Posted on 03/04/2022 9:20:16 PM PST by Morgana
The danger journalists face covering the war in Ukraine was shockingly illustrated last night as Sky News released harrowing footage of their team coming under fire.
Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay was hit by a bullet in the lower back while in a car carrying his crew towards Kyiv on Monday.
Two rounds also hit camera operator Richie Mockler in his body armour during the ambush.
Footage shows bullets striking the car and the team screaming as glass smashes around them.
It is thought the attack was carried out by a saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.
After a tense standoff, the team miraculously ran for their lives using a concrete wall for cover before finding shelter in a factory unit.
They were later rescued by Ukrainian police.
The whole crew, including Sky News' Dominique van Heerden and Martin Vowles, are now safe and back in the UK.
The fifth member of the team, local producer Andrii Lytvynenko, is back with his family in Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Talking to people who came back to Okinawa, when they moved 4th Marines back, most NCOs had a remarkably dim view of the press...
The Marines hated CBS, esp. Dan Rather, Morley Safer, and possibly Don Webster, among others, esp. In IV Corp. Got this from other good, honest journalists, including some of the biggest names in Vietnam reporting. I had lunch with them at the Majestic Hotel in Saigon where I stayed as well as at the Royal Hotel in Phnom Pen in Cambodia.
I recall seeing historical news reports after the battle of Ia Drang Valley (We were soldiers...).
One of those famous reporters (Morely Safer???) is talking about it and ends the story with something like “In spite of the victory, it remains to be seen how long the mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters of these boys and men that lost their lives will continue to support a war in this far off land.”
This was after the first major battle, and a victory at that!
FR Pro Putinist traitors next.
I don’t recall that.
I didn’t pay much attention to the news in my youth.
From a distance, in a car, their cameras could be mistaken for anti-tank aiming sights.
Antifa tend to put "press" patches on their organizers.
“Some say” blah blah blah opinion opinion opinion
It’d be easier to show an Illegal Immigrant court date document.
Home free...!
Exactly right. What the hell makes the press think they are so special?
If your in a battle zone it makes you an enemy combatant. Especially if your a low life “urinalist”. /spit
I was young then too.. didn’t understand politics, but I do remember the death of a cameraman. It didn’t shape me back then, but when I went through the military, that is when I started paying attention.
This just in from Clown World. Film at eleven.
I am sick of ‘journalists’, deliberately putting themselves in harms way, and then reporting on how they are ‘in harms way’.
Got news for you idiots, you were sent there to report on what is going on, not what is happening to you - NOBODY cares if you get shot at. Do your job, and report the news, stop glamorizing yourselves - you are supposed to be the reporter of news, not the subject of the news.
I hate the term ‘journalist’....just too precious and full of pretension. I don’t want to read some libtard’s diary.
What happened to reporters?
The purpose prose continues: a “ saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad” or an “assassination squad”? Which was it?
Text: It is thought the attack was carried out by a saboteur Russian reconnaissance squad.
This is why fake news is called fake news.
COLLEGE
Stay in Portland...
Oh poor Russia. Poor Russian troops. Peddle that bs some place else.
Certainly the thugs in Chicago get more range time. Good Lord dozens of murders every weekend some of those Chicago hoods must be marksmen.
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