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Drooling on the Pillow

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Giuliana Sgrena 

Via Mick Hartley:
Dutch blogger Zacht Ei translates part of an article from
Nederlands Dagblad by veteran war reporter Harald Doornbos:

'Be careful not to get kidnapped,' I told the female Italian
journalist sitting next to me in the small plane that was headed
for Baghdad. 'Oh no,' she said. 'That won't happen. We are siding
with the oppressed Iraqi people. No Iraqi would kidnap us.'

It doesn't sound very nice to be critical of a fellow reporter. But
Sgrena's attitude is a disgrace for journalism. Or didn't she tell me
back in the plane that 'common journalists such as yourself' simply
do not support the Iraqi people? 'The Americans are the biggest
enemies of mankind,' the three women behind me had told me,
for Sgrena travelled to Iraq with two Italian colleagues who hated
the Americans as well.
Ei concludes:

With her bias Sgrena did not only jeopardize herself, but due to
her behavior a security officer is now dead, and the Italian
government (prime minister Berlusconi included) has had to spend
millions of euros to save her life. It is to be hoped that Sgrena will
decide to have a career change. Propagandist or MP perhaps.
But she should give up journalism immediately.

It's hard to imagine a better outcome for Sgrena. Millions to buy munitions for her pet terrorists, a dead security officer to attract the maximum press exposure, minor wounds to justify her 'heroine' status and a black eye for American liberators. She could not have scripted it better.
Posted by: Sluggo / 2:06 PM
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