Re: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaign medal

[Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net>]

Ted;
I'm afraid it'll be much worse than just accepting one.
I can see one day an Association of Embedded Veterans, with blazers and
cravats. They'll be allowed to march in the Veteran's Day parade. TV
documentaries will vie for the last surviving members to tell us like it
was. They will ultimately control history through the usual process of
attrition, and the academics will scratch their heads wonder how they went
around them.
S. Dimitrov 


> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:18:41 -0800
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaign
> medal
> 
> Tim Atherton offered this news:
>> Subject: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaign
>> medal<<<<<
> 
> B. D. Colen said:
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaign
> medal
> 
> 
>> In regard to journalists, this is so utterly appallingly, disgustingly,
>> horrifyingly...What's it going to be called? The Propagandist
> Medal?<<<<<,,
> 
> Hi B. D. & Tim,
> I can't imagine any news person worth their salt accepting the medal as it
> would make he or she look like a Richard Cranium! Or worse, a Rectal
> Orifice!
> 
> Just a government ploy to hopefully keep a lid on truthful stories not yet
> revealed. Or to make sure the embeds keep their mouths shut.
> 
> It's an insult to the world of journalism and should be written up in that
> manner. What, they got a medal for lying or keeping their mouths shut? And
> no matter which way it gets cut it's a black day for the news medium.
> 
> Is there any previous war time situations where media received a medal for
> doing their job?
> 
> ted
> 
> 
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