It is Pentagon Policy to Target Journalists

Apologists for the recently released video from 2007 showing US military personnel firing on civilians have been trying to make it clear that the soldiers "mistook" the journalists' photography equipment for weapons. Very few big-time media networks have covered the release of this video.

How trained soldiers could mistake photography equipment for weapons is hard to understand. There are pro-US militias operating in Iraq, so even if they did honestly mistake the media equipment for weapons, they still fired indiscriminately at targets that had done nothing to provoke them, targets that could have been their friends.

Pentagon Publicist Victoria Clarke said that journalists who were not approved by the Pentagon were "putting themselves at risk" by working in US war zones. Eason Jordan, former head of CNN's news division, admitted in 2005 that it is US military policy to kill journalists in the Middle East that aren't working for the Pentagon. During a panel discussion in Switzerland, Jordan said he "knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy."

Jordan was fired from CNN and faced harsh criticism from both Democratic and Republican politicians after his 2005 comment.

In 2003, Kate Adie, former chief news correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation, told Radio One Ireland that media not “embedded” with the Pentagon in Iraq would be targeted by the US.

Taras Protsyuk of the British news agency Reuters and Jose Couso of the Spanish network Telecino were killed by US troops in 2003 while at the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad. The United States military targeted the offices of Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV, two Arabic-language news networks, on the same day. This all happened simply because these journalists weren't approved by the Pentagon.

Below are the URL's to other Partisan entries about who really controls the American media.

Does the CIA Control the Media?
http://partisan-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/cia-controls-media.html

Pulitzer Prize Winner Reveals Media-Pentagon Connection
http://partisan-news.blogspot.com/2009/06/pulitzer-prize-winner-reveals-media.html