Nice. Why don’t you have your own blog, smart-guy? Powerline quotes Uncle Jefe’s observations that the first footage of the hit press van showed a dark armored vehicle, and not the white vehicle now being represented as the truck. One……

Sh*t happens in war, especially to those journalists visiting front lines with the intention of filing a false and/or distorted story about what is happening.

What else did they intend to do? How do you come by your information? Does a flying missile know what they intended to do?

I think he’s commenting on the risks that are present with respect to reporters who embed with a terrorist organization.

And turn around is fair play. What would the media be saying if a reporter embedded with the IDF was accidently killed by Hezbollah fire?

Sh*t happens in war, especially to those journalists visiting front lines with the intention of filing a false and/or distorted story about what is happening.

What else did they intend to do? How do you come by your information? Does a flying missile know what they intended to do?

Oh, and where is the front line in Gaza?

At Night All Cats Are Grey: Israeli Airstrike Hits Reuters Vehicle (Video report @ Hot Air) — Capt. Noa Meir, an army spokeswoman, said the vehicle was the only one in the combat area, was driving suspiciously and came……

:-)

And on and on. Sabra and Shatila was, it seems, a horror unparalleled in human history — capable of justifying atrocity after atrocity after atroctity committed by fundamentalists in the name of Islam.

Frankly, I think that Lebanese Christians have paid the price of Sabra and Shatila, an attack committed by Lebanese Christians.

As for Israel’s complicity in Sharon’s turning a blind eye, someone please direct me to the instances when Arabs have protected or defended Israel from attacks by anyone.

If they are going into the territory of terrorists to get a news story, then they have assumed the risks and if they get into trouble or are kiled in the middle of this conflict, they made the choice.

Like Steve Centanni made the choice to go into Gaza. Like Danny Pearl made the choice to go into Pakistan. Like Jill Carroll made the choice to go into Iraq. Like Giuliana Sgrena went… [Disregard that - Ed.]

Yes, these are dangerous places, but I hope we can all agree that we like having reporters in them to tell us what we’d otherwise not know. How well, or how honestly they do their jobs is a second question that comes well after the one in which we decide whether we mind them being killed/kidnapped/etc…

But neither do I see any reason to wring my hands. They chose to be in a war zone, and in doing so, they assume all the risks.

The difference between the Fox crew and these reporters is (1) the Fox people were DELIBERATELY kidnapped and threatened by the very people they were going to report on, and (2) the Reuters people were accidently struck by a combatant (not the residents) during operations in a war zone.

I don’t consider them to be equivalent issues.

I’ll make no bones that I am still turned off by Reuters over their peddling of photoshopped pictures to aid and abet Hezbollah’s propaganda. I remain unconvinced that it was “accidental” either.

But that doesn’t make me want to gloat over the misfortune of men just trying to do their job — even if I don’t agree about the way they are doing it or their biases.

Jeff Harrell had the ultimate line on Wikipedia’s “trustworthiness”:

What do you get when you stir a spoon of shit in a gallon of ice? A gallon of shit.

So let’s not do the same. I would think that expressing joy or satisfaction over al-Reuters getting hit over this would probably make us look like a bunch of turds.

So much for that… judging from some of the comments above.

If turds run downhill, my comment better have a big umbrella.

If there’s one thing we learned from the Lebanon fiasco, it’s that we can’t trust the press to give us the low down on what’s happening, either. As if we didn’t know that already…

Sure, Reuters has been cheerleading for Hezbollah since Day One, but is that any reason for the IDF to attack a Reuters news crew in Lebanon? The IDF says it was unintentional ……

Driving around at night…

in the middle of a combat raid…

in an armored truck,…

and they got shot…

D’uh!

I’m having a hard time feeling sympathetic.

…if they get into trouble or are kiled in the middle of this conflict, they made the choice.

Umnumzana on August 26, 2006 at 10:37 PM

From AP:

Two missiles fired by Israeli aircraft early Sunday morning hit an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency and wounded a television cameraman inside, Palestinian witnesses said.
The Israeli army said it was checking the……

Little Green Footballs

Air strike hurts two journalists in Gaza: doctors.

GAZA (Reuters) – Two journalists were wounded by an Israeli air strike that hit a Reuters vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday, doctors and residents said.

One of the journalists,…

Israeli rocket hits Reuters car An Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City during a security operation has injured a Reuters news agency cameraman and a local journalist. At least one rocket hit the car as the cameraman…

The DU and Daily KOS crowd were jubilant when the FOX reporters were kidnapped.

I missed that, but deliberately so. I went with “ignorance is bliss.” Thank you for at least not providing quotes.

“Screw ‘em” probably wouldn’t be appropriate here, either.

Until it finally hit me that TD could also refer to The Drifter. And then, with a little more reading, it made sense.

Now I’m not blamin’ AP for makin’ me feel like a half-retarded monkey for a couple of minutes with that abreviation. I’m just mentioning it.