Al-Jazeera's outpost in Iraq was hit by two US missiles today. That much is not in dispute.
The reason I don't trust Fox News is their spin on it is
A) the targeting was likely deliberate B) this is a good thing.
Now, yes, the targeting may have been deliberate. I certainly don't think it's impossible. But attacking media is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, and the Faux News crowd are cheering this on.
That goes beyond stupid to an entirely new word meaning "more stupid than stupid."
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CentCom's GEN Brooks said this morning that journalists are not targeted by the coalition, be they Al-Jazeera or otherwise.
If they were...d'ya think Geraldo would've lived long enough to get kicked out of Iraq? :-)
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Originally posted by Scott Summets (Link deleted to keep the tables unbroken)
That link shows that hitting Al-Jazeera is ok.
...did you actually read that article? There wasn't a single sentence that justified the attack of the media by the armed forces. It stated, basically, that the media wasn't bound by the Geneva Convention's article 13 (which states that POWs must be protected against violence, humiliation, etcetera) because it only applies to states involved in hostilities, not to news organizations.
That being said, is anyone particularly surprised at yet another violation of the Geneva Convention by our side OR theirs? It's practically become a rule.
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Did you actually read that story, or just link based on the headline?
Read the story. It's about showing prisoners of war on TV. The "Geneva Convention does not apply to media" is about how the media is not held responsible for showing POW's. It has nothing to do with targeting media outlets.
Honestly.
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Originally posted by godkingAl-Jazeera's outpost in Iraq was hit by two US missiles today. That much is not in dispute.
The reason I don't trust Fox News is their spin on it is
A) the targeting was likely deliberate B) this is a good thing.
Now, yes, the targeting may have been deliberate. I certainly don't think it's impossible. But attacking media is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, and the Faux News crowd are cheering this on.
That goes beyond stupid to an entirely new word meaning "more stupid than stupid."
I looked for something on the website to indicate that Fox News approved of this...and didn't immediately see it. So...I'm assuming you're talking about the on-air talent? If so, can you give an example? I'm not being a jerk, I just didn't see anything like that.
Originally posted by godkingAl-Jazeera's outpost in Iraq was hit by two US missiles today. That much is not in dispute.
The reason I don't trust Fox News is their spin on it is
A) the targeting was likely deliberate B) this is a good thing.
Now, yes, the targeting may have been deliberate. I certainly don't think it's impossible. But attacking media is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, and the Faux News crowd are cheering this on.
That goes beyond stupid to an entirely new word meaning "more stupid than stupid."
I looked for something on the website to indicate that Fox News approved of this...and didn't immediately see it. So...I'm assuming you're talking about the on-air talent? If so, can you give an example? I'm not being a jerk, I just didn't see anything like that.
No, he can't. He's just exagerrating to fit his own obvious bias against Fox. I was watching last night when this was first reported and the military experts in the studio immediately said the only explanation they could think of is if the Iraqi Soldiers were using the building as a place to shoot at U.S. Troops. None of the people on the show ever said it was good to attack members of the media. As a matter of fact, they mentioned that the guy killed was a former employee of FoxNews and they had one of their reporters that travelled with him talk about what a good guy he was and how he was fun to travel with.
I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.
So what the hell is up with 'Showing POWs' on TV or in the news. A whole bunch of people get in an uproar over our POWs being shown on TV, and yet today, I open up TIME Magazine and there's a two page spread of an Iraqi POW down on the ground being covered by US troops.
So why aren't we throwing a fit at our own media?
-Jag
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Originally posted by JaguarSo what the hell is up with 'Showing POWs' on TV or in the news. A whole bunch of people get in an uproar over our POWs being shown on TV, and yet today, I open up TIME Magazine and there's a two page spread of an Iraqi POW down on the ground being covered by US troops.
So why aren't we throwing a fit at our own media?
-Jag
we, and our media, are upset at AMERICAN POWs being shown on TV. Therefore, we, and our media, would not be upset at iraqi POWs being shown on our media.
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I will admit that I have NOT seen the TIME spread myself, so if I am wrong, please let me know, but I think the issue is the specifics of the images. You ARE allowed to have pictures of POWs, but you are not allowed to show their faces (or anything else that might positively identify them), and you are not allowed to interrogate them OR publicly humiliate them.
Nondescript photos of Iraqi POWs are ok, because they cannot be identified, and we are in no way actively humiliating them (or beating the living hell out of, or torturing for that matter).
Now if TIME DID show their faces, or something along those lines, I think they should have to answer for that...
