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Thursday, 01 February 2007

The NYTimes' unspeakable violation
Michelle Malkin

Before Bryan Preston and I embedded at FOB Justice, we had to read and agree to a clear set of ground rules, including this one:

Apparently, the NYTimes didn't think the rules applied to them. Yesterday, the Houston Chronicle blew the whistle on an appalling violation of those rules by Times reporters, who posted a photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq--before the family had been notified:

A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York Times have triggered anger from his relatives and Army colleagues and revived a long-standing debate about which images of war are proper to show.

The journalists involved, Times reporter Damien Cave and Getty Images photographer Robert Nickelsberg, working for the Times, had their status as so-called embedded journalists suspended Tuesday by the Army corps in Baghdad, military officials said, because they violated a signed agreement not to publish photos or video of any wounded soldiers without official consent.  ...

Posted by Bill Faith on February 1, 2007 at 12:52 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Media Malpractice | Permalink

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