CNN Correspondent Goes Ballistic Over Fox News Libya/Human Shield Report

CNN Correspondent Goes Ballistic Over Fox News Libya/Human Shield Repor
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CNN correspondent Nic Robertson has a bone or two to pick with Fox News, which reported today that he and other journalists were used by the Libyan Ministry of Information as human shields, in a successful bid to block a coming, second attack on a compound in Tripoli, supposedly controlled by Qaddafi.

"This allegation is outrageous and it's absolutely hypocritical. When you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from a dictatorship here," Robertson told Wolf Blitzer. "You don't expect it from the other journalists."

Fox claims their own correspondent, Steve Harrigan, declined to accept the invitation from the Libyans for fear of being used as a propaganda tool, and perhaps a human shield. But Robertson claims Fox did indeed send an employee on the trip -- not a regular news guy -- and that Harrigan has been asleep on the job since hostilities began.

"I see him more times at breakfast than out on trips with government officials here," Robertson said. "So for them to say and call this -- to say they didn't go and for them to call this and say this was government propaganda to hold us there as human shields when they didn't even leave the hotel ... is ridiculous."



video at link



CNN's Nic Robertson rebuts Fox News claims that news crews were lured into being human shields for Moammar Gadhafi.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/03/21/tsr.robertson.libya.fox.claims.cnn?hpt=C2

I'm not too shocked.

Not news that Fox is lying. Ho hum.

Well, actually no, not really.

FOX is a piece of shit news and Wolf caters to them. "We're the only network showing Bachmann's State of the Union rebuttal." <---I'll never forget the pride in his voice.

The real journalists are getting assassinated and taken.

Ali Hassan Al Jaber was a cameraman but qualified as a journalist by all accounts.

I didn't mean to leave anyone out. So many 'civilians' have lost their lives.

If I can collect the 17 remaining brain cells I have I may post a thread naming those who've died doing 'civilian' work in the war zones.

Anyone having this information please feel free...

And Dog help the country mired in revolution, but lacking a decent spa - no coverage.

kudos to Robertson for further exposing Faux News for what they are and their 'breakfast only' reporter. :rofl:

Robertson :yourock:

He called Faux news people...journalists.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

But then of course Libya does have palms.

the lies and propaganda pouring from the network.

I would be plenty pissed.

If they truly thought it was going to be a human shield situation, it appears they were willing
to sacrifice the poor employee who didn't have a clue.

:eyes:

I rec'd it at 18, it stayed at 18.

You might keep in mind that this is a democratic discussion board, and people may rec or unrec as they see fit. Them's the rules.
You might also keep in mind that when you post regarding unrecs and nothing else, you effectively divert discussion from the topic of the OP.

Fox News is a contradiction in terms.

Shame on FOX reporters!

Sean over there to do a live interview. :rofl:

If he's :scared: he can take O'Reilly with him for company. :)

Fox does not want to see one of their "men" piss his pants on camera.

What's actually happening won't change what they "report"

K&R

Their field reporters have learned well from higher ups.

They'll report anything that makes the GOP look good and the Democrats bad.
10+ years doing this.
They have no shame.

Mr. Robertson wishes he had the freedom to lie like the Foxholes.

for that matter...someone needs to shutdown Foxnews and dismantle the Lies Machine that is hurting our country 24/7. Someday an ADULT will come along and change the things that hurt our nation and its people.