Saturday, February 28, 2004

 

A Word to the Wise....

On February 27th 1933, Germany's parliment building, the Reichstag, caught fire.  The Nazis, blaming the Communists, used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.

    ~*~ Does this sound similar to the present situaton in America?

And they said, "It couldn't happen here...."   - F. Zappa

Cronkite Worried About War Coverage

When Cronkite went to Vietnam, he showed Americans a side of war many had never seen. Unlike reporters who covered the battles in Iraq, Cronkite wasn't embedded.

 

While Cronkite praised the work the embedded reporters in Iraq, he doesn't think that viewers were given the whole story. But he admits that the coverage was better than what viewers saw during the Gulf War (news - web sites).

"That was far better than anything we had during the elder Bush's first war down there, where they blacked us out completely. They actually violated our constitution practically for the free press and the freedom of information, in a situation where here our boys and girls are committed to battle, and we're not permitted to know how they are doing."

But he also says the Bush administration is going too far by not allowing news organizations to take pictures of the caskets returning from Iraq.

"This is really a shame, if not a sin, that this administration sent these people overseas, has committed us to this war, and is unwilling to face the music as to the result of that decision," Cronkite said. "We showed the ceremonies every night during Vietnam."

 

posted by ~Brahma 12:07 AM