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| Iraqi police beat news photographer | |
| 2008-05-17 | |
| An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters was hospitalized Friday after police beat him at the scene of a bombing, officials told CNN. The unnamed still photographer was in stable condition after five Iraqi policemen struck him on the head with AK-47 rifles, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. A police official said the photographer was filming the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Fallujah when police approached him and asked him to stay back for his own safety. Seven people were killed in the suicide bombing, including an infant and four soldiers. The official, who described the scene as chaotic, said the photographer disregarded the request and began filming the scene along with a video cameraman from Reuters. An argument between police and the cameramen ensued, leading to violence, the official said. The cameraman was also injured, but he was not brought to the hospital.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Hell it wasn't until the recent 4-5 decades that there were 'Journalists' (much less a school of Journalism - how hard is it to report what is happening?) - before that they were regular joe reporters who wanted to report the news - not shape it to fit their agenda. Now we have the MSM - The 'Ministry of Truth' (ala 1984) who's job it is to distort the truth and tell all the lies it can to achieve its political goals. Orwell was more of a prophet then Mohammend. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-05-17 22:33 |
| #11 Don't let's forget that there are a great many fewer professional journalists, ie salaried, at the New York Times and others, compared to five or ten years ago... and the number keeps shrinking. Most of these people are having to find real jobs, while the share held by Pinch, et al will soon reduce them to joining the middle class. There really are consequences for their behaviour, even if not so dramatic as Black Marias. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-17 21:11 |
| #10 Reuters photographer. To good to be true. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-05-17 21:06 |
| #9 Read Yon's book and what he has to say about the media war. It's just as, if not more, important than the shooting one. And that's one we've all but lost, courtesy of traitors like the staff of the NYT. I'd like to see the Black Marias lined up at the Times Bldg. taking those S.O.B.s down to Rikers, and I'd particularly enjoy seeing Pinch, Herbert, Krugman and Dowd resisting arrest and getting really ruffed and cuffed into submission. As for the trial, I'd say 15 to 20 at Attica, without parole, would be less than they deserve. |
| Posted by: Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-05-17 19:05 |
| #8 Any front line reporter in Iraq is a partisan of some kind. Celebratory pics of Islamofascist murders are posted throughout the Muslim tyrannies. That beaten "photographer" wasn't exercising freedom of expression; he was serving as an accessory after the fact. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-17 13:36 |
| #7 Ropes, lampposts, journos. Some assembly required. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-05-17 13:14 |
| #6 Is there a Pizza charity for Fallujah police force? |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-05-17 10:42 |
| #5 Could have been an attempt at clandestine BDA. In the South, arguing with a policeman generally had an... unhappy ending such as this. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-05-17 07:40 |
| #4 I guess there are somethings that Iraqi forces can teach to US military. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-05-17 07:21 |
| #3 we have to get real about footage and speech being used as propaganda. Right now, restrictions only work one way - as in the dutch case or with French TV. Islamists feel free to threaten and intimidate and there are few consequences for their actions. They also have found a way to use free speech to elevate the impact of bombing civilians and to promote fear - with virtually no downside to their actions. Unfortunately, common sense and deceny are in much shorter supply today than they once were and so a large enough portion of western society will attempt to move heaven and earth to protect this Reuter's camerman to uphold the principle of free speech, yet do nothing to speak out against the injustice of what is happening to cartoonists in Holland. It is the imbalance of tolerating "free speech" that threatens us - not free speech itself. The Islamists have succeeded in undermining us at the very foundation of our society - our goodness and our freedoms. They are organized, funded and working as a united force against our way of life. We have no such unity. If we don't come up with some sort of world-wide counterbalance to demanding equal protections for all free speech and other western values, the Islamists will turn western civilization into the hell-hole they seem so eager to create. I'm not saying we should restrict speech - I'm saying that we should begin demanding equal protections for westerners so that truth can prevail. We need to do it forcefully and now. It's our only hope of winning a world worth fighting for. |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-05-17 05:34 |
| #2 it seems to me that willingly making footage that is clearly intended for propaganda purposes constitutes an act of war. Fine line yes, but this clearly crosses it. I hope the police get a reward. Besides, what the *(&(^ is wrong with these people anyway. Killing infants and just people walking down the street. Sheesh. They are the living dead. |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-05-17 05:03 |
| #1 Cop: "Stay back!" Reuterist: "My dear fellow, do you not know who we are?" Cop: "Stay back, Allah curse you!" Reuterist: "We are Reuters, and we at Reuters need not take orders from mere...." THWACK! |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-05-17 03:50 |