Post Your Gulf War Media Gaffes Here

[seafuryfan]

21 Mar

Hours after the Marines have launched from Ocean to take the Faw Penninsua.....

BBC Newsdesk girlie to BBC reporter on Ocean:

"So what was the atmosphere like when the Marines returned?"

Reporter:

"Er......they're not coming back"


21 Mar

As footage from cockpit of Puma with marshaller visible doing 'land on' signal marshaller is shown.....

Bloke Newsdesk reporter:

".Oh..and there's someone surrendering......."

Oppo:

"Actually I think he's marshalling the helicopter"

[adrian mole]

21 Mar

Sky News - A female reporter standing near the Kuwait/Iraqi border:

"For a desert, there seems to be a surprising amount of sand..."

[Wycombe]

One I heard the other day (think it was on the Beeb):

"The MOAB Bomb is so big it has to be dropped from a Hurricane"

[pulse1]

Slightly related:

A week or so ago BBC reporter was attending the press day at a base in Eastern Europe where Iraqis were being trained to take over running Iraq after the war-

BBC reporter to American, "Why are you doing this in secret?"

[Ian Corrigible]

US correspondent reporting for one of the majors (ABC or CBS, I forget which) from Kuwait City on Wednesday evening:

"Kuwait is using sniffer dogs to warn of chemical, biological and nuclear attacks..."

(Hint: if the dog starts glowing green and/or disappears in the roaring inferno of a 600 mph firestorm, it's probably located a nuclear attack)

[Archimedes]

I'm not sure if this is a gaffe by the BBC (through poor use of English) or a gaffe by the person who said it. However, the BBC website reports:

"A leader of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, urges Iraqis to defend themselves by carrying out suicide attacks against the advancing American and British troops in their country."

Now forgive me for being dense, but is blowing yourself up really the best form of protecting yourself?

[RubiC Cube]

Buff Hoon in Parliament today

" The British Royal Marines...."

Are there any more Royal Marines??

[S76Heavy]

Any country with a monarchy and a Marine Corps..

[Archimedes]

Aren't the Dutch Marines 'Royal' as well?

[Vortex_Generator]

A reporter on Sky news today came out with the revelation:

"It seems to me as though a great deal of planning has gone into this operation".

How much do they pay these people?

[TAC2]

21March
seen on Sky News this morning - interviewing an Air Ship watching a guy with an SA80 wearing UK desert DPM and speaking in a definate English accent - which country do you think he is from?
HIs Airship - i have no idea

[Noah Zark.]

Idiotess anchor person on morning T.V. trying really hard to get more "nitty gritty" out of a U.K. Military Officer spokesman, who had given an account of the Marines demise in the helicopter crash " So is it possible to survive a crash like this?"
Obviously not, stupid bitch.

[Danny]

Sky News tonight. Shaky green videocam shot of reporter in Bahdad with minaret framed in background, talking in suitably high pitch to give sense of drama when we hear air raid siren going off. Reporter finishes sentence and then says "and thats an air raid siren!"

Also, earlier today on Sky or BBC (can't remember, they're all as pathetic as each other) anchor is chatting to some resident expert or another and dramtically breaks off the interview and says: "Sorry, we are breaking this off to go live aboard the USS (put in suitable name) where we have live pictires coming in!"

Cut to another shaky videophone shot of the wake of a ship and the horizon! Big wow!

[fobotcso]

Not exactly a "media gaffe" althoough is was broadcast over the media.

Several Iraqi officials, including those waving silver plated AK47s, said "All US and UK forces will not get out of Iraq alive."

A good example of what used to be described as "Whistling in the dark".

Having contributed that, I remain incredulous at what is going on . What will History say, I wonder?

[Didntdoit]

Great Put down

Apparantly, Sec Def was asked why they hadn't stuck to the Warplan at the start.

His reply was along the lines of, "I can't remember giving you guys the Warplan?"

All seriousness though, I find it quite shocking the the media has such a total disregard for how dangerous their info could be. One day...

[owc]

Radio 5 Live last night,

Reporter from Baghdad describing the bombing earlier that day, 'the attacks included cruise missiles, laser guided bombs' prat in studio then asks 'so what caused the damage'

[Man-on-the-fence]

Same Bitch as above

"So this aircraft has a bad safety record, when are they going to ground it then, it seems to be dangerous"

......errrr ITS WAR YOU SILLY COW

[SASless]

I loved the video sent out...with narration by an "embedded" newsy with the US 3rd Herd......whilst his group of Tanks were waiting to hit the fuel bowsers.....Video Cam focused on our hero stuck in a tank turret....Newsy says...and now my camera man will pan around the horizon and give you a view of what we can see.....as the cam pans leftwards towards the direction of march....Newsy says....and there is the leading unit at the fuelling point.....cam continues to left to show column of other armored vehicles....stopped in the track.....and a Squaddie....standing in the open....legs apart....both hands clasped about the Wife's Best Friend.....doing what Wellington suggested to the young officer who asked what sage advice the Field Marshal had for a young man starting out in the Army...."Piss when you can!" It was slow pan left....rapid scan right!

[Pontius Navigator]

1035 GMT this fine sunny morn. B52 launches from Fairford. BBC Idiotess says "So the bombing is going to take place during the day now?"

Incredulous reporter at the other end, "No actually it will take them 6 or 7 hours to get to Iraq and Iraq is 3 hours ahead of you."

"So it will be dark then?"

Silence

[Danny]

Classic from ignorant bint interviewr in CNN studio asking questions of their 'expert': "Are these the same B52's as used to drop the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki".

I knew some of them were ignorant but this one took the biscuit for total ignorance!