Ace has a post about Bilal Hussein, the AP photographer whom Michelle Malkin suspects is a terrorist accomplice.
That Hussein was captured at the same time as insurgents doesn’t make him one of them, said Kathleen Carroll, AP’s executive editor. “Journalists have always had relationships with people that others might find unsavory,” she said. “We’re not in this to choose sides, we’re to report what’s going on from all sides.”
Sure, he’s been hanging around with unsavory people. Journalists.
Oh, yeah, he was arrested with a couple of al Queda members, including Hamid Hamad Motib, an alleged leader in Iraq.
“He has close relationships with persons known to be responsible for kidnappings, smuggling, improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and other attacks on coalition forces,” according to a May 7 e-mail from U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jack Gardner, who oversees all coalition detainees in Iraq.
“The information available establishes that he has relationships with insurgents and is afforded access to insurgent activities outside the normal scope afforded to journalists conducting legitimate activities,” Gardner wrote to AP International Editor John Daniszewski.
But no worries. He’s not going to choose sides. After all, he’s a journalist.
Hah. We all know that journalists aren’t biased.
/sarc
Yes, I feel all warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that the press seeks only to serve and protect us.
I saw a survey once that reported people’s trust in lawyers was significantly higher than in journalists. I wish I could remember when/where – it was very interesting.