Posted on 11/17/2004 1:43:49 AM PST by huac
"Friends, photographers and artists ... were invited to give their visual statement against war." -imagesagainstwar.com NBC correspondent Kevin Sites, who reported on the Fallujah mosque shooting, has photographs displayed on "Images Against War", a web site devoted to "visual statement against war". A review of the site states, "Most of the great war photographers have been against war in general, and often against the particular wars they were photographing". Was Mr. Sites acting as a unbiased journalist in the mosque, or as a "artist" against war?
I pray you are right. As it stands now, all MSM attention is on the Marine. He's a pawn in their attempts to tarnish the Bush Administration. If Sites is serving his own agenda, it is important that it gets out beyond FR.
Wouldn't it be a NOVEL idea for the Defense Dept to require that all imbed reporters working with US troops in an active war zone have PRIOR MILITARY EXPERIENCE. No civilians, no agendas. You want to be embedded with US troops... show us your Honorable Discharge from some branch of the service, show us you know how dangerous active theater operations are, and you are in.
Otherwise, go cover traffic accidents on the Santa Monica freeway.
Dont you think the press would howl at that one!!! But how much better and more accurate would the reporting be.
This is good news, Publius. Thanks.
Like you I am anti-war but I don't have to shout it from the roof tops while our troops are fighting battles for their country.
There are times in combat when you don't leave wounded enemy alive.
I was in Korea and my brother in Nam.We never talked about this.
Sites and NBC may cost a soldier his life.
A crime against Iraqi's should be tried in house not by the media and public.
Thanks.
It'll never happen.
=0(
GEN McInerney is on Fox right now. He just praised the Marines and said that this incident should have never been brought to the publics attention. He was saying that it was impossible for the general public to put it in the proper context.
I think you misunderstood me. I am for this war. No American could be against killing the Muslims who attacked us with no warning and killed innocent people.
Sites and Kerry cost American lives with their support of the enemy and undermining of the war effort. Kerry did it for Nam and the War on Terror. He is a double traitor. Sites should be pulled from covering the war and tried for treason.
Like beating your head against a brick wall?
=0)
That should not surprise anyone.
Exactly. And reporter Sites, no matter how admirable other of his reports may have been, should have known this.
"Sites... should have known this."
He knew it. The question is what were the motivations which dictated his response and subsequent actions?
"Apparently Sites is an ideologue with an antiwar/anti U.S. agenda. What else needs to be understood. He was on a hunting expedition and found what he was looking for. No objectivity about it."
i.e. he committed an act of treason.
No kidding.
Boy howdy he sure did.
Also... LOL and wish you'd quipped that sooner.
All right, I'm ready to lead the charge!
Why oh why would an american (lower case intentional) want to do this to a Marine?
Google Ernie Pyle, the last patriotic American war correspondent.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.