Mumbai and the media: BBC follows CNN
Another example of deadly blabbermouth journalism.
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They aren’t sabotaging their own loved ones, so why would they care? This is the world we live in.
Bastages.
Adds weight to the old expression “Lose lips sink ships”. Also confirms Rush’s term for the current news organizations as “The Drive-By Media”.
Rest in Peace Andreas Liveras. I’m sure you thought you were helping by telling what you saw. But the Betraying B****ds Company let you down.
When talking to a reporter, remember you are taking your life in your hands.
May as well talk to the terrorists.
Sad for this gentleman.
The BBC and CNN - where terrorists get their news apparently.
Well again, Foxnews is just as guilty for showing people in the windows of the hotel, exposing there location to the terrorist.
But it also shows how inept the Indian security was. They should have pushed all media out of the area, but they stuck around, even if it meant their own camermen would be shot at.
I am sorry, but if I am in a facility under terrorist attack and I am unarmed, phoning some news agency to give my on the scene account to the press is NOT on my list of priorities.
Hiding like a bunny is priority one, if I cannot E & E. Then expect me to be on the horn to the first person who can contact the authorities and tell them, “COME AND GET ME the **bleep** OUTTA HERE!!!”
This guy paid for his stupidity.
Amen.
Amen.
I can’t figure that out, either. The article specified that he called the BBC to give his eye-witness account. I don’t know about you, but I don’t happen to have western news agency numbers on speed dial. How did he call?
He’s a big shot. Probably knows people at the BBC.
Why would you ever contact the media, unless you have a very good way to use them for your own benefit? I’d certainly not put my life (or my privacy, like Joe the Plumber) in jeopardy to give them a “story”.
Well Mr. Liveras stuck his head up and got it shot. Second rule of a gun fight- do not be an obvious target. I wish Mr. Liveras had known better- we can expect no better from the bottom feeders of the BBC.
I carry everywhere-if my gun is not welcome neither am I.
Condolences Mr. D’Souza–even the best of police forces can not protect you–all they can do is respond. Terrorist, thieves, rapist and such seldom give us advanced warning.
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That Every Man Be Armed–You Too ladies
Patrick Henry quote - The great object is, that every man be armed. Every one who is able may have a gun.
I wholeheartedly concur. Everyone should at least be armed at home!
This is Corallary One to “Peace Through Superior Firepower.”
One also should remember one of Murphy’s Laws of Combat which states, “Try to look unimportant; the enemy might be low on ammo.”
His first mistake was calling a far-left libtard news association. What did he expect? I’m figuring he was a far lefty hisownself, as most Brits appear to be these days.
Make that his last mistake…
The only call he or anyone should have made was to the police.
News agencies are in the business of making money and all dead people are nothing but a headline to them, period.
BBC=Bagged Body Counters!
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!
Again…why was this man on the phone with a major media outlet? Did he have their number programmed into his phone? Also, is it possible that the terrorists were going to kill him regardless of who he was speaking to on his phone? He said that he had already been locked into a room with other captives. Therefore, the terrorists knew his location before he spoke to the BBC. If the terrorists locked them into a room, they obviously had plans to come back for them at some point. Blaming the media for this man’s death appears to be a major stretch.
Remember Grenada? I do.
BBC, ha! The KGB couldn’t have done a better job at eliminating a successful “capitalist”. Rotten ba$tards.
http://richardcochrane.hypocrisy.com/2008/11/19/should-reporters-have-to-known-what-they-are-talking-about/
I think it needs looking into especially after Alex Witt’s latest commentary.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/01/msnbc-anchor-surprised-to-find-terrorism-still-exists-post-obama/
Contact with the outside and people watching the Western media? The BBC probably called the al-Hot Line as soon as they disconnected the call with Liveras.
The men who do these acts to not worship the same God as me.
There are different beliefs and different religions. This act should prove to religious relativists that not all gods are the same.
By the way,
Does anyone think Obama would give these guys a trial and ask the ACLU to defend them.
“Theirs is not the same god”
He was moved to the basement by the terrorists, so they knew where the hostages were. How many of the hostages in the basement were killed along with Mr. Liveras?
I don’t blame the media, I don’t even blame Mr. Liveras, . . . I blame the terrorists.