'AP is reporting'. (Scoop).(Ron Fournier breaks story of rescued prisoner of war, Jessica Lynch)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 2003

AP got a big beat when White House correspondent Ron Fournier broke the news of the rescue of injured POW Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital last week. AP was cited by CNN and others in the half-hour between Fournier's report and CENTCOM's release of the statement confirming the daring recovery.

That followed AP's earlier scoop on the first suicide-bombing deaths of U.S. or British forces in the Iraq war. to Kuwait from Iraq, where he had been traveling with the 101st Airborne division. It is unclear whether he would have been required to leave, but it was understood that military leaders wished him gone. Rivera, who was an unofficial embed, was criticized after drawing a few too many lines in the sand--a map apparently divulging too much information...

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