I'm helping to put together a new Code of Conduct and Ethics policy where I work and I got distracted by this article that was linked to the site where I'm researching other similar policies. Allow me to just preview a little bit of the article below:
Consider the events of April 8, 2003. Early that morning, Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayyoub was reporting from the network's Baghdad bureau. He was providing an eyewitness account of a fierce battle between US and Iraqi forces along the banks of the Tigris. As he stood on the roof of the building, a US warplane swooped in and fired a rocket at Al Jazeera's office. Ayyoub was killed instantly. US Central Command released a statement claiming, "Coalition forces came under significant enemy fire from the building where the Al-Jazeera journalists were working." No evidence was ever produced to bolster this claim. Al Jazeera, which gave the US military its coordinates weeks before the invasion began, says it received assurances a day before Ayyoub's death that the network would not be attacked.
Just when I think things can't get more unbelievable, they do.
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Bucky,
Seen Control Room? It's a must for young journo like yourself.
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