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Media watchdog says concerned CNN had armed guard
Reuters
| 4/13/03
Posted on 04/13/2003 9:48:09 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
04/13/2003 9:48:09 AM PDT
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kattracks
To: kattracks
"CNN appears to be going too far."
Wow. How many times has this been said?
To: kattracks
Sean Penn should become a CNN embed.
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posted on
04/13/2003 9:56:24 AM PDT
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LurkedLongEnough
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posted on
04/13/2003 9:56:58 AM PDT
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To: kattracks
If they get in the way of our forces or endanger them, our local commanders need to take these bastards out like any other enemy force.
I'm sure that the Free Iraqis and Kurds would like to have a few CNN trophies hang around their houses. CNN being in bed with Saddam for over a decade has cost the lives of a lot of innocent Iraqis and Kurds.
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posted on
04/13/2003 9:57:37 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(IT IS PAST TIME FOR A MASSIVE REGIME CHANGE IN CUBA!)
To: kattracks
BUMP
To: kattracks
"To our knowledge, this is the first time press vehicles have travelled with armed security guards."For some reason this reminds me of the Rosie O'Donnell bodyguard controversy. Especially given that it's CNN doing it.
There's a, "Guns are bad -- but give me one to protect myself" feel to it.
To: kattracks
In future battles, will CNN bring their own shoulder fired anti tank weapons to fire at US troops? . . . to bring you the "inside story" of what dead americans smeared across the inside of a tank look like?
After all, this is the same CNN that spent MILLIONS to produce Peter Arnetts filth about our troops useing bio weapons, and later had to retract it.
This is the same CNN who willingly did not report the story of "Chiraqs Iraq" torturing one of his it's own cameramen leaving him permently disfigured even to this day, and later had to admit the truth.
Is this the same CNN that will, if this behaviour continues, plant it's own CNN anti-tank mine just in front of the Palistein hotel, to get just the right lighting as their blow-dried poodle does their standup in front of the burning hulk of an Abrams . . . Cwistin Wamo-poor xclaiming "this attack sends a clear message that the people still support saddom" ????
Well, maybe I'm reading to much into this.
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:00:37 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(288,007,154 Americans did not protest the war today)
To: ChadGore
NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:02:12 AM PDT
by
Drango
(Two wrongs don't make a right...but three lefts do!)
To: kattracks
Bob FrankenSimon...those two guys come off as completely psychotic. Just nuts.
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:03:11 AM PDT
by
Benrand
To: kattracks
Hey, I saw that incident live, and that armed guard may very well have saved their lives, or at least their freedom.
Anybody is entitiled to defend themselves and use security forces when warranted (such as in an active War zone.)
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:04:51 AM PDT
by
sargon
To: kattracks
Sod the journalists, this makes it dangerous for American troops what with journalists ticking off the locals by shooting at checkpoints and firing blindly into villages.
CNN GUILTY OF RATINGS WARCRIMES
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:04:58 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS: CNN let human beings be tortured and killed to keep their Baghdad bureau open)
To: weegee
Mind if I steal your tagline ?
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:05:58 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(HEY CNN: No Blood for ratings)
To: weegee
SOUTH OF PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA, July 12, 2004:
(AP) A CNN camera crew came under heavy fire from Fox News Channel armored vehicles today.
The CNN crew was attempting to enter Pyongyang to film choice footage of liberated North Koreans destroying statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, but was repulsed by elite forces of the Leventhal Battalion.
CNN is expected to call in airstrikes from A-10s belonging to network ally ABC.
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:11:53 AM PDT
by
John H K
To: kattracks
I am torn on this one- on the one hand, I am no fan of CNN, and I never watch them if I can possibly get another news source. On the other hand, even journalists have a right to self-defense. And you have to admit that driving into the outskirts of TIKRIT was a pretty gutsy thing to do.
I guess, if had been in Sadler's place, I probably would have applied my old rule concerning bars and roadhouses- "If that place is too dangerous to go into without a gun, I'll just stay out!"
To: kattracks
I wonder what the gun control lefties at the Coverup News Network think about this?
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:12:59 AM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: ChadGore
Feel free to use any of the phrases. My tag line includes my own "No Blood For Ratings" retort to the lefist media (now that their game is evident) and someone elses' wording of the scandal at CNN.
It would be good to be at public protest events with these CNN phrases (although a crafty editor might crop a shot so it just reads ... "NO BLOOD FOR...").
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:13:06 AM PDT
by
weegee
(NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS: CNN let human beings be tortured and killed to keep their Baghdad bureau open)
To: John H K
ROTFLMAO! And it's not even impossible that this could happen...
To: sargon
CNN should not have been there in the first place. These weinies continue to slobber their lies - but their audience is contracting apace.
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:13:57 AM PDT
by
hgro
To: DeuceTraveler
I'm wondering if this "going too far" will push them over the cliff ...??
They appear to be expressing all the traits of an organization so enamored with itself, it cannot see that it's totally out of control.
A free press is important - but with a free press, comes responsibility. Evidently, CNN no longer meets that test.
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posted on
04/13/2003 10:16:30 AM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - You Are The Greatest!!)
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