A couple from South Wales, England, are claiming that CNN had broadcast their position compromising their safety while they hid from the Islamic terrorists that roamed the streets and hotels of Mumbai, India killing tourists as they went. Posted on 12/01/2008 6:14:30 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
A couple from South Wales, England, are claiming that CNN had broadcast their position compromising their safety while they hid from the Islamic terrorists that roamed the streets and hotels of Mumbai, India killing tourists as they went.
WalesOnline posted a story headlined, "We thought we were safe... then CNN stepped in!," wherein a couple that safely escaped the terror attack scolded CNN for it's ethical lapse.
A SOUTH Wales couple caught in the Mumbai terror attacks claimed last night that CNN put their lives at risk by broadcasting where they were.
Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.
Mrs. Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
The woman claimed that she was told not to talk to the press by the British government but felt that this issue was too important to ignore. "But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were."
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Can’t let a few innocent lives get in the way of “journalism”.
Wouldn't surprise me. Sounds like something they would do.
Hostages smostages, don’t you know we’re trying to cover a news story dammit! We at CNN can’t let a little thing like your safety get in the way. Don’t you know who we are?
Yeah, we know who you are!!
Why is every public TV that doesn’t isn’t showing sports tuned to CNN? It’s bizarre.
Communist News Network
Clinton News Network
you can change a letter....DNN
Dhimmi News Network
its all the same and we know what they are.....
CNN covered up reports of abuse and torture under Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau in the 1990s.
They are a treasonous news organization. They choose to hold some news stories and run with others. Even when lives are at stake.
NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. Boycott Time-Lies-Warner-Turner-CNN.
Will Geraldo please pick up the white courtesy phone? Thank you.
Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:"So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
Excellent point - friends/family of mine were among those who were attacked in Mumbai. I refrained from writing about them until I was sure they were rescued/safe 3 days later.
Do you think that would make an iota of a difference to the terrorists looking for Westerners to kill?
Pedantic, I know, but just for the record...
CA....
I remember watching tne hostage situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics. All the news networks showed the SWAT team on the roof of the Olympic Village. Black September was watching it too.
If I ever find myself in the middle of a shootout... God help any news crew on scene.
All the a days work for the Communist News Network. They put us, our Nation and the world at risk by not covering Obama’s negatives.
CNN? "Ethical lapse"? That's the understatement of the century!
"And the KGB, I think, was an honorable place to work. And it, it gave people in the former Soviet Union, a communist country, an opportunity to do something important and worthwhile."
because if they tune it to Fox News channel then those caring, loving, sweet, sensitive, free-speech loving liberals will violently smash it.
Somebody get those folks the names of some REALLY vicious lawyers. CNN needs to sued out existence.
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