NBC didn't share footage for 2 days

From the Chicago Tribune, by John Cook:

"The last time a U.S. news network got hold of potentially explosive images—in April, when CBS News obtained the photographs that sparked the Abu Ghraib prison scandal—U.S. military commanders asked it to hold off on the story because the situation in Fallujah was too tense. CBS complied, waiting for two weeks before airing the photos on "60 Minutes II."

This time, with Fallujah's insurgency largely routed by U.S. forces, it was NBC News with shocking images.

NBC, aware of how potentially damaging the footage of a wounded and possibly unarmed Iraqi being shot by a U.S. Marine could be while troops were still in battle, decided on its own to hold off on airing them for two days.

"We felt we had to do our due diligence," NBC News spokeswoman Allison Gollust said, explaining that the network spent much of Saturday, Sunday and Monday thoroughly reviewing and reporting the circumstances of the shooting. "To be responsible journalists, we had to do our jobs to put it in context."

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[willie]

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