US military 'pressuring' journalists

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1191548,00.html

US military 'pressuring' journalists

Patrick Barrett
Wednesday April 14, 2004


Al-Jazeera: accused of taking an 'anti-coalition stance'

The US military has been accused of threatening the media covering the conflict in Iraq and pressuring journalists into presenting a one-sided picture of events.
Al-Jazeera, the Arab TV channel, made the accusations after a US army spokesman, Brigadier General Kimmitt, accused the station and the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel, of taking an "anti-coalition" stance in their reporting.

The already fractious relationship between the US military in Iraq and Arab media has been made more difficult by pictures of wounded civilians within the besieged town of Falluja. The American administration in Iraq accused al-Jazeera of exaggerating the number of civilian casualties and helping to boost anti-coalition sentiment.

The US marine commander in charge of Falluja has said the majority of the estimated 600 people killed in the four-day conflict were legitimate targets, saying, "95% of those were military age males that were killed in the fighting". However al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya have repeatedly shown pictures of women and children among the dead and injured.
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,...that reality would make both the US and its military "look bad".

We HAVE to be the "good guys" and when reality dictates otherwise we HAVE to filter that reality otherwise we will APPEAR to be "bad".

Like this....

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/04/12/falluja_graves,0.jpg

Sunni Muslim Mohammed Ahmad Ali walks among some of the 125 graves in a Falluja soccer field that has been hastily converted into a cemetery


... Thank God for the brave journalists and camerapersons who show the truth!

it was pathetic.
kimmitt acted the complete barbarian fool.
this guy represents the worst america has to offer.

towards the invading forces. I thought everyone knew that.

I thought this war had the most journalists ever, covering absolutely everything and imbedded with all the units, including those at Fallujah. Over the weekend I saw one of the briefings with Kimmitt and that British clown and a journalist (American) kept saying CENTCOM wouldn't allow him to imbed with the troops at Fallujah. Why are we bombarding this city so heavily? Why were those Blackwater employees in unarmormed vehicles alone in the middle of town right after hostilities? Why did the press break their "see no evil" rule in Iraq and show their remains? None of this makes any sense.

you don't have to any farther than Kill'em Kimmitt to find an "inbred".

hmmm, maybe cause they were mostly the victims of the firefight Gen Moran

What, does this guy think that al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya run around with bodies of dead women, children and the elderly so they can toss them into the mix for photos?

Now that's creative thinking!

of the world can't be controlled like it is here in the U.S.