Comments on: Stringers and collaborators: Hamas and elsewhere

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:20:42 +0000

they were not this extreme in iraq and afghanistan, well except for bobby ghos and yousafsai, who always an in with the latest savage celebrity

https://www.frontpagemag.com/ap-was-warned-in-2018-about-its-hamas-journalist/

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:08:44 +0000

When I read of this I also thought of that old, Mike Wallace interview.
What an awful philosophy! I hope, if Mr. Wallace actually found himself in such a situation, he would act differently. Sometimes we hold extreme beliefs at a philosophical level that don’t dictate how we act in the real world.

Imagine a photographer at a house fire. A mother sees him from a window and drops her baby towards him. The photographer snaps a photo of the baby hitting the ground, or the photographer drops his camera and catches the baby? I think 99.99% of us drop the camera.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 08:57:39 +0000

The NYP demonstrating why it is currently the nation’s “paper of record” (to be fair, the NYT has been in the toilet for a long time now, and the WaPo is a joke; only the Babylon Bee is giving the NYP a run for its money…):

“What’s really at the root of anti-Jewish hate on college campuses”—
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/whats-really-at-the-root-of-anti-jewish-hate-on-college-campuses/

“The week in whoppers: Barack Obama justifies terror, the NYT slurs US, Israel and more”—
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/the-week-in-whoppers-barack-obama-justifies-terror-the-nyt-slurs-us-israel-and-more/
“Antisemitic hate crimes soar, exposing lunacy of Biden team’s lectures on Islamophobia”—
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/opinion/antisemitic-hate-crimes-soar-exposing-lunacy-of-biden-teams-lectures-on-islamophobia/

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:41:38 +0000

Talk about ingratitude…
“Hundreds of anti-Israel protestors break into New York Times building;
“Protestors calling for destruction of Israel, accusing Biden and the Times of supporting “genocide,” occupy NYT lobby.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380060

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:05:01 +0000

They rarely got off their a**es to cover anything, preferring the comfort and safety of that bar in Jerusalem.
They relied VERY HEAVILY on local stringers,

–Someone Else

Hunter S. Thompson, the gonzo 60s/70s journalist, is an understandably tough sell for conservatives.

But he never portrayed his fellow journalists as much beyond hacks hanging out in comfortable bars and passing on whatever their stringers reported as Final Wisdom.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:51:48 +0000

Time Magazine, with the help of a Baathist stringer, faked up the Haditha massacre. The Marines, to their shame, treated the accused horribly for some time. Not heard there was an apology from Time or from the USMC to their guys.

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:47:52 +0000

I have talked about this for forty years! When I spent my junior year on Israel, I met a ton of foreign journalists. I found a great bar in Jerusalem near an office building that housed many, many news agencies’ offices. From hanging out there, I learned that:
Few of the “journalists” knew any Hebrew and almost none knew Arabic.
They rarely got off their a**es to cover anything, preferring the comfort and safety of that bar in Jerusalem.
They relied VERY HEAVILY on local stringers, almost all of whom were Arab, and most of whom were also on the payroll of the PLO (or one of its affiliates. Now, they might also be on the payroll of Hamas or Hezbollah, or the PA)

For years, people just kind of nodded in response to me saying this, “Uh huh, sure, r-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght…” It was as of people didn’t believe me, or thought it just didn’t matter.

Truth is out there now.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:31:26 +0000

a small subset of this, terry anderson’s unhinged daughter, salome, wrote a memoir where she seemed to trust her father’s hezbollah captures, to Mossad, because reasons,

By: om

om — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:27:50 +0000

Ernie Pyle vs Wallace and Jennings. How far they have fallen. Not fit to carry his canteen.

By: Turtler

Turtler — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:18:33 +0000

@Geoffrey Britain

Exactly. It would be hard to get stick (one downside of the lacks of Declarations of War) but it’d be good. And I’ve become convinced people like Jennings and Wallace need to have more “tragic accidents” happen to them. Especially in warzones where the lines are blurred.