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To: LindyBill who wrote (39018)4/11/2004 6:45:55 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793943
 
So, what should he have reported?

Here's what he said: "More than 280 Iraqis have been killed and 400 wounded this week in the U.S. Marines' siege of insurgents in this city west of Baghdad, the director of Fallujah's hospital said Thursday."

What should he have said. He doesn't know if those numbers are good or not. He doesn't know what the breakdown of them is in terms of innocents and combatants. What should he have said?

He's getting paid to file stories. He couldn't not file anything.

He could have added a caveat that Iraqi hospitals' numbers are traditionally unreliable, but we all know that. We're not stupid

He could have added that those numbers were unverified, although it's obvious that they aren't verifiable. That would give some distance, I suppose, without being too disrespectful. Is that what you want? If not, what do you want?
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