Disgusting! WAKE UP, MSM, because EVEN YOU are NOT IMMUNE if you buck the FASCIST STATE!
WAKE UP, MSM, or else, YOU ARE ENABLING TOOLS!!!
The LIGHT IS ON YOU, MSM!!!!
Nothing about the ILLEGAL SPYING TODAY?
Down the rabbit hole, 'eh?
"Case Lays Bare the Media’s Reliance on Iraqi Journalists" by TIM ARANGO
Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photographer who had a hand in The Associated Press’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize for photography before being jailed without charges by the United States military, finally had a day in court last week. But his story, which highlights the unprecedented role that Iraqis are playing in news coverage of the war, is really just beginning.
He was held for around 20 months by the military — in Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere, with no right to contest his detention — before being turned over to an Iraqi magistrate, who will act as a one-man grand jury and decide if there is enough evidence to link him to the insurgency. He has not been formally charged with a crime.
The Associated Press has staunchly defended Mr. Hussein, pointing out that his role as a journalist involved getting close to the insurgency. Over the last three years, the American military has held at least eight other Iraqi journalists for periods of weeks or month without charges and released them all, apparently unable to find ties to the insurgency, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit organization.
The Associated Press, in a statement last week, noting that Mr. Hussein was still being detained without formal charges:
"[Mr. Hussein and his lawyers] were not given a copy of the materials that were presented and which they need to prepare a defense. The Associated Press continues to believe that claims Bilal is involved with insurgent activities are false.”
How's it feel, MSM?!
WAKE the FUCK UP, you damn bastards!
A spokesman for the military, in a lengthy e-mail message:
"[Mr. Hussein had been detained as] an imperative security threat [and that he has persistently been] treated fairly, humanely and in accordance with all applicable law. [Mr. Hussein has been named by] sources as having possessed foreknowledge of an improvised explosive device (I.E.D.) attack [on American and Iraqi forces], that he was standing next to the I.E.D. triggerman at the time of the attempted attack, and that he conspired with the I.E.D. triggerman to synchronize his photograph with the explosion.”
The e-mail message did not say whether the photograph in question is the one that Mr. Hussein took in Falluja on Nov. 8, 2004, of Iraqi insurgents firing a mortar and small arms, which was among the 20 from The Associated Press that collectively won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.
The military spokesman said further:
“The Associated Press was informed that the sources had reported Mr. Hussein’s knowing and willing offer to provide a false Iraqi national identification card to an alleged sniper, whom Mr. Hussein knew was wanted [by the military] in order to assist the sniper in eluding capture.”
For its part, The Associated Press hired a New York lawyer and former prosecutor, Paul Gardephe, to investigate the situation. He published a 46-page report that concluded “there is no evidence — in nearly a thousand photographs taken over the 20-month period — that his activities ever strayed from those of a legitimate journalist.” Mr. Gardephe was in Iraq last week defending Mr. Hussein.
The role of Iraqis as front-line reporters, and the dangers they face working for Western news organizations, is well known. In a few recent examples, in October a journalist for The Washington Post, Salih Saif Aldin, was shot dead in a Baghdad neighborhood rife with sectarian violence. That death occurred three months after a local journalist working for The New York Times was killed in the same area. Of the 124 journalists killed in Iraq since the war began, 102 have been Iraqi, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
And while Western journalists do depend on Iraqi freelancers, several news organizations, including The New York Times, continue to have resident correspondents who leave their compounds to report in Baghdad and beyond.
Several editors and reporters overseeing Iraqi coverage for Western news organizations said they worked hard to vet their local hires for sectarian and political ties that could slant their coverage, and offered extensive training in the rules of Western journalism. But there are no official background checks that can be conducted, as American and European companies routinely do when making domestic hires. Rather, news organizations try to get to know their prospective Iraqi hires in person and then judge them by the work they produce.
John Daniszewski, The Associated Press’s international editor:
“A person is usually recommended by another journalist and brought in for an interview, and you sit down and have a long discussion with that person. Like any job applicant in the states, people go through a probationary period. They are given lessons, it’s like an apprenticeship relationship. When you are working side by side, you get to know the person, and if the person seems unreliable, or if you ever see someone not completely honest with you, he is out the door.”
The reporters and editors said that they often had to filter out obvious sectarian biases from news copy, and, as a matter of policy, would not run statistics like death counts from the field without official confirmation from the military.
So AMERIKA'S PAPERS are the MILITARY'S PAPERS, readers!
WAR Dailies, as I call them!
But, these journalists emphasized, there is a big difference between bias seeping into news copy and insurgents infiltrating news organizations.
As if AmeriKa's Zio-press has any right to complain about bias and infiltration!
Fucking Zionist filter an agenda-pusher!
According to The Associated Press, Mr. Hussein, a 36-year-old member of a prominent Falluja farming family, had a modest job history before the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq: he worked in a grocery store, an auto parts joint and handed out goods as part of a United Nations assistance program. Photography was his hobby, and an uncle had set up a darkroom for him.
When soldiers and journalists flooded into Falluja in April 2004, Mr. Hussein began working as a driver and helper for The Associated Press.
Mr. Daniszewski: “He said he always wanted to be a professional photographer, and we had a need there. We gave him training, equipment and he just did good work.”
In April 2006, Mr. Hussein was detained in Ramadi by the United States military, which said it had evidence linking him to the insurgency, but did not press charges. The situation has not dissuaded foreign news organizations from continuing to lean heavily on local stringers.
Marjorie Miller, the foreign editor of The Los Angeles Times: “They’re essential. We couldn’t do our job without them, more so than in any other war we’ve covered.”
David Schlesinger, the editor in chief of Reuters: "Using local staff is something we do everywhere in the world. But it’s become so dangerous in Iraq, we’re even more dependent on local staff there than in other places.”
In any foreign outpost, Western news organizations rely on locals to get the job done, often as drivers or translators.
Joel Campagna, Middle East program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists:
“The reliance on local staff is nothing new, whether it be in the West Bank, or Gaza or other places. News organizations know how to vet and scrutinize information; however, Iraq is the most dangerous conflict we’ve seen at C.P.J. in our 26 years. In Iraq, the ubiquity and scale of danger has really hampered the ability of journalists to gather news.”
And then we get fed Zionist lies about it!
Mr. Hussein is one of more than 24,000 individuals held by the American military worldwide, most in Iraq, according to statistics cited by The Associated Press. But not even the nudging of a giant Western news organization was enough keep him from spending 20 months behind bars without being formally charged with a crime.
And if A.P. can't get any movement, what chance does little old you or me have, readers?
Sig Heil, huh?
Linda A. Malone, a law professor at the College of William and Mary who advised the Justice Department during the trial of Saddam Hussein:
“The Iraqi courts seem to be completely overwhelmed. There’s a tremendous backlog. That’s not to say this one might not be a priority. Hopefully that would be the case given the issue of journalistic freedom versus national security.”
So a reporter sits in jail for no reason, huh?
WAKE UP, MSM, or I am forced to recognize you as ENABLERS of FASCISM!!
So what's it gonna be, NYT?
I think I already know the answer, which is why you are here and not there, readers!
The NYT publishes these stories, but they go right away, and the NYT picks up the agenda-pushing lying quickly enough!
It's a GAME of FOOLEYS!
See you in the camps, Times!
