The Media Drop

Over at The Command Post, Laurence Simon posts about the capture of an Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, in Iraq. As you might have expected, the captors have said that if Italian troops didn’t leave Iraq, they “could not guarantee his safety.”

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Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall of the Star-Ledger’s “All TV” column cover a debate going on in the media world - was the way the news media covered the War in Iraq handled correctly?

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Who screwed up here? Cori Dauber writes that over the weekend, the family of Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the U.S. Marine who was kidnapped in Iraq, found out about his disappearance and subsequent capture from a media outlet - and not the military - though it unclear which network it was. Both Hassoun […]

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CableNewser has another scoop - this time, it’s a letter from Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to journalists who are covering the war in Iraq.
The letter is in response to a statement Wolfowitz made on Tuesday in front of the House Armed Services Committee that “came out much differently” than he expected. He was […]

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Michele over at ASV writes about an announcement released by United States CENTCOM (Central Command) yesterday. According to CENTCOM, two news cameramen and a reporter working in Iraq were questioned after reportedly being tipped off to be at a particular location before a particular time. An explosion later took place at the site […]

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Editor & Publisher’s, Dave Astor writes today about columnist Cal Thomas’ comments on Fox News a few days ago, where Thomas stated that the media censoring itself regarding the war might be something he’d agree with.

Thomas said voluntary censorship “might force some in the media who believe anything they know or can find out is […]

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Commenters at Lost Remote are talking about the Nicholas Berg video, and how there seem to be some discrepancies. The ones I noted myself are the lack of struggle by Mr. Berg and the lack of blood (sorry for the detail) when his throat is seemingly slit for the first time. While I […]

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In recent weeks, radio talk shows have been claiming that the acts at Abu Ghraib prison pale in comparison to events like Nicholas Berg’s beheading and the random “terror” attacks on soldiers and Western invidivuals in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ll start this off by saying that if Americans don’t think that humiliation, harassment, or […]

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Lots of people have been talking about the Nicholas Berg video, and whether or not that the news media should be showing it in its entirety for the viewers. I had thought that it would have shown up somewhere mainstream by now, but I hadn’t found it anywhere big. However - after viewing […]

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Yesterday’s post about an AP article stating that Iraq was the worst place for journalists to be seems to have some competition from the #5 worst place to be from that study - Bangladesh.
According to this article by Patricia Nunan at Voice of America, Bangladesh is the worst place for journalists. The study points […]

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