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February 1, 2007
Outrage Of The War! New York Times Posts Video and Pictures of Dying US Soldier!!
Topics: National NewsI failed to get this story up yesterday, and I'm mad at myself for failing to do so. The New York Times has proven itself over and over again to be the most anti-American, anti-military, anti-administration print media in the nation, and has probably single handedly done more to compromise the safety and security of our citizens than most spy agencies of our enemies. However, this time the NYT has gone far beyond the pale and reached to the deepest depths of depravity, inhumanity, and compassion, and violated standard ethical constraint when it broadcast the video of an American Marine being shot, and reported his death without officially contacting his family. (Gateway Pundit posts that as of Thursday 2-1-07, 6:00 AM CST, The New York Times still has the video of the last few moments of Staff Sgt. Hector Leija's life posted on their website even after the family asked the Times to take the video down.).
Just reading the NYT news story sickened me that the story was even printed; I refuse to watch the video.
Yesterday, The Houston Chronicle (via Gateway Pundit) reported the horrible news of the outraged family who just heard that The New York Times has photos and video of their dying soldier son posted on their website:
WASHINGTON -- A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York Times have triggered anger from his relatives and Army colleagues and revived a long-standing debate about which images of war are proper to show.With a son of my own in Iraq, I can't imagine having my heart ripped out by out of the blue seeing a New York Times video showing the details of the death of my son, or even having to know that the MSM had put the video on the Internet. The mere thought chills me.The journalists involved, Times reporter Damien Cave and Getty Images photographer Robert Nickelsberg, working for the Times, had their status as so-called embedded journalists suspended Tuesday by the Army corps in Baghdad, military officials said, because they violated a signed agreement not to publish photos or video of any wounded soldiers without official consent.
New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said Tuesday night that the newspaper initially did not contact the family of Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija about the images because of a specific request from the Army to avoid such a direct contact.
"The Times is extremely sensitive to the loss suffered by families when loved ones are killed in Iraq," Chira said. "We have tried to write about the inevitable loss with extreme compassion." (Edit - utter BS)
She said that after the newspaper account, with a photograph of the soldier, was published Monday, a Times reporter in Baghdad made indirect efforts to tell the family of the video release later that day. The video was still available for viewing on the Times' Web site Tuesday night, (It is still available, Wednesday 4:40 PM CST) when the newspaper notified clients of its photo service that the photograph at issue was no longer available and should be eliminated from any archives.
...Chief Warrant Officer 4 Robert Lobeck, serving as the Army's casualty assistance officer with Leija's family in Texas, said seeing the images of Leija on the Internet was very upsetting to the relatives.
"Oh God, they shouldn't have published a picture like that," Leija's cousin Tina Guerrero, who had not seen the images but was aghast about them anyway, told the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday in Raymondville. She said the images would be especially hurtful to the soldier's parents, Domingo and Manuela Leija, who have remained in the family's home on the edge of town. ''It's going to devastate them," Guerrero said. ''They're having enough pain dealing with the death of their son."
This was released last Friday in The Brownsville Herald:
Hector Leija, a 1997 graduate of Raymondville High School and an Army staff sergeant, was killed in Iraq over the weekend.
The 27-year-old was serving his second tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Defense Department has not yet released details on his death.
What the parents of that Marine had to endure is incredibly unimaginable, and as Dan suggests, I hope to God they sue the hell out of the New York Times, and win. I believe that I would do the same thing and then burn the damned money just before the authorities locked me up for beating the hell out of the decision makers at the NYT.
Dan Riehl frames the story and the overall MSM war coverage in a most appropriate perspective, saying that "It's official, the press has gone to war":
Within the past two days, the New York Times violated a standard ethical constraint when it broadcast video of an American Marine being shot, also reporting his death without officially contacting his family. They are reported to have suffered greatly in the process of viewing it. If there's any justice, they will sue the Times for the little bit that it's still worth.For more commentary, be sure to read all of Gateway Pundit's post on the story.A CBS journalist / activist has gone the extra mile in attempting to draw attention to a gruesome al-Qaeda video she incorporated into a news report without attribution.
Still, back again to the New York Times - a victory over hundreds of insurgents wasn't reported as a victory at all, simply an episode that raised questions, as it wasn't accomplished easily enough - that according to the Times.
As silly as Jane Fonda taking back her apology, and now apparently back in Vietnam, Turner Broadcasting showed how seriously they take the war on terror, using that very thing for a publicity stunt that closed down a major city.
And still the AP refuses to accept responsibility for its earlier unethical and misleading reporting from Iraq.
Today's disgusting anti-military screed from the WaPo's Arkin should come as little surprise.
Perhaps emboldened by so many Democrats and some Republicans now betraying their very own earlier votes as they muster political opposition to victory in Iraq, clearly the MSM has decided to take the mask off of their own opposition to the Iraq War.
Posted by Richard at February 1, 2007 8:20 AM
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