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Saturday, 03 February 2007
Lt. Gen. Odierno responds to al-NYT malpractice

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Lt. Gen. Odierno writes to the NYTimes 
Michelle Malkin

Just received this from Multinational Corps - Iraq regarding the NYTimes' unspeakable violation (background):

I am writing to express my profound disappointment in The New York Times's decision to publish a photograph of a mortally wounded American soldier in its Jan. 29 issue and Web site posting.

Not only are the photograph and video offensive, the clear depiction is also directly counter to the written agreement made by the reporter and the photographer before publication.

The article that accompanied the photograph and Web site video, " 'Man Down': When One Bullet Alters Everything," by the reporter, Damien Cave, and the photographer, Robert Nickelsberg, was a story of soldiers operating in and around Haifa Street in Baghdad.

This story can and should be told. That is not in question. What is disturbing to me personally and, more important, to the family of the soldier depicted in the photograph and the video, is that the young man who so valiantly gave his life in the service of others was displayed for the entire world to see in the gravest condition and in such a fashion as to elicit horror at its sight. ...

Posted by Bill Faith on February 3, 2007 at 01:22 AM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Media Malpractice | Permalink

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