Posted on 05/24/2005 7:09:25 PM PDT by quidnunc
A public statement by Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley is reviving questions about the intentional targeting of journalists in Iraq by the U.S. armed forces.
At a May 13 meeting in St. Louis, Foley said: "Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq. 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."
The Newspaper Guild that Foley heads represents 35,000 media workers in the United States and Canada. The Guild is the largest journalists union in North America.
Candice Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Guild's parent union, the Communications Workers of America, said the comments, made at the National Conference for Media Reform, should be taken in context.
"Foley's remarks were a small part of a much larger discussion about the problems of conglomerate media ownership," Johnson said.
She pointed out that they are consistent with the Guild's affiliate program with the International Federation of Journalists to demand an investigation of the high number of U.S. and foreign journalists who have been Iraq casualties.
A letter was sent to President Bush on April 8 laying out the International Federation of Journalists' and Newspaper Guild's concerns. The White House confirmed that it had received it.
In the letter, signed by Foley, she wrote: "A prompt and convincing response to the questions raised over these deaths will end worldwide speculation that the U.S. targets journalists and the media." But Foley's later St. Louis statement ended speculation before a response from the White House was received. According to Foley, journalists are "being targeted for real."
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Can't be. She's still walking around.
The unbelievable sickness of the liberal left just continues to grow.
"For real," like, you know...
The idiot liberal brain is a wonder to behold.
That pic is exactly what I thought of when I saw this tripe.
i guess they would feel safer embeded in a zarqwai{sic] training camp
Email 'em, I keep hearing liberals say "Well, democracy is not for everyone." Well now I believe it, it's not for people like them.
I saw the clip of this b*tch saying this on Fox News yesteday. Talk about a load of crap.
"Newspaper Union Leader: U.S. Military Targets Journalists"
From this silly b!tch's lips to God's ear...
It seems the quisling MSM vermin are hearing footsteps. And perhaps, from within a shadow, a bolt going into battery. An AK bolt, naturally. What a pity. After all of the deaths they have caused by their endless aid and comfort to the enemy, they are worried about their worthless, stinking hides. Amazing.
...and there is a plane load of body bags to prove it. <./sarcasm off
The thing is, I find myself wishing that it was the truth.
Most journalists are members of a labor union whose core beliefs and values are in sympathy with those of Socialists and Communists. This is a little-discussed aspect of their hatred for all things American and Republican.
See their web site at www.newsguild.org
Ain't that the truth!
When I was in Iraq a common complaint of the military and civilian security companies was that it seemed awfully funny that news crews would be on site before the IED or ambush was sprung. So who is the enemy?
Like I always said if the US forces get into a fire fight and your a journalist you better be inside the perimeter.
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