Mari333
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Thu Feb-11-10 11:47 AM
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It Takes a BBC Reporter to Cover Obama's War |
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Thu Feb-11-10 11:49 AM
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1. "Obama's War - Episode 1 of 31" I will have to bookmark |
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for later viewing. Thanks for the post.
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Thu Feb-11-10 11:58 AM
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2. I'll have to watch later as well |
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But that sounds about right. In 2006, the BBC stayed with us, camping with us and eating with us for a week solid, while the US media did occasional 15 minute press conferences. The BBC ran a 20 minute documentary style piece on the IVAW in the gulf coast.
At one point the US media did a press conference - and instead of interviewing the US soldiers, I remember them interviewing the BBC reporters. (!)
I was appalled by that, and I remember the BBC reporter saying in that interview that he had been all over the world covering everything from wars to apartheid, and he had never seen a place where the police were so hostile to reporters. (He got ticketed at one point on that trip for leaning against a car - even though he was trying to tell police it was his own car.)
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