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Originally Posted by Snipey
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Originally Posted by redcoat2
Yon was originally well regarded by the Army hierarchy, but it is rumoured that he has fallen out of favour with some people. He has claimed that the West is “losing” in A-stan when as far as the Army is concerned we are “making progress.”
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If that's true, and it probably is, that's ridiculous. I haven't seen anything, except high quality from Yon. |
He was personally selected for British embeds in Iraq and A-stan because of the high quality of his work.
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Originally Posted by Snipey
Nowhere in his photo captions, or reports, does he say "we're losing in A-Stan".
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First sentence of this
report.
The report was picked up by sections of the UK press with an axe to grind with the Government. They emphasised the ‘losing’ part without mentioning the ‘we can’t afford to lose part.’ He was misrepresented basically – but you can expect that from some of the media.
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Originally Posted by Snipey
If he expresses his personal view, then that's his own damn personal view. As long as you do quality work, your personal views shouldn't get you fired.
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A lot of journos did quality work during the Vietnam War. Unfortunately it was some of this media reporting that helped to lose it.
I’m not so sure he was ‘fired’ as such. He was given a three week embed which was extended to five weeks. Most embeds only get two weeks max. I suspect that his time was up. The Army isn’t run for his convenience. The Media Ops Officer responsible for A-Stan says that his embed wasn’t ‘cancelled’ at all. He has also said that he is welcome back another time.