The soldier's face was pretty visible as it was in the foreground of the picture. I couldn't find it on TIME's website, but I'll see if I can describe it in more detail once I get the issue back from my friend. The only pictures up on TIME's site either showed A) Iraqi soldiers getting medical aid B) Iraqi civilians being held prisoner C) Dead Iraqi soldiers face down
Or D) This picture of three 'suspected' Iraqi Soldiers (or at least that's how it reads from the captions).
-Jag
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The explanation that I heard was that it was OK for a hard news report of soldiers surrendering, but it was not OK to show POWS being interrogated. I believe that the confusion has to do with the latter being simplified as "It is wrong to show POWS".
Willful ignorance of science is not commendable. Refusing to learn the difference between a credible source and a shill is criminally stupid.
Has anyone ever pointed out the notion of rules regarding what is ok and what is not in an exercise where the basic notion is to kill everyone on the opposite side of you is one of the goofiest things ever? It's WAR! The whole point is to destroy the lives of those attacking you. Ooooh, one side showed pictures of POW's. Well those POW's on both sides were captured while trying to kill the people on the side who captured them. We attempt to create ground rules to make the notion of warfare more palatable to the people so it can be more easily sold as an option, and so it does not look as if we are betraying our civilized nature, but in the end such things are just foolish. War is not football, you can't throw a penalty flag for clipping, and you're just as dead whether you're killed by a cruise missile, a rifle, or sarin gas.
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Originally posted by rockstarI think his point was "al-Jazeera sucks, so YAY for bombing it!" Not that I agree whole-heartedly, but that's what I got from him linking it.
Its a pretty popular misconception over here that al-Jazeera is some sort of joint venture of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
It's not. It's a television network like any other which employs many well educated and well respected (in media circles) journalists, a large number of whom originally worked for western networks.
Oh, and the reason I wouldn't trust Fox News is that they broke the news that "a strike was made on a building in Baghdad, possibly holding Saddam Hussein and the rest of the al Qaeda leadership"
To have someone that ill informed reporting on the war is bad enough but to allow her to go uncorrected is pretty shocking.
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Originally posted by rockstarI think his point was "al-Jazeera sucks, so YAY for bombing it!" Not that I agree whole-heartedly, but that's what I got from him linking it.
Its a pretty popular misconception over here that al-Jazeera is some sort of joint venture of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
It's not. It's a television network like any other which employs many well educated and well respected (in media circles) journalists, a large number of whom originally worked for western networks.
Oh, and the reason I wouldn't trust Fox News is that they broke the news that "a strike was made on a building in Baghdad, possibly holding Saddam Hussein and the rest of the al Qaeda leadership"
To have someone that ill informed reporting on the war is bad enough but to allow her to go uncorrected is pretty shocking.
That seems to be a case of simply mis-speaking, it does happen. Do we really want to start me, and others (Pool Boy I'm looking at you) digging up every verbal screw up CNN, MSNBC, or for that matter Dan Rather have made?
If you want to choose another news source because you like their reporting, great! But don't blanket them with "They can't be trusted", because of a verbal gaff.
Back to Fox News for a moment: On Monday Night in the 10 PM Eastern Hour, they pulled a 6.3 rating. Gee, remember when another show on Monday Nights on Cable would pull a 6.3?
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Originally posted by cranlsnThat seems to be a case of simply mis-speaking, it does happen.
Mis-speaking as you put it I have no problem with. But the fact that no effort was made to correct the cock up is pretty poor at best.
Christ if Gerry Adams was named as the leader of the IRA on western television there would be uproar regardless of whether it was intentional, and his links to said organisation are far stronger than Saddams are to al Qaeda.
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Originally posted by JaguarSo what the hell is up with 'Showing POWs' on TV or in the news. A whole bunch of people get in an uproar over our POWs being shown on TV, and yet today, I open up TIME Magazine and there's a two page spread of an Iraqi POW down on the ground being covered by US troops.
So why aren't we throwing a fit at our own media?
-Jag
The media isn't under any obligation to the rules of the Geneva Convention. If the media happens to catch a soldier surrendering, or being taken captive, they have no restrictions.
The technical difference with the Iraqi TV showing of the U.S. and U.K. POWs was that the Iraqi government invited a TV network in to show the POWs, already in custody and locked up, for propaganda. Then, they took it further by allowing the reporter to interrogate the prisoners. The Iraqi government was responsible for that and they are obligated to follow the rules of the Geneva Convention.
The main source of complaint with the Iraqi TV showing of the POWs was their showing of the dead U.S. and U.K. Soldiers that appeared to have been executed.
In short, the difference is that the Iraqi government was responsible for the showing of the U.S. and U.K. POWs and KIAs.
I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.
What a surprise, Bush picks a tool... When a very serious issue of the White House purposely identified a covert CIA agent, instead of investigating he'd rather make a flippant remark about DNA and blue dresses, idiot.