Posted on 11/17/2004 12:37:22 PM PST by freakboy
Kevin Sites, NBC Reporter Who Photographed Marine Shooting, An Active War Correspondent
POSTED: 10:39 am EST November 17, 2004
NEW YORK -- Video of a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded man in Fallujah was captured by an Internet Age journalist who often reports and photographs war stories, then posts his impressions on his own weblog.
Kevin Sites, a freelancer who works part time for NBC News, was being kept under wraps by the network Tuesday as the investigation into the shooting continued.
The youthful, long-haired Sites has worked for NBC, CNN and ABC News and has covered war zones in Afghanistan and Colombia. He had extensive experience in Iraq, where he was embedded with a Marines unit during the operation in Fallujah.
"He is a skilled reporter, a skilled videojournalist who is willing to go and chronicle the news in the difficult places, under difficult conditions," said Bill Wheatley, NBC News vice president.
Sites handled the incident "completely professionally," Wheatley said, recognizing the importance of the story and reporting its aftermath.
While working for CNN a year ago, Sites and a crew were held captive for several hours by Iraqi Fedayeen who accused them of being spies. His hands were bound behind his back and an AK-47 round fired at his feet.
Sites left CNN, he later said, partly because the company would not let him maintain a weblog on his war reporting. CNN declined to comment on Sites Tuesday.
There are no such problems at NBC News: Anchorman Brian Williams even promoted the name of his site at the end of Sites' "Nightly News" report Monday.
His site, www.kevinsites.net, contains his diary of the action in Fallujah. It describes traveling with the Marines and encountering bodies of dead Iraqis along the way: "This one is dressed in clean white sneakers and athletic pants. He is on his back -- his arms behind his head, his face seems nearly peaceful, content."
He also posts pictures of the Marines on patrol and, in off hours, displaying pictures of their families and their tattoos.
Nothing was posted on the weekend incident in a Fallujah mosque, however.
Sites has described his blog as a way for readers to understand more of the experience of being in a war zone.
"Readers want to share your adventure," he told Broadcasting & Cable magazine last summer. "What you see in the paper or on TV tends to be the cleaned-up version. I didn't tell you I had to sleep in the dirt to tell a story for TV."
Sites works only part time for NBC News because he's a filmmaker with his own production company, Shoot First Films. He lives in Pismo Beach, Calif., and taught journalism at California Polytechnic State in San Luis Obispo in 2000-2001.
"He has skills in a number of areas, so he's the classic multitasking journalist," Wheatley said. "He can shoot (a camera), he can report, he can build a Web site, he edits."
Who is responsible for these embedded reporters and do they not have review of what leaves the field of battle?
Look at me! I get to hang out with Marines!
Look at me! I had to sleep in the dirt to do my job! I'm as studly as warriors!
Look at my pictures! I'm even in many of them!
I even made a blog so people could read more about me! And read MY stories! Sometimes they're even about me!
Me! Me!! ME!!!
This guy might be an "active war correspondent", but he's also an active douchebag.
The guy is a traitor and deserves to have his ass kicked.
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YOU MEAN THIS KEVIN SITES
He is a candy pants sissy long hair liberal. Who isn't 1/8 the man any Marine is
If I were Sites I think I would ask for a stateside job from here on lest he gets what surely many men on the ground wouldn't mind happening to such a fine journalist. Of course it would have to be an enemy round fired from an enemy rifle but I think that could plausibly happen.
HE CAN ALSO GET MARINES KILLED!!!
Please understand why our Marine killed the Iraqi.
He had every right to. Sites should be ashamed to show his face in public.
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Whose side is this guy on? I say since he's helping Al Qaeda so much we should let them have him.
It would have been much better for him to simply destroy that footage.
In the fog of battle ricochets happen, you know.
NBC says that they intentionally didn't disclose the identity of the marine, yet they provided the unedited footage for Al Jazeera to show.
I guarantee they touch all of our lives, whether we know it or not.
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The Sheepdogs
Most humans truly are like sheep
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Not until he strikes us at our core
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You took the words right out of my mind. I hope that means he's sympathetic with our patriot soldiers.
Does it strike anybody else as strange that he was a hostage in Iraq and got released?(Hannan,Iraqui aid worker woman is executed) Plus CNN declines to comment on his leaving them sounds really weird.
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