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Originally posted by jaguar
But exactly how free the journos are to take shots, who knows.
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Ashleigh Banfield was doing her show from Iraq a few weeks before 9/11. They seemed to give her pretty open access, although some government official had to be with her and the crew any time a camera was on.
Most of the people she talked to were like, "We don't hate America, we hate the American government." And, "Saddam Hussein is a great leader...we are happy with him." Also, "We won the Persian Gulf war."
However, from what Banfield noted, they don't have access to any outside media (unless they tune their radios to the VOA in secret...that's my own personal guess).