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Franks Upset with Press: Cuts Off Information
ABC Live War Coverage ^
| 03-20-03
| ABC News
Posted on 03/20/2003 4:12:47 PM PST by Amerigomag
Peter Jennings just received confirmation from his correspodent in Qatar that Gen Tommy Franks is angered with the disclosure of certain strategic information by the US press that the press received as "off the record" background. Franks is no longer releasing the information.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: press; sensorship
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To: Samizdat
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To: Area51
Wasn't Franks the General that just got reprimanded for allowing his wife in on Military briefings? Seems the Loose lips may be the guy wearing the Uniform.Bingo!
Seriously, CentCom has been spewing out reams of strategic and tactical disinformation for weeks. Perhaps now the appearance of a security "crackdown" will add new legitimacy to the fresh lies which are about to be spread through the press. Our guys know what they are doing; fortunately, the hostile though unwitting press does not. They don't know it, but the joke is on them...
To: Amerigomag
One cannot trust the media. Either they are fools to the point of gross negligence or treasonous. Either way soldiers lives could be lost.
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posted on
03/20/2003 5:42:14 PM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(Further, the statement assumed)
To: Amerigomag
General Sherman was and is to be admired in the way he handled the press.
To: Amerigomag
I was shocked the news media was telling why we aren't playing Shock and Awe. They were telling that we are trying to convince top military brass in Iraq to surrender. Why would we broadcast this strategy? Hussein will be working to foil this approach, now.
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posted on
03/20/2003 5:47:26 PM PST
by
gitmo
("The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain." GWB)
To: big ern
You have a point.
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posted on
03/20/2003 5:47:48 PM PST
by
jwalsh07
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