CBS CORRESPONDENT KILLED STORY AT PENTAGON'S REQUEST

[kpete]

CBS CORRESPONDENT KILLED STORY AT PENTAGON'S REQUEST

CBS Pentagon correspondent David Martin acknowledged Monday that he killed a report about how the U.S. was dealing with Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq after a senior military officer complained that it contained information useful to the enemy. Martin, writing on the CBS blog Public Eye, said that the report had been scheduled to air as the lead story on the CBS Evening News on Thursday and that he pulled it just one hour before airtime. "Not a good career move," he wrote. Martin further acknowledged that he had set aside other stories at the request of the Pentagon "a number of times over the years, and each time it's turned out that going with the story wouldn't have caused any harm." In the latest case, he said, he concluded that his report "might conceivably be news the enemy could use to make their IEDs more effective. It wasn't clear cut, but it was close enough."

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[pinto]

1. On specific stories, like this sounds to be, I can understand some self-

censorship, even though it's at the request of the Pentagon.

If there's information in the piece that has no larger bearing on the story, but could have adverse, and unintended, consequences, I think the journalist was making an informed decision.

Just my 2 cents.

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[GrpCaptMandrake]

4. Of course, we might ask why

our soldiers have to deal with IEDs.

That would be a heckuva story for David Martin, but he was too busy being caught up in the hell-bent sprint to a war based on lies, lies that he lapped up like a kitten over a bowl of cream. That makes him complicit in the traitorous answer to the question.

Screw David Martin.