-- James A. Donald wrote:
Instead, Fisk conspicuously fails to mention that the minders are controlling the newsmen in a way that prevents them from
On 11 Apr 2003 at 12:28, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
You mean, something similar to say, placing them in military units chosen by minders in Washington, and saying "that's what you get" when non-"embedded" reporters die*.
When the regime fell, the embedded reporters mostly wandered off from their units, ceased to be embedded. This shows that the violence inhibiting reporting was the violence of the regime. When the regime fell, the press became free. James A. Donald:
Fisk omits critical facts, and confidently claims to know what he was not permitted to know.
Jamie Lawrence
I'd love an example to discuss.
He confidently claimed to know that US troops were nowhere near the outskirts of the airport, when the Ministry of Information did not permit reporters to see or visit the outskirts of the airport. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG eD/eqsXBtVNuDXHQaF/zzdK8ReRDHeCZ8r0Cz2LZ 4GRV6snc/JSU1ULsbq9WthWWT96N82LFnfpiQ5y1M