Posted on 11/17/2004 1:16:21 PM PST by Racehorse
During his questioning of the service chiefs now appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Sylvestre Reyes, D-Tx, expressed his hope the military would look into revising their policy of embedding reporters with troops. (Paraphrasing loosely) Rep. Reyes said the troops did not need the interference and we did not need to be feeding ammunition to Al Jezeera.
General Michael Hagee, Marine Corps Commandant, answered that embedding reporters with the troops works quite well, despite problems, and is an important means to keep the American people informed.
Purpose of the hearing is the Status of the Armed Forces. C-Span 3. 2-5:30 pm.
A Dem saying what a republican should be saying. They should yank all the embedded right now.
Hey, I dem I can agree with. Better yet, have the Pentagon approve all video before it is released and don't put the dem toads in the Pentagon in charge of the screening.
Very well said.
Yeah, God forbid that we get any news that isn't to the Emperor's liking.
Wake me up, I'm dreaming, a Democrat sees the light.
Pull em...they're doing more harm than good for our men.
If a Rep said it, the Dems would be whining about freedom of the press, the DoD wanting to hide their atrocities from the people, etc., etc.
Yank those punks.
They can use combat correspondents in that branh of the service just as easily without nearly as much risk, but that won't make the perfumed princes look as good in the public eye and in the MSM. And, after all, which is more important, Americans lives or making preening generals look good to the public?
Flame away but watch what happens to that poor Marine on the video. He'll be a political scapegoat for the Pentagon's knob polishers.
The embedding doesn't bother me. It's the ability to run with any video without it passing approval of the military that is causing the problems.
The problem is one anti-war reporter who can, and should, be thrown out. Besides. Never, NEVER, trust a Democrat unless it's Zell Miller.
The embedded are a distraction under the best of circumstances. The job our soldiers have is hard enough, we shouldn't allow anyone to compound it for them.
I think the embedded reporters are a good thing. They get a better understanding of what it's really like, and largely succeed in passing that on to the viewing/reading public. I expect the Marine in this latest flap will be cleared, and even the embed who shot and publicized the video has made some clarifying statements to the effect that the Marine apparently didn't know this was a prisoner, and that under the circumstances his actions were probably understandable.
That is 100% correct.
There should be no one else there.
Let them do their job without PC people messing them up and costing some of them their lives.
Reyes is from El Paso and seems very supportive of our troops, despite being a Democrat.
After this Sites character trying to start Abu Ghraib II, the embeds need to go.
Rep. Robin Hayes, a Republican, just told the Chiefs he was receiving email even during the hearings. I blinked, and did not catch the intensity, but the traffic seems to be heavy and is expressing great unhappiness over the MSM's treatment of the Marine.
I thought during the early stages of the war all news and film correspondences was screened by the military.
I'm for a free embedded press, but there is psycho-political war over there too. Releasing the photo of the marine killing the insurgent in the mosque was wrong.
Completely wrong.
nick
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