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I previously recommended the milblog Andi’s World to you. Andi is an Army wife - “the toughest job in the Army” goes the old saying - and emailed me with a tip that Linda Foley, president of the 35,000-member Newspaper Guild asserted Friday that U.S. troops deliberately are killing journalists in Iraq. Blogs Andi,
Easongate all over again.
Echoing a claim that led to CNN executive Eason Jordan’s resignation, the president of the 35,000-member Newspaper Guild asserted U.S. troops deliberately are killing journalists in Iraq.
According to a tape of her remarks, Foley said: “Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or … ah, or … ah, politically. They are also being targeted for real, um … in places like Iraq. What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq.”
Foley continued, “They target and kill journalists … uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity. …”
Will they ever learn? Time to get the blogosphere cranking on this. More later.
Democracy Now! features links to audio of the speech and streaming video, which should tell you something. I have unsuccessfully searched for the text of the speech.
The “Easongate” reference is about the controversy over CNN’s chief news executive, Jordan Eason, who said in a public forum at the January 27 World Economic Forum that U.S. forces had deliberately targeted journalists. Eason resigned his position on Feb. 11.
Update: La Shawn Barber tried to call Ms. Foley but the Newspaper Guild isn’t answering the phone (their answering machine claimed - no fooling - that they are the victims of a calling conspiracy). Editor and Publisher says that Ms. Foley is already claiming her speech has been “distorted.” But E&P also includes the verbatim text of what she said relevant to this controversy:
“Journalists are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq. And what outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq. I think it’s just a scandal.”
“It’s not just U.S. journalists either, by the way. They target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries, at news services like Al Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios, with impunity. This is all part of the culture that it is OK to blame the individual journalists, and it just takes the heat off of these media conglomerates that are part of the problem.”
But let us not bother with minor things like evidence. E&P also includes this tidbit:
When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, “I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military. Could I have said it differently? There are 100 different ways of saying this, but I’m not sure they would have appeased the right.”
Seems she never heard the adage, “when you get to the bottom, stop digging.”
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May 19th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
‘But let us not bother with minor things like evidence’
Perhaps an anonymous source.
May 19th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
What can I say?
It just never ends, does it?I previously recommended the milblog Andi’s World to you. Andi is an Army wife - “the toughest job in the Army” goes the old saying - and em…
May 20th, 2005 at 12:02 am
So, it’s the “Military” targeting journalists, not “The Troops”?
The military isn’t much without troops. One would think that even a journalism major could figure that one out.
May 20th, 2005 at 9:53 am
Hummm, for some reason I can’t download the audio/video links today. Not sure if it’s just me or if they’ve been taken down. Wouldn’t be surprised if the latter is true.
May 20th, 2005 at 11:15 pm
So, it’s the “Military” targeting journalists, not “The Troops”?
Linda Foley obviously knows that charging the troops with a crime is a losing proposition – remember, support the troops – but forgot that it’s the troops that are the doers.
Or has she learned of the super-duper secret operation that allows key Bush administration officials to operate large-caliber weapons remotely in real time to shoot journalists, in a manner similar to that which the CIA uses to control Hellfire-missile-equipped drones?
The reason W hits the sack early is so that he can get up around 3:00 or 4:00 AM EDT (11:00 AM to noon Baghdad time) and view 132 gun site pictures currently available on the Project MSM Flush display. The system can be accessed from the Oval Office desktop system, White House family quarters Xbox, the VP residence’s wireless systems, Rumsfeld’s limousine’s laptop, Rice’s PDA, Bush’s Trek bicycle’s GameBoy, and, on a subscription basis, to certain RNC contributors’ Blackberrys.
Users simply scroll through the thumbnails, each of which is updated every six seconds, looking for the telltale sign of an enemy reporter. Should the user spot something of interest in one of the thumbnails, he can click on it for a full-screen image that’s updated at the rate of thirty frames per second. If a target of interest presents itself, the user may navigate the gun sights over the target and click to fire a three-round burst at the target, with multiple clicks generating multiple bursts. In most cases the user has to make do with the caliber and capability of the pre-positioned weapon.
Available bandwidth limits the system to two users simultaneously, a feature that’s caused early heated morning phone calls among the participants. To make things fairer, weapons have been removed from the bars of major Baghdad hotels.
How did Ms. Foley find this out?
May 21st, 2005 at 12:35 am
Bread and Media Circuses: Foley’s Folly
Linda Foley, national president of The Newspaper Guild, has leveled the same inflammatory accusations of the US military intentionally targeting journalists as Eason Jordan did in Davos last February.
May 22nd, 2005 at 12:34 am
A Linda K Foley Timeline of Events
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May 24th, 2005 at 11:58 pm
A Linda K. Foley Timeline of Events
*Note: All dates are linked to a source. This timeline will be updated occasionally as it will be the go-to document for watershed events regarding this story. EASON JORDAN January 27, 2005 Location: Davos, Switzerland - The World Econ…
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