he conveyed AP's reply:
March 19, 2006 8:05 PM   Subscribe

At one point, after most of the vehicles had finally driven away, an Israeli soldier stuck his gun out of his armored vehicle, aimed at a pre-pubescent boy nearby, and pulled the trigger.

We discovered that an AP cameraman had filmed the entire incident.... What happened next is unfathomable. Did AP broadcast it? No. Did AP place the video in safe-keeping, available for an investigation of this crime? No.

According to its cameraman, AP erased it.
Linked from "The farcical end of the American 'free press'"
posted by orthogonality (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: when you have a real source, feel free to post.



 
So AP reports one story and is kicked out of the country. Any doubts this would happen? Not unique to Israel, if the AP publishes anything in the Middle East or many parts of the world that the government does not approve of, the AP may be kicked out.

If however, the AP is complicit in disseminating government propaganda, or in some circumstances, anti-government propaganda, depending on which way the wind is blowing, they may not only be encouraged to stay, but be given extra information not available to others.

For years, reporters have blackmailed government officials to leak to them, or threaten to expose them as leakers. Many Washington, D.C. staffers are now advised to never leak, no matter how strongly they feel, or they will be owned by whoever they leak to.

The news is dirty, no matter how you look at it.
posted by kablam at 8:19 PM on March 19, 2006


"According to the cameraman..."
So where's this cameraman's side of the story? They report at length on what everyone else at AP said ... yet there's not a word from the cameraman apart from the indirect quote.

If it's true, then it's pretty piss-poor on AP's part. But like WCM points out, this site is so slanted I'm giving them little benefit of the doubt.
posted by bonaldi at 8:20 PM on March 19, 2006


Let's talk after there's a shred of proof for this.
posted by Krrrlson at 8:53 PM on March 19, 2006


pix or it didnt happen
posted by obeygiant at 9:25 PM on March 19, 2006


Single link to a crackpot pseudonews site with no corroborating links from more ethical sources? Come on.
posted by aberrant at 9:30 PM on March 19, 2006


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