Iraq news reports

[ll_billym]

Sometimes on radio and television when a reporter is reporting from Iraq, before the report the presenter in the studio says something like "This report is subject to restrictions".  Who vets the reports and what are the restrictions??

[Quizmonster]

Some reporters are "embedded" with actual military units. That is, they travel with them and report from the actual sites of battles etc. Obviously, the Commanding Officer of such a unit will sometimes be unprepared to allow certain information to be broadcast if - for example - he feels it might compromise his men or any future action they undertake. As a result, reporters will sometimes have to submit a copy of the 'script' they plan to use in front of the camera to the CO or his representative for vetting to ensure no secret or sensitive material is pumped out on the world's airwaves.

Personally, I have no idea why the military even permit these people to accompany them. During World War II, the world wasn't constantly told things such as "The Dorset Regiment is being shipped to North Africa on December 1st". Why? Because the enemy can use such information!

[Kinetic]

"This report is subject to restrictions". Ignore this message and replace it with "the following report is a complete distortion of what is actually happening and every frame is contrived to make the total slaughter that is being comitted seem totally moral and heroic." for example, if a cameraman was allowed to show the thousands of innocent Iraqi's that have been executed in Falluja recently for no reason other that machoism and a racism that has been brainwashed into our troops, then the reality of the corrupt war that is being waged will be blatant - and that can never be allowed to happen.

[spainlads]

When the 'war' started the news reporters were saying this all the time. But after the US & UK took control Ragi Omar admiited on the BBC that the reports were NEVER subject to restrictions.

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