{"id":9184,"date":"2009-06-25T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2009-06-25T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:22:01","slug":"no-good-news-means-no-news-army-bars-stars-and-stripes-reporter-from-covering-1st-cav-unit-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9184","title":{"rendered":"No &#8220;good&#8221; news means no news | Army bars Stars and Stripes reporter from covering 1st Cav unit in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Army bars Stars and Stripes reporter from covering 1st Cav unit in Mosul<br \/>\nStars and Stripes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=63426\">Wednesday, June 24, 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asserting that Stars and Stripes \u201crefused to highlight\u201d good news in Iraq that the U.S. military wanted to emphasize, Army officials have barred a Stripes reporter from embedding with a unit of the 1st Cavalry Division that is attempting to secure the violent city of Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Stripes reporter Heath Druzin, who covered operations of the division\u2019s 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team in February and March, would not be permitted to rejoin the unit for another reporting tour because, among other things, he wrote in a March 8 story that many Iraqi residents of Mosul would like the American soldiers to leave and hand over security tasks to Iraqi forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.stripes.com\/blogs\/right-know\/column-mosul-unit-wrong-bar-stripes-reporter\">Why  Stripes won&#8217;t replace reporter barred by Army<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Star and Stripes editors gave in to the military and sent another reporter to Mosul in Heath Druzin&#8217;s  place, everything the new reporter wrote would be suspect, says Stripes ombud Mark Prendergast. &#8220;Moreover, an unintended consequence might be that the  substitute reporter, mindful of the pall of suspicion over him or her, might  prove even more nettlesome than Druzin, to dispel suspicion and preserve his or  her independence and professional reputation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army bars Stars and Stripes reporter from covering 1st Cav unit in Mosul Stars and Stripes, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Asserting that Stars and Stripes \u201crefused to highlight\u201d good news in Iraq that the U.S. military wanted to emphasize, Army &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9189,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}