Red, I hope Dub will forgive me for being a bit off topic, but all the media reports from that war were heavily sanitized. All we saw were the video clips of the same "smart bombs" hitting their targets night after night....and the whole world read the same news, presented to journos from the same media room. They learned from Vietnam not to let the public see the carnage....because then they might not support the war.
"Publisher of Harper Magazine, John MacArthur, termed the Gulf War II as probably the most self censored war in history. �Ninety Five per cent of the war coverage was beside the point. It had nothing to do with the war. If you watched it carefully, it was trucks rolling on a highway, trucks and tanks, boxes being loaded, GIs talking about feeling lonely. And, so on and so forth. Precious little combat and almost no scenes of gore, of human beings having their bodies destroyed, their lives taken from them by American bombs and bullets.� (23)." http://www.medialens.org/articles/the_articles/media/as_smokescreen.pdf
Then, we had the US military threatening to fire on the positions of independant journalists using satellite phones : http://homepage.eircom.net/~gulufuture/news/kate_adie030310.htm
And a very good one: "FPF - Feb. 19th 2005 - ''Recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Eason Jordan, a CNN executive, told a panel that the U.S. military deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq.
He said he "knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank (Dem) from Massachusetts who was on the panel with Jordan.
"When we hear this statement with the knowledge that 63 journalists have been killed in Iraq, in addition to the fact that in a 14-month-period, more journalists were killed in Iraq than during the entire Vietnam War, one begins to get the feeling that the military clampdown on the media is more than a myth or a conspiracy theory'', Baghdad correspondent Dahr Jamail wrote. "
So the Sunday Times article doesnt sound as far fetched as one would think. If I rang them, I wonder if they would locate & give me a copy...I could then post it somehow.
