Five embedded reporters booted out of Iraq in recent months

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NEW YORK As Iraq moves closer to its first democratic elections later this month, the number of news organizations requesting embedded slots with military units there is on the rise, according to officials. But those new embeds better watch their step. E&P has learned that five journalists have been kicked out of embed slots in the past three months for reporting secure information.

"They were all for operational security reasons, (revealing) something that would have been of use to the enemy," Maj. Kris Meyle, who runs the embed program, told E&P from Baghdad this morning. "Generally, it gets done very quickly. Usually it was something that was not done intentionally by the reporter." . . . .

(Patiently awaits howling and whining about "free speech" suppression)

 

[GrGr]

Meh, who needs embedded journalists anyway. Pentagon should simply let military personnel handle all the reporting to make sure they get it "right".

 

[SuperTool]

It's funny that we are 3 weeks away from an election, and foreign observers need to be embedded with US troops for safety.

 

[mwtgg]

Well, I was talking to a marine who, while there's no embedded reported following him around, said [talking about the marine who shot the insurgent laying in the mosque] "Yeah, I'd kill him [the insurgent], only thing is, I'd turn around and shoot the reporter too."

Going by that situation and this one now, it seems to me that most reporters hinder more than they help.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Well, I was talking to a marine who, while there's no embedded reported following him around, said [talking about the marine who shot the insurgent laying in the mosque] "Yeah, I'd kill him [the insurgent], only thing is, I'd turn around and shoot the reporter too."

Going by that situation and this one now, it seems to me that most reporters hinder more than they help.

Many reporters now days want to make a name for themselves.

They feel a need top create the news rather than report it.

That can cause serious problems with operations in the field.

 

[GrGr]

Originally posted by: mwtgg


Going by that situation and this one now, it seems to me that most reporters hinder more than they help.

Yep, that's why there are no reporters in the Al Anbar province (formerly known as Falluja) anymore.

 

[conehead433]

If they had succeeded in getting rid of all the reporters a long time ago the military could have been able to plant WMDs out the ying-yang.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: conehead433
If they had succeeded in getting rid of all the reporters a long time ago the military could have been able to plant WMDs out the ying-yang.

Yeah, that's exactly what they'd do. Except that they could do that now, but nice try.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Well, I was talking to a marine who, while there's no embedded reported following him around, said [talking about the marine who shot the insurgent laying in the mosque] "Yeah, I'd kill him [the insurgent], only thing is, I'd turn around and shoot the reporter too."

Going by that situation and this one now, it seems to me that most reporters hinder more than they help.

Many reporters now days want to make a name for themselves.

They feel a need top create the news rather than report it.

That can cause serious problems with operations in the field.

Kind of generalizing, aren't you? Basing this off of something ONE marine said, and let's not forget, he was talking about shooting a reporter. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, am I the only one who sees something wrong with that? Oh yeah, and a couple of cases of reporters leaking something they shouldn't have. Fine, eject them. But attacking the whole independent press system based off of this smacks of a desperate desire to smack down the media whenever possible.

I can only guess at your motivation for THAT.

 

[daniel1113]

Now we just need to boot them out of America

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Now we just need to boot them out of America

Or calling them terrorist colaborators, and lock them up in Cuba.

 

[Tylanner]

:thumbsup:

 

[Rogue]

I've often wondered if our situation would be entirely different over there had some enterprising reporter NOT pushed the prisoner abuse scandal into the international media like they did. If they had simply recorded it for the historical facts of this conflict and left it out of the world's attention, we likely would have still had soliders going to jail for their actions and quite possibly the world wouldn't hate America so much. It was quite possibly the defining moment in the entire conflict where we looked as fvcked up as the situation is now. Ponder it for a bit before you fire back.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

They were probably reporting on shoe fashion in Iraq. Hush hush stuff these days.

 

[Gaard]

Originally posted by: Rogue
I've often wondered if our situation would be entirely different over there had some enterprising reporter NOT pushed the prisoner abuse scandal into the international media like they did. If they had simply recorded it for the historical facts of this conflict and left it out of the world's attention, we likely would have still had soliders going to jail for their actions and quite possibly the world wouldn't hate America so much. It was quite possibly the defining moment in the entire conflict where we looked as fvcked up as the situation is now. Ponder it for a bit before you fire back.

:roll:

I love people like this.

"Don't tell anyone that we did bad stuff...it makes us look bad."

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Rainsford

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: mwtgg
Well, I was talking to a marine who, while there's no embedded reported following him around, said [talking about the marine who shot the insurgent laying in the mosque] "Yeah, I'd kill him [the insurgent], only thing is, I'd turn around and shoot the reporter too."

Going by that situation and this one now, it seems to me that most reporters hinder more than they help.

Many reporters now days want to make a name for themselves.

They feel a need top create the news rather than report it.

That can cause serious problems with operations in the field.

Kind of generalizing, aren't you? Basing this off of something ONE marine said, and let's not forget, he was talking about shooting a reporter. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, am I the only one who sees something wrong with that? Oh yeah, and a couple of cases of reporters leaking something they shouldn't have. Fine, eject them. But attacking the whole independent press system based off of this smacks of a desperate desire to smack down the media whenever possible.

I can only guess at your motivation for THAT.

Please, he's not the only one who said they would have shot the reporter.

And if you don't understand that, you must not understand what goes on there.

Let's look at the possibilities:
1) Dead or fuc[/b]ked up from shrapnel in your face
2) In the brig for a long time
3) Nothing happening to you, go on as usual