Pentagon warns unembedded journalists (Gung-Ho Reporter Deathwatch)

Broadcasting & Cable ^ | March 25, 2003 | John Eggerton

[Timesink]

The Defense Department has issued a warning to "unembedded" journalists.

According to assistant secretary of public affairs Tori Clarke, the Pentagon has received information that Iraqis "might equip vehicles and soldiers to look like news media."

She warned news operations, particularly "independent media that are roaming the battlefield ... to exercise the utmost care and judgment with respect to how they are asking their reporters to cover this conflict."

The warning was prompted in part by the deaths of two unembedded journalists Saturday. One, an ITV News correspondent, was believed by ITV to have been the victim of so-called friendly fire when his vehicle came into the line of fire of, or was mistaken for, those of Iraqi soldiers.

[Timesink]

Why am I suddenlt tempted to go to Iraq and put up signs all over the place reading "Fre Inturvu with Saddam this wae --->"?

[Enduring Freedom]

The remarkable, and recent, discovery that terrorists will pose as soldiers, journalists, lumps of shiite, civilians, barnyard animals, the Inquisition, and cancer, is unbelievably naive and inexcusable.

WASN'T THIS OBVIOUS TO MILITARY PLANNERS FROM THE OUTSET???THESE PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS!

For God's sake, just:

KILL THEM ALL, AND BE DONE WITH IT!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

LOL! And aren't this reporters embedded, not unembedded.

Or was this on purpose to unbed them?

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

ROTFLMAO!! Barnyard animals.

LOL

They WOULD pose as anything LOL

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Let's hope the Iraq's can only think of taping CNN on their fake news car.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

All soldoors went this way ------->

[Born on the Storm King]

No, they went thattaway <-------!

[Boot Hill]

The other night I was watching one of these "embeds" reporting from the front lines at the battle for Umm Qasar. This reporter was so effing stupid and so obnoxious that as the cameraman panned in on the two story building where the Iraqi fire was coming from, I found myself looking for the name of the company on the side of the building. I thought, hey, why not use the internet to look up the phone number for that company, call the Iraqi soldiers that were hiding inside and see if they had a sniper squad that could be bribed into taking out that swine of a reporter. You know, reach out and touch some one.

Better sense prevailed, but you have no idea how tempted I was. Now if had been Peter Arnett in Baghdad, well...

--Boot Hill

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

All infidel soulduurs went dis waay in desert to find hiden bad things ----------->

[Enduring Freedom]

Let's urge them to appear as Scud missiles.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Now THAT is an idea.

[hispanarepublicana]

I was thinking last night...(it happens occasionally)....I've noticed lots of those embedded reporters who seem to have been "born again" from a military/patriotic standpoint.
I predict this: look for non-FNC embedded reporters to have "trouble" readjusting to life at CNN, MSNBC, AP, Reuters, SeeBS, etc., when they return to civilian life. Look for some career moves from them.

[TADSLOS]

They've been amply warned. Our troops shouldn't lend a hand to them, feed them or provide them security. They don't want to abide by CENTCOM rules, fine. They're on their own.

[Hatteras]

I'm really disappointed. C'mon Geraldo! Get out there and get the story! Don't waste your time hiding behind the front lines!

What ever happened to the the Geraldo I used to know?...