September 24, 2004

Media should be allies in war on terror says Putin

Amen, and pass the ammunition!! AP:

President Vladimir Putin urged journalists Friday to use their work to advance the battle against terrorism, saying the media should not just be passive observers in the face of threats by militants.

"It is obvious that the struggle against terrorism cannot be an excuse to infringe upon the freedom and independence of the press," Putin told an international media conference organized by Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency.

"But you yourselves, as professionals, should develop a model of work that would allow media to become an effective instrument in the struggle against terror, which would exclude any, even involuntary, form of assistance to terrorists' goals."

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1 Hard for them to do since most of them have already signed up with the enemy.

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at September 24, 2004 02:57 PM (k3fvZ)

2 But he's absolutely right. Cindy

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 25, 2004 02:17 AM (D39Vm)

3 Glad to see we're all gradually accepting every one of the tenets of fascism.

Posted by: Professor Peter Von Nostrand at September 25, 2004 01:51 PM (NJzm6)

4 Glad to see that you don't mind the media spreading the kind of propaganda that reinforces the world-view of terrorists so that they can stomache putting a knife to the throat of a hostage and cut off their heads. America during WWII has overt-real-government-controlled-censorship. Unless you think America was 'fascist', or that only 'fascists' censor their presses in times of war. Putin only suggested the media ought to be on the side of the good guys in the war on terror.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford, owner of this blog at September 25, 2004 04:03 PM (JQjhA)

5 I don't think showing the videos has anything to do with the media. They are not playing them, we ae, and for good reason: for everyone to see what vile, monstrous, dastardly deeds these terrorists do for kicks. I don't know what fascism is and don't care but Putin is right. It pisses me off to no end when I see a journalist embedded with the terrorists showing the world what it's like to be on the inside, I'd like to slap them silly. If there was anything I could do about that, I would end that, I would. The terrorists are the bad guys and they should not be covering the bad guys but the good guys and showing what is happening to those on the good side or they should just leave the damn country. I'd fine every one of them plus if they were an employee of mine, I'd fire them on the spot. There is only one side in this war 0 and that's the GOOD SIDE. ~C

Posted by: firstbrokenangel at September 25, 2004 11:01 PM (D39Vm)

6 Hey all you Americans – You have more filth in your own country than the whole remainder of planet earth. Try cleaning up your own place before dictating to the rest. How many murders do you have in the USA every day. In most other countries it makes the headlines when someone is murdered as it’s not the norm. Not yours, it’s so common it doesn’t even get a mention. Think about the mass murderers you’ve had alone, they are way too numerous to mention. Your court rooms are clogged with the scum. No one deserves to have there head sliced off, but be real everyone what do you expect when you turn up in a country who now hates you so much, and why? Let me see could it be because you murdered their men, women & children, destroyed their land & homes? Your military has raped & tortured, you hold many of their people in prisons, guilty only by association. You are all outraged with these gruesome beheadings, as are the rest of us. But are you any better – what’s this Electric Chair thingy? That’s pretty Barbaric don’t you think? We all know there was no weapons of mass destruction. Oh but there was OIL, Oh the OIL.

Posted by: Graham Wells at September 26, 2004 04:51 PM (u/TP3)

7 Memo To Graham Wells: uh, that would be Saddam who raped, murdered,destroyed and gased his own people, not america. As far as the electric chair, I'd take that any day over a beheading. At least we give our criminals the right to a trial, including Saddam. by the way, which country do you live in? It must be a freikin utopia.

Posted by: Todd at September 28, 2004 03:49 AM (ZrT7t)

8 One more thing Mr. Wells, we all know there is oil but you don't drive a car, right?

Posted by: Todd at September 28, 2004 08:34 AM (ZrT7t)

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