--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29750.html
Airstrike! The Pentagon simplifies media relations
By John Lettice
Posted: 13/03/2003 at 17:10 GMT
Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon
proposes to take radical
new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised'
journalists will be shot
at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1
last Sunday veteran war
reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a
senior Pentagon official
that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite
phones, that are detected
by US aircraft are likely to be fired on.
It is possible, just possible, that this is the
dumbest article in journalistic history. If you're on
a battlefield and radiating an energy signature,
there's a good chance that you'll look like a
combatant. The United States uses antiradiation
missiles. If you're sitting out in the desert
radiating away, and you haven't informed the military
where you are and who you are so that they can protect
you, you are, almost certainly, going to get shot at.
No kidding. Does this shock anyone? If you're on a
battlefield, and you look like an enemy (someone
radiating but who is not deconflicted by American
systems is going to look like an enemy) you are going
to get shot at. This is why they call it a
battlefield. The Pentagon is saying, Hey boys and
girls, this is for-real. People get killed in a war.
So take precautions. And this is spun as the
Pentagon will shoot journalists? I guess that tells
you what you need to know about the Register...
Gautam
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