http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm " I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if uplinks --that is the television signals out of... Bhagdad, for example-- were detected by any planes ...electronic media... mediums, of the military above Bhagdad... they'd be fired down on. Even if they were journalists ..' Who cares! ' said.. [inaudible] .."
it is possible that they might be trying to protect america's forces by doing this. i.e. not having a live broadcast on location with the troops stating what they are doing.
Nah, probably afraid independant media may actually uncover a UNBIASED report of what is going on there.
you're probably right. i mean, if it were up to me as a commander, i would have reporters beaming exact locations of my troops and everything that they're doing. also, i would want civilians around in case my troops were attacked. it would be great if civilian reporters were injured or killed so they could really get inside the war.
"In the last Gulf war, where I was one of the pool correspondents with the British Army. We effectively had very, very light touch when it came to any kind of censorship. We were told that anything which was going to endanger troops lives which we understood we shouldn't broadcast. But other than that, we were relatively free." It's amazing what you'll find when you read the article you are debating on.
