Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > okay I live way south of the canadian border (unfortunately) and despite > wishing canada will attack the US because of our weapons of mass > destruction and > take over northern california so we become part of canada, it > hasn't happened > yet, so, how do I get to see this program? > > > Kim I'm pretty sure that someone like PBS/Frontline etc will pick it up in the near future It really was a very compelling programme. It wasn't just talking heads and reminiscences, but also footage of the various types of journalists doing their work during the conflict - one of the most compelling sections was John Simpson, a veteran 30 year correspondent from the BBC - travelling independently with the Kurds, he was tagging along with a US Special Forces/Kurdish convoy in N Iraq. The Special Forces call in a strike on a target ahead of them and then gets accidentally bombed themselves by US Forces instead. Simpson keeps reporting (at one point he brushes off a US soldier who he thinks is trying to stop him, but is in fact offering first aid). His assistant/translator has lost both his legs and been killed and his cameraman keeps filming despite damage an injury to his left eye, which is a mass of blood at this point - his whole head and face bloody (from the camera's eye view you see the cameraman wiping his own blood from the front of the lens). These were not people who where here to kowtow to someone else's propaganda - they were going to tell the story that was in front of them. tim tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html