CNn is reporting that Fox News Channel executives and the Pentagon reached a deal Monday in which Geraldo Rivera, who raised the military's ire when he reported operational details, will leave Iraq voluntarily rather than be expelled from the country.
U.S. military officials told CNN on Monday morning that Rivera violated the cardinal rule of war reporting by giving away crucial details of military plans during a Fox News Channel broadcast from Iraq, where the reporter was temporarily assigned to the Army's 101st Airborne Division.
In the live broadcast, Rivera told his photographer to aim the camera at the sand in front of him. Rivera then outlined a map of Iraq, and showed the relative location of Baghdad and his location with the 101st Airborne. He then showed where the 101st would be going next.
"He gave away the big-picture stuff," a senior military official told CNN. "He went down in the sand and drew where the forces are going."
A Pentagon official told CNN that members of the 101st Airborne would escort Rivera to the Kuwaiti border. But Rivera appeared in another live report from Iraq hours after the official announced his expulsion, and said he knew nothing of it.
"In fact, I'm further in Iraq than I've ever been," Rivera said. "It sounds like some rats from my former network, NBC, are trying to stab me in the back [... ] MSNBC is so pathetic a cable news network that they have to do anything they can to attract attention [ ... ] You can rest assured that whatever they're saying is a pack of lies."
Nevertheless, Geraldo is packing his bags. Guess the search for the secret vault of Saddam Hussein will have to wait for another day.
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While there's little doubt in my mind that this is more B.S. on the part of both the US military and Geraldo, I think it must be filtered through the lens of Geraldo-deconstruction and military-industrial spin.
1) The guy is a relentless self-promoter, often achieving new heights of absurdity in this endeavor. Everything he does or says is tainted with his loopy self-aggrandisement. Let us not forget the "staged" reportage from Afghanistan: "I'm behind enemy lines - braving death and mayhem - to give you this shallow and outdated blather."
2) It takes only a moment of reflection for incredulity to set in. Why would Anyone, much less the US Central Command (CENTCOM, a subdivision of C.H.U.M.P.), tell Geraldo Anything of a sensitive and confidential nature?? They may as well have bought billboard space surrounding Baghdad. So if the account is true, we have to add this to the long list of US military f__k-ups/cover-ups already seen in this war. Is this the best they can do when "our freedom" (toast) is at stake?
3) Who decided to make bad theater of this incident? Geraldo himself? The White House? CENTCOM? MSNBC? Or are all of them in a circle-jerk of complicity?
4) This is an appalliing diss on the recently-decapitated Peter Arnett. He loses his job for incisive and relevant reportage, while the "man with one name", whose accuracy, honesty, journalistic integrity and moustache are ever in question, gets the limelight for what appears to be a staged event. There ain't no justice.
5) Geraldo's accuracy, honesty, journalistic integrity and moustache are ever in question.
6) Did I forget to say, "Geraldo's accuracy, honesty, journalistic integrity and moustache are ever in question?"
It would be interesting to know the truth behind these follies.
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