In Baghdad, NBC Comes Under Fire, Twice [will boil your blood]

Washington Post excerpted, hit link for full story ^ | 11/10/3 | Howard Kurtz

[NativeNewYorker]

It was a world exclusive for NBC's Jim Miklaszewski, the only television reporter able to show footage of the devastating attack on a Baghdad hotel that narrowly missed Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

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... Gary Thatcher, communications chief for the U.S. occupation authority [said,] "Instead of rendering or summoning aid, they focused on gathering video footage of people in agonizingly painful situations . . .

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Says Miklaszewski..."Our impression was that this was an attempt to censor the news. This event shot holes in the administration's insistence that everything was going well in Baghdad."

[NativeNewYorker]

That's right. Helping the wounded would mean helping W, and we can't do that, he said.

[pfflier]

This event shot holes in the administration's insistence that everything was going well in Baghdad."

This is NBCs attempt to repeat Cronkite's comments about Tet.

[Maceman]

This event shot holes in the administration's insistence that everything was going well in Baghdad.

I don't believe that anyone in the administration has ever said that "everything" is going well in Baghdad.

So this is factual reporting how?

[Blood of Tyrants]

"We had a JOB to do."

A job. Just like the abortion doctors, huh?

[HamiltonJay]

Cameramen/Photographers are pretty warped people when you think about it anyway. There morality (or whatever you want to call it) dictates it is more important to document for posterity the events around them then to act and alter the events... even if it would save someones life.

Pretty messed up if you asked me, but that's how they are trained and think.

How many cameramen made sure they photoed that lawyer getting attacked, yet, not one of htem put down their camera to help apprehend the guy after his gun was emptied and he was walking away.

[NativeNewYorker]

I actually understand the "job" part...it's the cheap shot about "censoring the news" that disgusted me.

[NativeNewYorker]

Helping the wounded = "censor the news"

Spiking the Juanita Brodderick rape story = "news judgement"

[OldFriend]

The cameraman filming the shooting of the lawyer outside the courtroom in LA said he had to choose whether to be a human being and help or keep filming.........

We know that the media is not human, this just reinforces our opinion.