Posted on 12/24/2004 9:14:56 PM PST by ckilmer
History and history in the making
Little Green Footballs links to a Poynter Online press release here reproduced verbatim.
From JACK STOKES, director of media relations, Associated Press: [This is a solicited letter regarding Salon's "The Associated Press 'insurgency.'"] Several brave Iraqi photographers work for The Associated Press in places that only Iraqis can cover. Many are covering the communities they live in where family and tribal relations give them access that would not be available to Western photographers, or even Iraqi photographers who are not from the area.
Insurgents want their stories told as much as other people and some are willing to let Iraqi photographers take their pictures. It's important to note, though, that the photographers are not "embedded" with the insurgents. They do not have to swear allegiance or otherwise join up philosophically with them just to take their pictures.
These comments bear on some of the questions raised in the post and commentary at Haifa Street. In this regard, one hopes it is not impertinent to ask whether a photographer who does not "swear allegiance or otherwise join up philosophically with them (insurgents)" can take their pictures. Mr. Stokes might like to state whether the Associated Press photographer who took a sequence of pictures of an execution on Haifa Street, Baghdad is one of these "brave Iraqi photographers" to whom the insurgents are willing to entrust their stories. If so, at what point did the "brave Iraqi" photographer become aware that the story of the day was going to be the live execution of two Iraqi election workers?
Just asking.
sigh..1942 nazis want their stories told..what utter disgust..
Who cares?
Tell it to the Marines!
BTTT
Reporters don't have to do these things: they already are in alliance and joined with them ideologically.
Their story should be on their tombstone or whatever grave marker that is within the customs of the country. "Here lies Joe Insurgent that went to meet his 72 Virgins at the hands of the US Military."
In which case, it is hardly the job of an American media outlet to serve their purpose.
Does not Stokes understand that? And, if not, perhaps it is time that AP moved their headquarters to Qatar.
ZARQUON HAS COME AGAIN!!!
""Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" "
For the worst "insurgents", my temptation would be to say "Yes", then as I shot each limb
in sequence, I'd say "It's about making you understand the suffering you've
caused innocent people, you b@$tard. And I'm not going kill you, but let you live so
crippled you'll wish you'd been killed outright."
Actually, that would just be the start of what I'd be tempted to do to someone
that would behead a female aid worker...
No problem with that whatsoever, so long as it's only done posthumously.
Stinking terrorist scum.
Okay. Once upon a time, there were three pigs....
>>>Insurgents want their stories told<<<
Paging Dan Rather!
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imho the ap is playing the role of tokyo rose
We can clarify it further they are the "ememy" regardless where they come from.
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you're clearly of a younger generation. You see all the boomers on both sides have a script of the vietnam war that runs in their heads.
for example in the spring of 1968 the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive. The Vietnamese were soundly beaten and the the Viet Cong were virtually eliminated in the South. It was a clear cut US military victory. However, walter cronkheit got on the tv and announced that because the NorthVietnamese could launch an offensive and the US took casualties--we had lost the battle. Lyndon Johnson decided at that point that we couldn't win the war because Chronkheit had come out against it. The North Vietnamese later said that they too thought they lost the battle however, when Walter Cronkheit spoke up they changed their minds.
that was how many decades ago?
Now a crummy piece of murderous street theatre in Bagdad and a serious bombing in Mosul have shifted the "momenum" of battle after the thrashing the bathists took in Fallujah.
USA Today founder Al Neuharth’s Thursday column ... called for a U.S. pullout from Iraq “sooner rather than later.” Neuharth served in World War II in France, Germany and the Philippines, but suggested that avoiding service in Iraq was proper today. He observed that WW II, on the other hand, was "highly moral" and troops were “properly equipped.”
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000742016
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maybe you can get how this stuff plays out.
I don't care why they strap bombs to their bodies and detonate themselves. I just want to know how to stop them.
"How do we win the war in the media?" asked one soldier in Mosul. Another soldier in Tikrit wondered why there is not more coverage of reconstruction efforts going on in the country.
"I guess what's news has to be bad news to get on the press," Rumsfeld responded to the first question - after supposing, with a big grin, "that does not sound like a question that was planted by the press."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Rumsfeld%20Media
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