Networks Kill Bin Laden Videos

FoxNews.com ^ | October 10, 2001 | FoxNews, The Associated Press

[grimalkin]

WASHINGTON

[DoughtyOne]

This rather hilarious since they've already aired them for the last week. I welcome the idea that they won't in the future but question the reasoning behind playing them over and over for as long as they did.

[the crow]

As I recall several people here on FR mentioned this possibility about 4 seconds after the tape aired. Good to know the Cabinet members are lurking. It just takes them a while to catch on, I guess.

[Nouge]

Just a random question... why does it seem that only Fox (and the FBI) spells Osoma bin Laden with a "U"?

[SAMWolf]

[Dengar01]

What about PMS-NBC? Anyway it looks like maybe the government is listening to Michael Savage because he called for this yesterday... Wow!

[drjimmy]

Yup. Better deport all the fat ladies too.

[monkeywrench]

Wonder if he planned on biting his lip, or wearing a tie?

[TheFilter]

heh, funny!

That one's going in my deployed husband's email...I'm sure he'll enjoy it.

Regarding the videos -- whether they contain codes or not, it's idiotic hateful propaganda. I am a former news director -- I would NEVER air tapes like this. It's better policy to show a short clip with no sound and paraphrase in a case like this. It would be hard to resist showing the bin Laden tape, but the terrorist network vids calling for a jihad? No.

Natural sound and the actual speaker are better generally, but don't win against national security concerns.

[justlurking]

They need to be careful about even summarizing a video. Anything could be a pre-arranged signal: what he says, where he is, what he wears, who is standing next to him.

They should report that he released another video. End of report. It won't stop reporting from foreign news services (which can be heard on a shortwave radio), but it will put an end to this potential communication channel.

[Eye 4 TRUTH]

terrific ! ROTFLMAO !

[Texas Mom]

I for one am not interested in anything this these murdering B**tards have to say anyway..

[shezza]

At the Ari Fleischer press conference there were a few questions with a sort of hurt, "but that's not fair" tone to them coming from the reporters. You can bet that for some (if not most) of these people, the "right to know" ought to supercede national security every day of the week. Reminds me of the Peter Jennings et al round table in which they declared that they were journalists first and Americans second (in response to the hypothetical scenario that if they were covering a war and saw that a group of American soldiers heading into an enemy ambush, would they warn the soldiers or film the ambush).

(One of my prized possessions is a letter from Ronald Reagan re: his ban on reporters during the Grenada invasion...as a reporter myself, I sent him a letter telling him I supported his decision entirely, that national security was far more important that some journalist winning an award for on-the-spot coverage. He wrote back to thank me and wished that I was in the Washington press corp. I love that guy.)

[Cicero]

I welcome the idea that they won't in the future but question the reasoning behind playing them over and over for as long as they did.

Quite rightly. I would hazard a guess that it's because they are so used to taking handouts from unsavory sources and sticking them right on the air as news. They've pretty well gotten out of the habit of collecting and impartially analyzing news on their own initiative. Since they are no longer getting feeds from clinton's White House basement, they are delighted to take similar pieces of spin and propaganda from folks like Bin Laden and an assortment of Middle-Eastern terrorists and fanatical Imams.

[mercy]

Well, my great greats migrated from New England in the early nineteenth century, but being just poor clod busters the records are not well kept.

You can abuse me all you want but your ideas about immigration are out dated and out moded. I'm not going after all foreigners, just terrs and terr sympths. Sorry if a lot of background folks get booted but perhaps they can save themselves by PROVING THEIR LOYALTIES.

[cbkaty]

Our diversity and tolerance is what made this country great.

This is FreeRepublic pal...not NPR....

I have no tolerance for terrorists nor do I give a damn about diversity.........

We Americans are more similar than dissimilar.... AMERICANS!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds about right.

[smiley]

Well, it's ABOUT TIME someone used their brain on this!