The court heard the news team was travelling independently of coalition forces to "interview civilians about their feelings in the first few days of the conflict" on 22 March 2003.
These men were not risking life and limb to give us factual reports about troop movements, levels of resistance, major engagements, new developments in combat techniques or equipment, enemy strengths and weaknesses or those kind of boring, mundane, 20th Century things. No no. They were there to interview civilians about their feelings. And a good job too. I'm sure they would have been rewarded with many useful quotes. I mean, nobody has ever asked people caught in the middle of a war if they are happy or sad before. What if people were actually ecstatic about being bombed, strafed, sniped and mortared? How would we ever find out, if it weren't for staunch newsmen like the guys from ITN?
I can't work up ANY sympathy for the bunny media, I'm sorry.
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