Fallujah Video Has Congressman Calling For Reporter Ban

[lucky wilbury]

http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=22321

FALLUJAH VIDEO HAS CONGRESSMAN CALLING FOR REPORTER BAN
Nov 18, 2004


CAPITOL HILL(AP) -- The videotaped shooting of a Fallujah combatant by a U-S Marine has evoked strong emotions in the Arab world and on Capitol Hill.

Texas Democrat Sylvestre Reyes (sil-VEHS'-tree RAY'-uhs) says it's time to rethink the presence of embedded reporters in combat zones. During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, Reyes compared it to a football game, saying "we don't want to know everything that's going on on the field." Reyes says this is not censorship. In his words, "We should not be providing the Al-Jazeera the kind of propaganda they've had the last couple of three days."

Marine Corps commandant General Michael Hagee disagrees, saying embedded reporters have actually worked very well and inform the American public about "what these great young Americans are doing over there."

(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

AP-NY-11-18-04 0235EST

[smaz]

Yet they can film beheadings????

[alexpgrimes]

Reporters shouldn't be over there. We don't need to know everything that goes on over there. Our problem is that we are to civilized. To deal with those animals over there we should act like they do. That is the only thing they understand..

[Nickdfresh]

I go with the wise Marine Corp Commandant General Hagee. You have to take the bad with the good, because the good outweighs the bad and the military needs all the positive exposure it can get if there is any hope of making it out of this debacle with any sort of positive outcome!