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Title: Good Evening. Welcome to FOX News
Post by: Howey on March 22, 2011, 10:11:59 am
From FOX News and Drudge:

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EXCLUSIVE:  An attack on the compound of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi on Sunday had to be curtailed because of journalists nearby, Fox News has learned.

British sources confirmed that seven Storm Shadow missiles were ready to be fired from a British aircraft, but the strikes had to be curtailed due to crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations nearby. Officials from Libya's Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields.

Their reporter, however? Steve Harrington?

"Tonight I'll be reporting from my safe, comfortable hotel room in Libya (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/21/exclusive-libyans-use-journalists-human-shields/#content).

About Fox's claim the reporters were human shields? Really (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103210027)?

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WOLF BLITZER: I want you to explain what you know about this suggestion Fox news reporting that you, a Reuters crew, some other journalists were effectively used by Qaddafi as a human shield to prevent allied fighter planes from coming in and attacking a certain position. Explain what you know about this.

ROBERTSON: Wolf, this allegation is outrageous and it’s absolutely hypocritical. When you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from a dictatorship here. You don’t expect it from the other journalists. [...]

They sent a member of their team. He was not editorial. He was nontechnical, not normally a cameraman. [...]

I see [Fox's corespondent] more times at breakfast than out on trips with government officials here. So for them to say and call this — to say they didn’t go and for them to call this and say this was government propaganda to hold us there as human shields when they didn’t even leave the hotel, it’s ridiculous.


Title: Re: Good Evening. Welcome to FOX News
Post by: FooFa on March 22, 2011, 10:32:23 am

I hope Fox ratings tank. It seems that 'pretend' is so much a part of their mo that they can't act their way out of a paper bag. I think CNN belabored the point a bit much, not saying that they should have said nothing, it's just not something Cronkite would have done :D. Plus, isn't the very nature of human shield, strictly when those being used have no choice such as Saddam with the hospitals and armed men occupying citizen's homes...