Couple Claims CNN Endangered Their Lives During Mumbai Attacks

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UPDATE at end of post: CNN responds.

A British couple caught in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, last week claimed Sunday that CNN endangered their lives by broadcasting their whereabouts.

According to the South Wales couple, the terrorists were monitoring CNN in order to locate westerners in the hotels under attack.

As reported by Wales Online (h/t TVNewser):

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Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.

Mrs Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. [...]

From her home in Penarth yesterday, Mrs Shaw said: “We have been asked by the British terror police not to talk to the press.

“But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were.

“The terrorists were watching CNN and they came down from where they were in a lift after hearing about us on television. For that reason I would appeal to the media to be very careful about what they broadcast.

“When we left Mumbai there were still around 100 people trapped there.”

She added: “People talk to one another on mobile phones and that gets broadcast and the terrorists knew from that.”

CNN says it hasn't heard any complaints concerning its behavior in Mumbai, and that given the number of its own employees in the area it would have done everything within its power to not compromise anyone's safety.

*****Update: I received the following e-mail message this morning:

Hi Noel –

CNN wanted to respond to the post: Couple Claims CNN Endangered Their Lives During Mumbai Attacks.  Below is our statement, attributed to a CNN spokesperson:

“This story is not true.  CNN has been told by Lynne Shaw that the accusations reported to have been made by her in the UK Press Association story are not accurate. She has no issue with CNN. The alleged broadcast never happened and CNN at no time compromised her or the safety of her husband as reported.”

It has also been updated on TV Newser.

Thank you,

Bridget Leininger

CNN Public Relations

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of course! why let anyone's safety....

...get in the way of broadcasting the news!

"CNN says it hasn't heard any complaints concerning its behavior in Mumbai."

hey, that selective hearing thing really worked for them all through the presidential campaign, so why change tactics now?

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke

Would`nt surprise me. CNN

Would`nt surprise me. CNN would never let someones safety get in the way of a story.

Of course not! Remember the

Of course not! Remember the cozy affair they had with Saddam Hussein? Just let people suffer unreported, and they could keep their Baghdad bureau office open. 

This isn't surprising from the Conscienceless News Network. To them, there is no principle worth losing a good story over.

That should be inscribed above their door.

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

CNN... Most Trusted Name in

CNN... Most Trusted Name in News....

Yeah for the enemy...from sea to shining sea.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Can't hear the complainers

Can't hear the complainers if they're dead 'eh CNN?

whoever made the asinine decision

To broadcast that information should be prosecuted for attempted murder.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

you are right, life!

where's the "absence of malice"?  one can only pray that in india there are legal provisions to deal with those who interfered with the attempts by indian commandos to save lives.  

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke

I agree, but...

here's a story from a news photog who was there.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article14086308.ece

Too bad India's pride in their police resulted in so many lives.

what an incredible story!

thanks for the link, wilbur.  it certainly appears that the mumbai police force is full of cowards.  pitiful!

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke

Cowards indeed

If a mere cameraman can get a photo of these yahoos, then why can't ONE so called 'police' get a shot off?  Was it becausae of political correctness?

This question has plagued many law abiding citizens who cannot, because of liberal laws, own, carry or fire a weapon in self sefense or the defense of others.

I hate to say this, but how

I hate to say this, but how often do our own police do the same thing?

At Columbine, they stayed out of the school until everything quieted down.  Ditto at Virginia Tech, if I'm not mistaken.

It's as if they are so afraid of lawsuits if an innocent bystander gets injured, and so afraid to further antagonize the gunmen, that they are paralyzed.  

I was under the same impression

About those situations here. Ahusser thinks that is ' BS revisionist history'. I sure would like to be wrong, I'm going on video footage I saw and the fact that the shooter/s seem never to be stopped by the police. It always ends in suicide.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Good morning MB and choselife

I realize that is simplication but I believe part of the problem is our guvmint schools discouraging individual independence. Also at fault are the procedures in place with different departments involved.

