Well the DOD controls it now!
You no longer have drafted members in the military. The military controls what is said by their employee's! They can not talk to reporters honestly without losing their job.
Look how they are treating the wiki leaks private. Reporters just carry the water for the military brass.
We have a viginia crew of reporters. I agree with charles premis.
Originally Posted by WTF
WTF, a day late and a dollar short, as usual. Read posts at #143 and #159 and you’ll find you’re repeating what I already posted. Plus, here are two more American journalist from the Vietnam era. Again, these are a couple of Herr’s associates, and they also reported for foreign news agencies.
Sean Flynn [son of Errol Flynn] the journalist: Flynn arrived in South Vietnam in January 1966, as a free-lance photojournalist; first for the French magazine
Paris-Match, then for
Time-Life and finally for United Press International. His photos were soon published around the world. He soon made a name for himself as one of that group of high-risk photojournalists who would do anything to get the best pictures; even going into combat.
In March, 1966, Flynn was wounded in his knee while in the field. In mid-1966, he left Vietnam long enough to star in his last movie. He returned to Vietnam and made a parachute jump with the 1st. Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in December, 1966. In 1967, he went to Israel to cover the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. He returned to Vietnam in 1968, after the Tet offensive, with plans to make a documentary about the war. In the spring of 1970, he went to Cambodia, when news of North Vietnamese advances into that country broke.
Disappearance: On April 6, 1970, after leaving Phnom Penh on rented Honda motorbikes to find the front lines of fighting in Cambodia, Flynn and Dana Stone (who was also an American and who was on assignment for
Time magazine and CBS News respectively) were captured by Vietnamese Communist forces at a roadblock on Highway One. Investigations by fellow photojournalist Tim Page, reported in the UK
Sunday Times on 24 March 1991, indicate that Stone and Flynn were taken first to the village of Sangke Kaong, and then to other villages before being handed over to the Khmer Rouge. Citing various government sources, the consensus is that Flynn and Stone were killed by Khmer Rouge in June 1971. Page and a TV documentary maker tracked down an empty grave in a village known as Bei Met that had allegedly been the final resting place of two foreigners. Forensic examination of the few remains left in the grave suggested they belonged to a tall man and a short man – consistent with the appearance of Flynn and Stone respectively – and that both had died violently. In 2003, the Pentagon's Central Identification Lab in Hawaii confirmed by DNA testing that the remains found by Tim Page were actually of Clyde McKay, a boat hijacker and Larry Humphrey, an army deserter. Flynn and Stone were never heard from again and their remains have never been found.
Flynn's mother, Lili Damita, spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, with no success. In 1984 she had him declared legally dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Flynn
Originally Posted by SR Only
