Was Eason Jordan Correct?

Bumped from an earlier post. I thought this appropriate, after reading about Bush and his need to bomb Al Jazeera. First Eason Jordan was forced to resign because of his comments about US forces firing on reporters. OH MY, he did NOT say that, did he? Yup, he did. Then, of course, there was the Italian journalist saga, in which, to this day, the US has refused to return the automobile that the Italian was in with others. See, this vehicle will prove the Italian journalist was right, and that the target was the individuals inside the car, and not the car's engine, as the US story is told.

As noted below, this war has seen more journalists killed than in any other war we've been a part of.

This administration has been obsessed with controlling the media througout its entire term. I am wondering just how long the Bush gang believed these reporters and newspaper owners would cowtow to them, and when they would wake up to their senses.

Now, with things crumbling all around them, the Bush crew seem to have lost their "luster" and MSM, although slow, is starting to stretch its legs. Hopefully, they'll find them in time to stand up. Even more hopefully, they'll find they still have legs, and that this administration didn't really cut them off at the knees.
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BAGHDAD, Aug 28 (Reuters) - A Reuters Television soundman as shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday and a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers.

Iraqi police said they had been shot by U.S. forces. A U.S. military spokesman said the incident was being investigated.

Waleed Khaled, 35, was hit by a shot to the face and at least four to the chest as he drove to check a report from police sources of an incident involving police and gunmen in the Hay al-Adil district, in the west of the city.

"A team from Reuters news agency was on assignment to cover the killing of two policemen in Hay al-Adil; U.S. forces opened fire on the team from Reuters and killed Waleed Khaled, who was shot in the head, and wounded Haider Kadhem," an Interior Ministry official quoted the police incident report as saying.

And what about Giuliana Sgrena?

The U.S. military said Sgrena's car rapidly approached a checkpoint Friday night, and those inside ignored repeated warnings to stop.

Troops used arm signals and flashing white lights, fired warning shots in front of the car, and shot into the engine block when the driver did not stop, the military said in a statement.

But in an interview with Italy's La 7 Television, the 56-year-old journalist said "there was no bright light, no signal."

And Italian magistrate Franco Ionta said Sgrena reported the incident was not at a checkpoint, but rather that the shots came from "a patrol that shot as soon as they lit us up with a spotlight."

In an interview with Sky TV, Sgrena said "feeling yourself covered with avalanche of gunfire from a tank that is beside you, that did not give you any warning that it was about to attack if we did not stop -- this is absolutely inconceivable even in normal situations, even if they hadn't known that we were there, that we were supposed to come through."

Was Eason Jordan correct?

BAGHDAD -- More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March, 2003, than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said yesterday.