Re: Headgear

At 11:48 AM -0800 11/27/03, John Atkinson wrote:
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>Frankly, CNN has one of the worst reputations for
>biased coverage and body-count news.  Besides which,
>as near as we can tell, they try to cover the war

CNN's management have very little love for the 
Iraqi Regime. Having had several contacts that 
our current Managing News Editor end up Dead in 
Kuwiat (parts mailed back to the family) kind of 
tainted Eason's view of the Baathist. We sat in a 
Division Town Hall meeting prior to the start of 
the war and listened to this.

>without leaving their cushy Baghdad hotel.  Reminds me
>of the stories my father tells of reporters from
>Vietnam who filed every one of their stories from the
>Saigon bars.

I know for a fact that some of our embedded 
reporters were with the troops in the field. Fred 
Gamel's son had one of our guys with his Mar-Div 
in Basra. Knowing that the guy who ran the phone 
system he was patching into had a son in that 
Marine unit, the reporter found Matt and got him 
in touch with his dad a few times.

Keep in mind that there were plenty of reporters 
from many different units around moving all 
around. Part of the CNN mode is to gather news 
from disparate sources including other 
international agencies and use that to magnify 
what we report on (AP, Reuters, affiliates, etc). 
The source for CNN might be a writer from another 
agency that exchanges news with CNN.
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