Forget what I said about American reporters rarely training the cameras on themselves. Fox News went to Gori, Georgia (still occupied by Russian troops, by the way) and got an unconventional welcome: gunfire!
In a scene straight out of The Blair Witch Project, Fox reporter Steve Harrigan and his colleague run to safety, panting and raging as they go (“they’re obviously irregular, undisciplined, angry and humiliated!”). Georgian fighters, it seems, are not fans of Rupert’s network. That, or they don’t like it when the safari-jacketed Steve Harrigans of the world show up to film them getting overrun by the enemy and not taking orders from their own commanders. Oh, and who pointed a gun at Harrigan? Some “fat guy.” And scene.
LOL! That is too funny! I cant wait to read your comical take on the next reporter whose entrails and liver they are scraping out of a HMMWV in Iraq! Or perhaps some witty snark filled post when they find the next decapitated and mutilated corpse of an AP or CNN stringer in Iraq. That’s will be a freakin hoot!
Posted by TDC on Thu 14 Aug 2008 at 05:56 PM
TDC- I think the point might be: You want to wait until, at least, the "Mission Accomplished" speech is given before you go traipsing around a war zone. And also, if you don't it isn't necessarily the combatants in a live war zone who are doing it wrong.
Posted by B8ovin on Thu 14 Aug 2008 at 06:05 PM