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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
What about when the Beeb (world service) was reporting that US forces were not in Baghdad when all the other stations were shooting us footage of the airport and tanks rolling into downtown? It was a lie (unlikely) or stupidity (more likely). Either way it was embarrassing journalism.
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This is how these things are perpetuated. He was told, live on air, that US troops had entered Baghdad, he said "...well I can't see them". That's not a lie is it? Of course he had been taken to the location by the Iraqi authorites so his comments need to be taken in that context. Just as those comments by inbedded journalists had to be taken in context.