Wow, I can't find these in my normal news sources. I found them in the "daily briefing" at the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB.com).
First, one of our "own" wants cameras locked out of war again. And it's not Zell Miller. Why is this happening now that the reporters are giving us some negative stuff?
Congressman Wants Reporters Barred from Iraq Conflict
"Democratic Congressman Sylvestre Reyes of Texas, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, proposed Thursday that the practice of allowing reporters to be embedded with soldiers in combat zones in Iraq be ended. His remarks follow the release of television footage taken last Saturday of a U.S. soldier shooting an unarmed and wounded man in a Fallujah mosque. "We should not be providing the
al-Jazeera the kind of propaganda they've had the last couple of three days ," he said. Meanwhile, at a meeting of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal, Eason Jordan, vice president and chief news executive at CNN, accused the U.S. military of failing to live up to its promises to protect journalists from attack by its own men. "The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the U.S. military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces," Jordan said. Although the military has promised to investigate the incidents, he said, "the fact that no one has been reprimanded would indicate that no one is taking responsibility."
And if you were going to move to Canada, remember this: cancer spreads. Love that last line, though.
Canada Opens Doors to Fox News Channel
"Canada's broadcasting regulator, the CRTC, has approved a petition by the Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association to carry Fox News Channel in Canada, rejecting public complaints that the channel represented a propaganda organ of the Bush White House. Writing in today's (Friday) Toronto Star, media columnist Antonia Zerbisias observed that a recent University of Maryland study indicated that 80 percent of Fox viewers are likely to believe "that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, that Saddam and Al Qaeda were linked, and that the world approved of the U.S.'s attack on the country." Nevertheless, she added, "with freedom of information comes the freedom to disinformation."
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