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  • Airstrike! The Pentagon simplifies media relations

    03/13/2003 8:46:35 PM PST · by airedale · 10 replies · 193+ views
    The Register ^ | 13/03/2003 at 17:10 GMT | John Lettice
    Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take radical new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' journalists will be shot at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 last sunday veteran war reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a senior Pentagon official that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite phones, that are detected by US aircraft are likely to be fired on. Bush pere's Iraq war featured tight control of the media, but the current administration intends to go rather further. According to Adie (who, overseas readers should be aware, is effectively a...