'Joe the Plumber' says war reporting should be 'abolished'.Byline: ANI Jerusalem, Jan.14 (ANI): "Joe the Plumber", who is now in Israel as a foreign correspondent foreign correspondent n. A correspondent who sends news reports or commentary from a foreign country for broadcast or publication. Noun 1. , says reporting on wars should be completely abolished. "To be honest with you, I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed war . . . . I liked back in World War I and World War II, when you'd go to the theater and you'd see your troops on the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them," he said in an interview with the Associated Press. "Now everyone's got an opinion and wants to down soldiers-our American soldiers, our Israeli soldiers. I think media should be abolished from reporting," he added. Joe - whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher - is on location in Israel for the conservative Web site Pajamas Media Pajamas Media, briefly known as Open Source Media, is a startup company founded in 2004 by mystery writer, screenwriter and blogger Roger L. Simon, and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs "with the intention of... . For his first assignment, he was shown remnants of rockets and other war debris and in the video had difficulty coming up with questions to conduct an interview. "I have thousands of questions but I can't think of the right one," he said. Wurzelbacher gained fame during the presidential campaign when Republican White House contender Senator John McCain held him up as a symbol of the common man. (ANI) Copyright 2008 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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