proof-of-us-media-lies

You know what you know about this suggested Fox News reporting that you a rotors cruise, some other journalists were effectively used by Kadafi as a human shield to prevent allied fighter planes from coming in and attacking a certain position, explain what you know about this. Well, this allegation is outrageous and it's absolutely hypocritical. You know when you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from a dictatorship here. You don't expect it from the other journalists. Why do I say that? Because Fox News has said that they didn't send somebody on this trip last night because they said it was a quote unquote propaganda trip. They sent a member of their team. He was not editorial. He was not technical, not normally a cameraman. He was given a camera by the team and told to come out and come on the bus with the 40 other journalists who were there who were free to get on the bus, free to get off the bus when they wanted. Told us when he was on the bus that even he, this member of their Fox team was surprised that they're correspondent and the normal cameraman weren't coming out. He was being sent. This isn't his normal job that he was being sent. So that's why I say what Fox is saying is outrageous and hypocritical. And the idea that we were some kind of human shields is not. I mean if they had actually been there, Steve Harig and the Correspondent here is somebody I've known for many years. I see him more times at breakfast than I see him out on trips with government officials here. Other correspondence here who go out regularly say the same things. NBC CBS, all the other news teams here go out, not on all the government trips. We didn't go out on another one yesterday. But we very, very rarely see the Fox news team out on the trip. So for them to say and call this, to say they didn't go and for them to call this and say this with government propaganda to hold us there as human shields. When they didn't even leave the hotel, the Correspondent didn't leave the hotel and go and see for himself is ridiculous. We were taken there, we went in through the security, we filmed the building, we were given 15, 20 minutes to do that. Five minutes a good happens, 10. And then we were taken out. And that was literally physically pushed back on the bus when we left. That's how quickly the government officials wanted to get us out. If I sound angry, it is because I am. As I say, I expect lies from the government here. I don't expect it from other journalists and it's frankly incredibly disappointing to me. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well,