The Associated Press 'insurgency'

The Associated Press 'insurgency'

Conservative bloggers suggested Monday that an Associated Press
photographer was complicit with militants who executed three Iraqi
election workers on Baghdad's dangerous Haifa Street on Sunday. They
accused the photographer of knowing in advance that the executions
were to take place; rather than warn the authorities, they insinuated,
the photojournalist went after the disturbing story and images to
shock readers and smear the Bush administration's war effort.
Wretchard [of the Belmont Club blog] compared the AP coverage with the
famous Vietnam-era photo taken by Eddie Adams, who captured the
execution in Saigon in 1968 of Vietcong Capt. Bay Lop by South
Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan. . . . This is hardly the first time
that pundits on the political right have sought to portray a left-wing
media insurgency bent on capturing grim images in U.S.-occupied Iraq
in order to undermine the Bush administration. Last April, the editors
of the New York Post blared accusations of the AP cutting a deal with
Fallujah's mutilators and helping to maximize the carnage of the four
American military contractors murdered there.

Source: Mark Follman, Salon
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/12/22/executions/index.html
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