Well, of course not EVERYbody has human rights. And, of course [use your head, man], some journalists are legitimate targets to be, well, annihilated. Everything crashed. There was no way out. There was smoke everywhere. It was terrible. People were screaming. It was like a nightmare. Another reported a huge detonation, and everything went completely dark. The scene, Erlanger reported, was an increasingly familiar one of smashed glass, broken walls, twisted timbers, scorched paint and emotional devastation. These last quotes, however -- as independent journalist David Peterson reminds us -- are not from January 2015. Rather, they are from a report by Erlanger on April 24 1999, which received far less attention. Erlanger was reporting on the NATO missile attack on Serbian state television headquarters that knocked Radio Television Serbia off the air, killing 16 journalists. NATO and American officials defended the attack, Erlanger reported, as an effort to undermine the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon told a briefing in Washington that Serb TV is as much a part of Milosevics murder machine as his military is, hence a legitimate target of attack. There were no demonstrations or cries of outrage, no chants of We are RTV, no inquiries into the roots of the attack in Christian culture and history. On the contrary, the attack on the press was lauded.
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