In Baghdad, NBC Comes Under Fire, Twice

[dennis4868]

It was a world exclusive for NBC's Jim Miklaszewski, the only television reporter able to show footage of the devastating attack on a Baghdad hotel that narrowly missed Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

But some U.S. officials in Iraq raised fierce objections and tried to block Miklaszewski and his cameraman from filming the scene. "The NBC journalists conducted themselves in a wholly inappropriate, uncaring and insensitive manner," says Gary Thatcher, communications chief for the U.S. occupation authority. "Instead of rendering or summoning aid, they focused on gathering video footage of people in agonizingly painful situations . . . in order to boost the ratings."

Says Miklaszewski: "I realized they were very emotional, very upset, that they had been attacked. But frankly, we had a job to do -- cover the attack on the al-Rashid Hotel as best we could. We were being as unobtrusive as we possibly could. . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20109-2003Nov9.html

A couple of things about this that bothers me:

1. NBC has been in bed with Bush since the 2000 Election fraud so this so-called government has no right to come down hard on NBC....NBC has been out their promoting this war for over a year now! and

2. Bush's government has no problems using young men and women to fight Bush's/Cheney's war for Halliburton and for oil but when there are injuries and deaths among these young soldiers they hide them behind the curtain so no one can see what is really happening in Iraq! They are disgusting people. Bush does not even attend funerals for the soldiers.....sad!

[Brucey]

1. Everything is political and propaganda for Bush and friends.

Everything. They are psychopaths who have no consciences.