Reuters Murders (cartoon)

Ogre-oid: update - If You Can't Turst Reuters...

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?

Ogre-oid: (video) U.S. Army Slaughtering Civilians (and Reporters) in Iraq

Not for the weak stomached.