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May 3, 2003, 08:18 AM
CNN TAKES HEAT FOR PACKING HEAT
Post Wire Services
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May 3, 2003 -- BRUSSELS, Belgium - CNN took some flak from fellow journalists yesterday for having armed security guards protect a correspondent heading into Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit last month.
The controversy erupted when CNN International's President Chris Cramer - speaking at the launch of an organization to promote journalists' safety - said the media sometimes needed armed protection.
Cramer said the convoy that took correspondent Brent Sadler into Tikrit on April 13 had returned fire after being shot at by a chasing car.
Other speakers - from Reuters, the BBC and Osama bin Laden's favorite news channel, al-Jazeera - claimed their journalists would never travel with an armed convoy.
Post Wire Services
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May 3, 2003 -- BRUSSELS, Belgium - CNN took some flak from fellow journalists yesterday for having armed security guards protect a correspondent heading into Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit last month.
The controversy erupted when CNN International's President Chris Cramer - speaking at the launch of an organization to promote journalists' safety - said the media sometimes needed armed protection.
Cramer said the convoy that took correspondent Brent Sadler into Tikrit on April 13 had returned fire after being shot at by a chasing car.
Other speakers - from Reuters, the BBC and Osama bin Laden's favorite news channel, al-Jazeera - claimed their journalists would never travel with an armed convoy.