Two heroes are at the top of the list, Alvin York and Audie Murphy. They accomplished great things because they took the individual initiative to do what was necessary at the time. Individual initiative these days is generally discouraged.

In many cases when a police officer shows agressive individual action he is raked over the coals and sued, wait for backup is generally the rule. If an innocent bystander gets hurt there is hell to pay.

I don't believe that we will see much improvement until we get away from all this political correctness and allow good officers to do their job without being harassed by lawyers of activist groups.

BTW choselife3x I like your name.

Thank you, cocodrie!

How twisted is it that the good guys are afraid to act. Still, I wouldn't call them the 'good guys' anymore if they valued their careers over the lives of innocent people. I'd rather be tried by twelve than have an innocent person carried by six.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

choselife

you are the same as I. We are what the UN classifies as religious defectives. We believe in one God to the exclusion of all others.

One of the main reasons the left-wing extremists hate homeschooling is that students are not "properly educated socially". That means they are not properly indoctrinated with political correctness.

Fifty years ago my elders told me that the little changes in morality and society would be the ruin of America. I've seen it come to pass. Now I'm the old crazy saying that the changes of today will be the ruin of what's left of America.

How far can we go into the quicksand of change before we sink, never to rise again?

False pride and moral decay

Have been the downfall of every great society in history. I hope that in our case the Islamic attacks will cause a return to the attitude of Godly humility which founded this nation and made it great.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Hi coco,

"... I believe part of the problem is our guvmint schools discouraging individual independence."

Coco, that's a great point, but I think it's a BIG part of the problem. Maybe the only part that matters. People are discouraged from the "rugged individualism" that's so much a part of our history as a country. "To get along, go along," right? "Don't make waves." "You can't fight City Hall." And the sure path to ridicule is to point out that the Emperor has no clothes, i.e., question any of the "accepted" truths, such as AGW, or that terrorism is our fault.

To question any aspect of the modern (read: liberal) "accepted truths" is to paint a target on one's back. Even in grammar school, as my son recently found, when he was called a racist (by fellow 6th grade students) for backing McCain over Obama. A Catholic grammar school, I might add. So, even private school is no safe haven from this attack on independence of thought.

Individualism, both in action and thought, is highly discouraged in virtually all our schools. No one wants to stick their head up, or their neck out.

Why should this be? Why would our "guvmint schools" want to destroy individual initiative and thought? I can only think of one answer that makes any sense. It's a scary thought, but it's the only one that fits:

"Individuals," both in actions and thoughts, are harder to control.

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

Good morning Joe

You bring up control. That has been one of my pet peeves for years. Every new regulation an law passed by our left-wing extremist leaders is aimed at controlling law abiding citizens. They want to control who can own guns, where we go to school, where we can express religion, what we drive, are only a few examples.

The people who want to do to us what happened in India are living amongst us. How crazy was President Bush to want to listen to their phone conversations? Cell phones were the murderers method of communication. When the time comes we will only have ourselves to depend on.

It's scary when I look at all the "controlled societies" in the world.

Maybe you ought to read the Governor's report

before you irresponsibly comment about supposed dereliction of duty and cowardism on the part ot the officers. If you don't know how incredibly confusing such events can be then you are ignorant in the extreme. The police are not omniscient an all knowing and once again there was no evidence whatsoever that the police were cowardly and shirked their duty or were negiligent in any way. They responded to the dorm where they were finally directed by 911 calls and responded within 3 minutes end encountered chained doors which had to be shotgunned to open that was when the Cho killed himself when he heard the police shotgun the door. We are talking about maybe 9 officers available for  response on the entire campus, no security guards, no campus alert system on a huge campus with thousands of students. So give me a break and stow your cop hatred and Columbine was the same thing extremely confusing circumstances limited amount of police force immediately available, total panic on the part of the school population and you are expecting the police to immediately know what is happening and where it is happening and by whom and then to rush in headlong.

