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Did CNN Put Mumbai Terror Victims in Danger By Reporting Their Hiding Places?
Publius' Forum ^ | 12/01/08 | Warner Todd Huston

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."

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: cnn; communistnewsnetwork; islam; mediabias; mediastupidity; mohammedanism; mohammedanism122008; mumbai; mumbaiattacks; nobloodforratings; terrorism
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CNN... Terrorism. Is there too much difference?
1 posted on 12/01/2008 6:14:30 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Can’t let a few innocent lives get in the way of “journalism”.


2 posted on 12/01/2008 6:18:14 AM PST by MNSlim
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Did CNN Put Mumbai Terror Victims in Danger By Reporting Their Hiding Places?

Wouldn't surprise me. Sounds like something they would do.

3 posted on 12/01/2008 6:19:32 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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!!


4 posted on 12/01/2008 6:20:36 AM PST by Batman11
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Why is every public TV that doesn’t isn’t showing sports tuned to CNN? It’s bizarre.


5 posted on 12/01/2008 6:20:42 AM PST by DManA
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Memo to the Welsh couple; Ethics is not part of the curriculum in J school.
6 posted on 12/01/2008 6:23:22 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.....


7 posted on 12/01/2008 6:24:26 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


8 posted on 12/01/2008 6:38:18 AM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Will Geraldo please pick up the white courtesy phone? Thank you.


9 posted on 12/01/2008 6:39:13 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Mobile Vulgus

Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:"So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.
"

10 posted on 12/01/2008 6:39:49 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Mobile Vulgus
Mmmm, South Wales is in er, Wales, not England (pedantic I know but just for the record). :6)
11 posted on 12/01/2008 6:49:52 AM PST by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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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.


12 posted on 12/01/2008 6:57:28 AM PST by indcons
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To: vimto

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....


13 posted on 12/01/2008 7:01:01 AM PST by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've at last found that silly grin!)
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To: Chances Are

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.


14 posted on 12/01/2008 7:13:45 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

If I ever find myself in the middle of a shootout... God help any news crew on scene.


15 posted on 12/01/2008 7:21:14 AM PST by papertyger
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To: Mobile Vulgus

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.


16 posted on 12/01/2008 7:23:52 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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"...a couple that safely escaped the terror attack scolded CNN for it's ethical lapse."

CNN? "Ethical lapse"? That's the understatement of the century!

17 posted on 12/01/2008 7:36:49 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Your grandchildren will live under communism." -Nikita Krushchev)
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To: Diogenesis
Ted Turner: KGB ‘Honorable Place to Work’ (Nov 30, 2008)

"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."

18 posted on 12/01/2008 7:37:18 AM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: DManA

because if they tune it to Fox News channel then those caring, loving, sweet, sensitive, free-speech loving liberals will violently smash it.


19 posted on 12/01/2008 7:57:31 AM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: Savage Beast

Somebody get those folks the names of some REALLY vicious lawyers. CNN needs to sued out existence.


20 posted on 12/01/2008 7:58:25 AM PST by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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