CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson blasted Fox News [story was reported by Fox correspondent Jennifer Griffin] on Monday for its report that Libyan authorities used him and other journalists as "human shields" in order to prevent an attack on Muammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli the night before.
While Griffin is sticking by her reporting, she acknowledged that Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan sent a security guard with a camera on the government-organized trip. "I did not know about that earlier today," she said. "I became aware of that this evening. That was my mistake and I apologize for that."
Fox had cameras on the scene of the story that their corespondent presented a story about. One has to wonder... if the most watched news source in the US had actual footage of reporters being used as human shields then why didn't they use it?
Reply 1 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
They have an agenda and they stick to it, regardless of reality.
And as you point out, if they had the footage they'd have shown it. Remember Peter Arnett of CNN broadcasting from Baghdad during Gulf War 1? Now that was news, and that was reporting.
Fox isn't a serious contender in any area of news, it's just a mouthpiece run by Roger Ailes for whatever he wants said.
Despite his Republican Congress origins, I'm quite impressed by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. He's matured into a pretty good broadcaster.
Rob
And as you point out, if they had the footage they'd have shown it. Remember Peter Arnett of CNN broadcasting from Baghdad during Gulf War 1? Now that was news, and that was reporting.
Fox isn't a serious contender in any area of news, it's just a mouthpiece run by Roger Ailes for whatever he wants said.
Despite his Republican Congress origins, I'm quite impressed by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. He's matured into a pretty good broadcaster.
Rob
Reply 2 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
Facts not their style? Sticking to am agenda? Look in a mirror.
Reply 3 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
I also remember the Operation Tailwind" story.
Reply 4 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
They brought the reporters to a place that might be targeted, no? What is "actual footage of reporters being used as human shields?"
She said she got the intelligence from British sources. Was that a lie? Any evidence she did not?
She said she got the intelligence from British sources. Was that a lie? Any evidence she did not?
Reply 5 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
One might assume that a "human shield" is innocent people being held at strategic locations in order to dissuade a military strike on that location.
"British fighter jets had seven missiles," Griffin told Fox News anchor Jon Scott Monday afternoon. "They were in fact going to be fired from tornado fighter planes onto that compound, but the mission had to be cut short because of the presence of CNN television crews and Reuters journalists on the ground who had been taken to the site."
From wagga-wakka (btw... love the handle) : What is "actual footage of reporters being used as human shields?"
"Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan sent a security guard with a camera on the government-organized trip." The very trip that Griffin says CNN and Reuters Crews were being used as human shields also had Fox cameramen too. It is a darn shame that Fox editors and producers failed to use the footage they had... to back up Ms Griffins report. Pretty glaring mistake from the worlds' leading news source. I'll be looking forward to Ms Griffin using that footage in future rebuttals of CNN's slanderous claims of hypocrisy.
"British fighter jets had seven missiles," Griffin told Fox News anchor Jon Scott Monday afternoon. "They were in fact going to be fired from tornado fighter planes onto that compound, but the mission had to be cut short because of the presence of CNN television crews and Reuters journalists on the ground who had been taken to the site."
From wagga-wakka (btw... love the handle) : What is "actual footage of reporters being used as human shields?"
"Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan sent a security guard with a camera on the government-organized trip." The very trip that Griffin says CNN and Reuters Crews were being used as human shields also had Fox cameramen too. It is a darn shame that Fox editors and producers failed to use the footage they had... to back up Ms Griffins report. Pretty glaring mistake from the worlds' leading news source. I'll be looking forward to Ms Griffin using that footage in future rebuttals of CNN's slanderous claims of hypocrisy.
Reply 6 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
I think that it would be best to look at the original story. Link:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/21/exclusive-libyans-use-journalists-human-shields/
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/21/exclusive-libyans-use-journalists-human-shields/
Reply 7 : Fox News tells different story from CNN
Good to see they had a chance to explain things better... than the 2 live broadcasts covering the story earlier in the day.
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