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

Our police did the same

Our police did the same thing at Virginia Tech. Sickening.
If you don't have the cahoneys to do the job, don't take the job. They should all be fired in disgrace.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

yes, sickening!

in my little "fantasy" world, police still protect the citizens.  in my "reality" world, i carry and am a crack shot.  wow, i don't even have cahoneys, lol!

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke

Me neither! : )

My nine millimetre does though. ;-)

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

A police friend once told me....

I'm nothing but crime scene clean up. If you called us, then the crime is done and you're the victim.

I believe it was the 7th circuit court of appeals that ruled that the police department has no civil nor legal responsibility for the protection of the individual citizen.

God bless our forefather's insight into the 2nd ammendment.

No kidding.  Even "Law and

No kidding.  Even "Law and Order" knows that.  "The police, who investigate the crimes; and the courts, who prosecute the offenders."

 

Agreed...

but they refuse to take repsonsibility of the campus being a "gun-free zone" thus making it a soft target. Could this be a result of political correctness and the free lawsuit environment and the liberal agenda?

"I shot 30 people, but because I was abused, a minority and the campus didn't have adaquate security, I didn't get my loan, and the lax gun laws allowed me to buy the gun gun and ammo, so therefore I'm not liable."

 Not to mention that the campus undoubtedly refused to take any blame for the fact the the campus cops are nothing but 'rent-a-cops' paid minimum wage.

Had ONE student had a gun, I'm sure this tragedy might have been much less tragic.

Too bad about the criminal, it's the lives of the good that matter.

NOW THERE IS SOME REVISIONIST HISTORY

Now that is some BS, ignorant and irresponsible statement. You better prove the VT cops ran away or are you just another cop hater? My remembrance of events showed no cowardice or shirking of duty by the VTPD. So I checked this. Doesn't show any either.

  

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

You're putting words in my mouth, ahusser

I said 'our cops did the same thing' as in nothing. I saw video of them huddled on the safe side of their patrol cars while shots were being fired inside the building. As far as I know the gunman never fired out of the windows at anyone outside. If any of them entered the building before the gunman killed himself I didn't hear about it. The doors were locked they say. So shoot out a f**king window and go save those unarmed people!
To infer that I am a 'cop hater' is a wild stretch of the imagination. I don't hate cops, I have a relative who is a cop. I just hope I never have to rely on one to get there in time to save me.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

ahusser, look before you leap

As an ex-policeman, surely even you recognize the changes that have happened in law enforcement. My late father was also an ex-cop, and it sickened him to see how most "modern" police forces handled these kinds of situations, let alone how unprofessional many police officers are today. Not all, by any means, but far too many. So pull in your fangs.

Choselife3x did a fine job of explaining herself to you, so I won't bother. Seems everyone else got it. Clear your mind of your knee-jerk defensiveness and maybe you will too.

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

I suggest you

Also read the Governor's report which I supplied a link above. Don't give me the cop's were better a long time ago crap.  

There was no dereliction of duty, shirking of duty, or cowardice displayed by the VTPD period. Cops are not superman with the added power of omiscience. But there seem to be a lot of folks with misguided 20/20 hindsight. Ignorance in the extreme. Just typical cop bashers. It amazes me how the conservative posters on this website laud over the military and ignore the folks that sometimes give as much. 788 police officers killed in the line of duty since 2004 to date. 4206 deaths in Iraq. I am sorry you got a ticket.

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

This is the same network

This is the same network whose reporters declined to offer any information to the US after they were caught in that hotel at the start of the first Gulf War...

Whose side are they on?

I'm so fed up with...

today's lame excuses for news networks. I saw this in the first Gulf War. I hated all new correspondants. Anything goes if it makes the front page/exclusive report.

"And now a live report from our CNN correspondant in Mumbai".

