Press access to satellite images is a casualty in this war: the Department of Defense owns and controls these pictures. (Coverage of Terrorism).
Nieman Reports, December, 2001 by Simpson, Christopher
Not too many years ago, I invited the chief intelligence and national security correspondent from one of America's most prominent newspapers to a conference on news media use of remote sensing tools to cover wars and similar crises. He gruffly replied that it was all baloney (though he used a different word for it) and declined to attend. I was curious and asked him why.
"Remote sensing," he said, "like using mind waves to read Kremlin mail," is complete crud. (He used a different term there, as well.)
Today that correspondent tells quite a different story. He encourages his paper to use remote sensing tools such as images gathered by civilian spy satellites, especially for coverage of the World Trade Center disaster and the subsequent war in...
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