Posted on 09/06/2009 4:25:18 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
While an Associated Press photographer was embedded with Marines in Helmand last month, a Marine convoy was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, or RPG. It struck Lance Corporal Joshua M. Bernard severing his legs. He was treated on the scene, but later died at a combat field hospital.
The AP took still photos and video of the attack, and of Bernard, as he lay dying.
Several weeks later, while working on a feature story about the war in Afghanistan, the AP reporter met with Bernard's family and told his father that they had photos and video of their son before he died. Bernard's father was furious that the photos of his mortally wounded son would potentially be published, so he reached out to the U.S. Marine Corps, asking them to stop the publication.
The AP had not violated any rules of embedding, so the Marines' hands were tied. Gates found out about this and called AP President Thomas Curley yesterday to try to stop the photo release.
Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said Gates called Curley yesterday and was "begging him" to "defer to the wishes of the family," adding that the publication of the photo would "cause them great pain."
AP disagreed and the photo was released.
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They do have a fair number of field reporters and photographers killed each year. You can do a lot of searching to find anything but a smiling face for one of the dead guys.
This is the same MSM that’s so squeamish about publishing pictures of an abortion.
Or the horrors of 9/11.
Freakin' coward liberal...this guy leaves tough issues to his minions.
===========The MSM and their running dog lackeys does not, as a rule, publish or allowed to be published the dead or dying bodies of their employees.==========
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
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Hypocrisy. By another name.
Rules for me, rules for you.
And people wonder why the media is so distrusted by the military.
The msm won’t even show pictures of the WTC on 9/11.
And where was Gates when the left was demanding to show the coffins of our returning heroes.
This hypocrisy is sickening. But then so is Gates.
The guy who took the picture was really sorry he didnt pull the trigger himself and kill that brave Marine.
For the left, this is porn.
What a bunch of sick SOBs.
AP is despicable. There is no news value in publishing this photo. It is just pure sensationalism, yellow journalism at its worst.
Yes, images of Perl were not shown because the media deemed them “too unsettling”. It is for this same reason they decided to no longer air pictures of 9/11.
But publishing photos of a young soldier moments before his death DESPITE the pleas of his own father and the Secretary of Defense, was judged to be perfectly acceptable.
Then stop this embedding madness. Our troops and the families at home do not deserve to worry about having indecent yellow journalist going along for the ride. Bring the journalist home.
I agree, they don’t show accident or murder victims, this is simply wrong.
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