2006-07-19 02:09:09 · 9 answers · asked by interested 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
operational secuirty is something and press and media coverage is another.. hazobala can not be found though we know the news about what they are doing ...
2006-07-19 02:20:45 · update #1
it is not fair that we do not have other point of views , I mean CNN and BBC is not enough. my source is other english and french channels that were imprisoned or deported for trying to cover news in the north .. we need to know more about israel's situation in the north , have they been bombarded or not ???
2006-07-19 02:46:31 · update #2
First you have to remember that Israel has no obligations to help reporters.
Second, every military operation will try to limit what the enemy can find out. And keeping stuff out of the press is one of the basic methods of doing this.
2006-07-19 02:37:08 · answer #1 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you give your source? I haven't come across these reports so I can't say anything useful about this specific case and I haven't been able to google or yahoo anything up. BUT it is standard practice for warring governments to control news coverage, and for all of the usual reasons. Is there any reason to think that this is worse than normal?
I just finished reading Chris Ayres' _War Reporting for Cowards_, about his time imbedded with a marine unit during the invasion of Iraq. Politically, it's as unbiased as it's possible to get. One of his comments was that being imbedded essentially turned the journalists into soldiers. So even when we think we have it up close, it's still far from the whole picture.
2006-07-19 02:38:08 · answer #2 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called operational security. The less information you put out about your movements and plans, the less the enemy will know about it. The US used a twisted version of this for the first Gulf War. The US military had the press focused on the east, and that's all the enemy saw being broadcast. Therefore, they thought that's the direction we were coming from. However, they flanked the Iraq's to the west.
2006-07-19 02:16:39 · answer #3 · answered by Scott M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason all the countries truly run the media, to only allow certain things out, especially in war time.....
2006-07-19 02:14:21 · answer #4 · answered by lost&confused 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is not good for Israel that the world sees what they are really doing
2006-07-20 12:26:57 · answer #5 · answered by gabypalma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because they don't want to make Israelis in North scared more .
2006-07-19 02:30:09 · answer #6 · answered by asp 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
would you show your hand to a gun fighter in a poker game? who would kill you if you won? Israel is not showing it's hand.
2006-07-22 02:33:32 · answer #7 · answered by njforth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you allow reporters if you are committing atrocities?
2006-07-20 07:17:08 · answer #8 · answered by D greendesk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it is too dangerous.
2006-07-19 02:12:45 · answer #9 · answered by Z Town Mom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