David Schlesinger, the editor in chief of Reuters, declined to run a story by one of his own reporters containing claims that the 2007 killings of two Reuters staffers in Baghdad by U.S. troops may have been war crimes.
Reuters staffers Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh were killed by U.S. helicopter gunships in Baghdad in 2007. Video of the attack, which shows the journalists standing next to unidentified armed men on a Baghdad street and records the destruction of a van attempting to retrieve a wounded Chmagh, was published this week by Wikileaks. more
This is very bothersome. Are any of the major news organizations that can actually afford to have people in the places where news is happening not corrupted by their allegiance to advertisers?
what's a shame is that most people watch this video to enjoy the shock and awe war machine doin' it's thing--very little attention will be paid to how horrendous the act was. The NY Times followed up the release of the footage with a front page article about how the footage has made the website that circulated it more popular! Nothing about how sadistic and illegal it was . . . only more digital hype.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't watch, listening was bad enough. These cocky jocks (and what other kind of person becomes a military pilot?) getting a rush out of slaughtering a bunch of strangers in the streets is more than sickening.
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