem to indicate that our concerns about military media censorship aren't unfounded.<<

Journalists have had a pretty bad go of things lately... and yes... it did look like the soldier was making a threatening gesture to the cameraman....

http://foi.missouri.edu/jouratrisk/mediacasualties.html
>>Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish network Telecinco, also lost his life when a US tank allegedly opened fire on the hotel.


An al-Jazeera cameraman, Tareq Ayyoub, died and one of the channel's journalists disappeared when a coalition bombing raid hit the Arabic TV station's Baghdad office yesterday.


BBC translator Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed was killed in the worst "friendly fire" incident of the war so far on Sunday, which also left BBC correspondent John Simpson with minor shrapnel wounds.<<

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. How many journalists...

So now, like everything else even tangentially related to Bush, I am suspect. I think the footage being aired, while in and of itself nothing more noteworthy than the story it covers, would seem to indicate that our concerns about military media censorship aren't unfounded.<<

Journalists have had a pretty bad go of things lately... and yes... it did look like the soldier was making a threatening gesture to the cameraman....

http://foi.missouri.edu/jouratrisk/mediacasualties.html
>>Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish network Telecinco, also lost his life when a US tank allegedly opened fire on the hotel.


An al-Jazeera cameraman, Tareq Ayyoub, died and one of the channel's journalists disappeared when a coalition bombing raid hit the Arabic TV station's Baghdad office yesterday.


BBC translator Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed was killed in the worst "friendly fire" incident of the war so far on Sunday, which also left BBC correspondent John Simpson with minor shrapnel wounds.<<