--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29750.html > > Airstrike! The Pentagon simplifies media relations > By John Lettice > Posted: 13/03/2003 at 17:10 GMT > > > Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon > proposes to take radical > new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' > journalists will be shot > at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 > last Sunday veteran war > reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a > senior Pentagon official > that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite > phones, that are detected > by US aircraft are likely to be fired on.
It is possible, just possible, that this is the dumbest article in journalistic history. If you're on a battlefield and radiating an energy signature, there's a good chance that you'll look like a combatant. The United States uses antiradiation missiles. If you're sitting out in the desert radiating away, and you haven't informed the military where you are and who you are so that they can protect you, you are, almost certainly, going to get shot at. No kidding. Does this shock anyone? If you're on a battlefield, and you look like an enemy (someone radiating but who is not deconflicted by American systems is going to look like an enemy) you are going to get shot at. This is why they call it a battlefield. The Pentagon is saying, "Hey boys and girls, this is for-real. People get killed in a war. So take precautions." And this is spun as the Pentagon will shoot journalists? I guess that tells you what you need to know about the Register... Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
