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Originally Posted by WagnerX5
Please...those weren't censored at all(  ). For someone with such "the govt. lied beliefs" I can't believe you're buying that. |
The reporter who is sharing his experiences in that article is Leon Daniel. He died earlier this year. Here is an article with his bio:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...032202369.html
Leon Daniel, 74, a colorful United Press International reporter who spent three decades covering many of the world's hot spots, died March 19 at a hospital in Glen Ellyn, Ill., from a blood clot in his lung, five days after a heart procedure.
A former Marine who spent 36 years with the wire service, Mr. Daniel reported on the civil rights movement in the South, rebel movements in Afghanistan and the Dominican Republic, and the Gulf War in Kuwait.
He first reported from Vietnam in 1966 and was one of the few Western reporters to remain in the country after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.
So basically you are saying that everything he says in that aritcle is a big lie?
I have a feeling you didn't read the article at all, but here is a summary of what he says:
1. Reporters were not allowed into any areas where fighting was taking place, and were only allowed in after the fighting was long over and the dead bodies had been cleaned up.
2. All photographs and video had to be approved by the Pentagon before reporters were allowed to leave with them. He cites a couple of specific cases where reporters had their cameras seized and destroyed for trying to subvert this policy
3. He says that more than 70 reporters were arrested by the US Military during the war for failing to follow their rules
4. He says not a single photograph or video was taken by any of the media from the initial invasion battle between 300,000 US troops and 300,000 Iraqi troops.
Read the article.