Lefty Media Bias

Now they're distorting the accidental death of a reporter who got himself in a firefight. Here's the excerpt from Iraq Now:

Here's a news flash for you guys: Mazen Dana was killed when he went downrange during a firefight, turned around, hefted something on his shoulder, and foolishly aimed it in the direction of a tank’s gunnery optics.

For The Guardian to use the construction "shot dead by US troops for filming outside an Iraqi prison," implicitly alleging that the shooting was, in effect, calculated murder, is quite simply beyond the pale of responsible journalism.

Poorly written copy? Or an attempt to color and mislead the reader? You decide. Here's the original article in the Guardian.

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