Guild Chief Under Fire for Comments About Attacks on Journalists in Iraq

Editor and Publisher ^ | 05/19/05 | Joe Strupp

[Libertarian444]

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[BCrago66]

Strupp is on O'Reilly right now. Over in a couple minutes.

[Texas_Jarhead]

The author is on BOR presently.

[cripplecreek]

?They target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries, at news services like Al Jazeera, for example."


If only the raving idiot were telling the truth.

[handy old one]

If they din't like the phone calls they sure won't like the walk in traffic that may follow.

[Random Nonsense]

I reckon she's the same species as that commi italian jurno Giuliana Sgrena.

[Billthedrill]

When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military.

Never seen a hair split quite that thin before. Hand me a microscope, please...

[Darkwolf]

"When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military."

OH, that's different. It was the US Military's HAL 9000 that did it.

I LOVE how the libs have learned their lesson from Vietnam and now go out of their way to say oh, no, no, no, we're not criticizing the troops--the ones who actually pull the triggers! We're critixizing THE MILITARY!" They don't even have the guts to blame the people who are pulling the triggers. (I of course think this is bunk, but their bs is pretty blatant--who isn't responsible in their bizarre theories if not the actual soldiers who are shooting the weapons?)

As for bombing Al Jazeera, I don't mean to sound like an armchair general, but it seems like a legitimate target to me. They're a propaganda wing of the Islamic jihad pretending to be an objective journalistic enterprise.

[ReadyNow]

Newspaper Guild The, (202) 434-7177, 501 3rd St NW, Washington, DC 20001

[ReadyNow]

Newspaper Guild The, (202) 434-7177, 501 3rd St NW, Washington, DC 20001

[marblehead17]

With the CBS fiasco, ABC memo, Newsweek, and now this, it's no wonder that FOX continues to gain market share.

[caseinpoint]

Civilians who voluntarily go to a war zone and put themselves in danger are probably going to be wounded or killed. (And I am guessing their beneficiaries have a lot better death benefits than those of the military.)

Even if she says she isn't accusing the soldiers of targeting journalists, isn't she implying that "The military" has a duty to protect those glory-hogging journalists and/or to specifically investigate journalists' deaths? Are journalists' lives more valuable than soldiers' or other civilians' lives?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[NativeNewYorker]

Just another commie:

we've maintained that no one should be disciplined or fired for anything they write for publication

we'll have a human rights and diversity coordinator in every Newspaper Guild local... There should always be someone there asking, "How are we making the union more diverse?

http://tinyurl.com/dddcl

[Wolfhound777]

"Journalists are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq. And what outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq. I think it's just a scandal."

The real scandal would not be targeting the journalists who are aiding and abetting. Any that are helping the terrorists in anyway are fair game IMO. The "Press" badge is not a license for treason. Good hunting.

[dead]

When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military.

So the “US military is killing journalists, but not the troops.

It must be those bigfoots we dressed up in military uniforms and armed. US military bigfoots and leprechauns.

Not only is she a friggin' lying slandering bitch, she's a gutless punk about it to boot.

[Ken H]

When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, "I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military. Could I have said it differently? There are 100 different ways of saying this, but I'm not sure they would have appeased the right."

She is flat out accusing the US Miitary of targeting journalists.

[kcvl]

She is a NUT JOB!!!

[dighton]

The continued survival of a creep like Fisk argues against this nonsense.