Reply #7: Shame on our "journalists" for not following their lead. [View All]

The media intimidation by the Bush war machine is visible for all to see. It's been going on for a year now. Remember the US tank that fired a blast at the journalists' Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad because they were filming a demonstration. The US then claimed the tank commander "thought" it was a rifle aimed at them. Bullshit. I've worked tanks in combat. You don't mistake a camera for a rifle--especially when it's in an international journalists' hotel in a room right above the sign with the name of the hotel in english. It's time to say these are not just coincidence. They are targeted assassinations of Arab journalists, trying to teach them the same lessons the cowed American journalistic community has already "learned."