The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman & David Goodman

Author:Amy Goodman & David Goodman [Goodman, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4013-9956-6
Publisher: HarperCollins Hyperion
Published: 2004-12-26T06:00:00+00:00

Point-and-Shoot Journalism: “I Went Over to the Dark Side”

WITH SOME EMBEDDED reporters, the line between journalist and soldier vanished as soon as the troops started moving toward Baghdad. The most startling case in point was Jules Crittenden, a reporter for the Boston Herald embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division. Crittenden posted a diary on Poynter Online, a journalism website, where he described what happened as “his” division entered Baghdad:14

It was here I went over to the dark side. I spotted the silhouettes of several Iraqi soldiers looking at us from the shadows twenty feet to our left. I shouted, “There’s three of the f——right there.”

“Where are the f——?” Howison said, spinning around in his hatch.

“The f——are right there,” I said, pointing.

“There?” he said, opening up with the 50. I saw one man’s body splatter as the large-caliber bullets ripped it up. The man behind him appeared to be rising, and was cut down by repeated bursts.

“There’s another f——over there,” I told Howison. The two soldiers in the crew hatch with me started firing their rifles, but I think Howison was the one who got him, firing through the metal plate the soldier was hiding behind.

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