"Yes Bill, we're barricaded in a small room next to an American Jewish couple and just heard their impassioned cell phone call for police help. We're now going to broadcast live, right here on CNN, the pleas of the Jewish couple's phone call to police."

"Bill, right now as we speak, they're holed up in room 214 in the closet. Wait! It sounds like gun fire has erupted from room 214, Bill. No more cell phone calls seem to be emenating from the room. We expect the worst, Bill. Another report will follow as soon as we get video 'comfirmation' of the carnage. Back to you in CNN headquarters Bill. By the way did you hear about Obama's new plan to save America?"

I'm so disgusted at the MSM I can't even think straight.

CNN says it hasn't heard

CNN says it hasn't heard any complaints concerning its behavior in Mumbai, and that given the number of its own employees in the area it would have done everything within its power to not compromise any-one's safety.

You know, they can say anything they want and still be outright lying, as the networks always do to spin, deflect and protect their arses, anything for a story, no matters whose expense, including our own military, I remember not that long ago a video that they took of our military in action in Iraq which was horrendous they released and televised, as some special I think it was...

Seems to me, since CNN is also international, isn't their a way to sue the hell out of the network, it is high time someone did with cases like this, I know they have money backed for legal cases, but if more people would start suing these networks, if possible, we may get some responsibility, let alone accountability and firings of those responsible, no matter how high it goes to top of the food chain at the networks ect.

Well, just a thought, and most likely a pipe-dream. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Anything for a story...

I remember a story with video (filmed by a terrorist) showing a soldier being shot by a terrorist sniper that seemed good for business according to the MSM. "Sorry that the hero's family may see his death "live on CNN". After all, we're dedicated to bringing the story to the public since after all, they do have a right to know ... and the our news station is number 1..."

I felt sick to my stomach as the scene was shown over and over again. Anything's OK for the front page. FNC wouldn't show it.

What better way to show the enemy that they're winning than by showing this kinda of....I won't say it.

It's OK for the MSM to show our heros as the bad guys, but when it come to what happenend in Mumbai, there always seems to be a reason to justify their actions such as world economics,climate change, child abuse or whatever.

In WWII, these "journalists" would have been severely censured or disciplined.

rat bastards

You're right, Wilbur...it sickened me considerably. And they WILL NOT show the Sept. 11 attack at all which,frankly, should be shown on every station as a matter-of -fact on a daily basis.

Look at our country.Man...just look at us.

Wilbut and

Wilbut and sentforth...

Wilbur...the video you are talking about is the one I was thinking of, it made me sick to my stomach...CNN is simply sickening, can you imagine being the parents of that soldier or wife, child ect...like you say, the repeated this endlessly.

Sentforth... I have posted the same sentiment as you have numerous times in the past here about 9-11, the libs scream "where's the sensitivity, people aren't ready for this yet..." blah blah blah... The networks never showed all the terribleness of that day, because they decide what we can and cannot handle out here in the real world, yet what I see them showing when they want repeatedly makes me furious, sick to my stomach, and all that jazz.

The real reason the left screams about not showing the tragedy of the people jumping from the windows or the bodies ect ect...is because they do not want this country remaining strong, feeling anger or loss, protection first, and God-forbid, reality hitting even the La-La-Leftists with simple things like facts via video to the television screen, they are afraid this may, just may wake them up to the fact that the conservatives are right, we need to defend and protect this country first at all costs, we need to fight back to the end with the enemies, win the WOT, we have plenty of groups within who want us dead and are patiently waiting to attack again, but nooooo...we have to kiss their arses and pray for the best...love the leftists and pretend like everything is sunshine and lollipops.

We are so forked.

That's my rant for now, I keep getting interrrupted here, so I am just going to post this and hope you get my point, if either of you are still here.  

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

We may be forked...but we ain't done!

BT...I cannot, nor will I ever try ever to imagine the thoughts of a wife, child or parent following a tragedy. I've accompanied my commander and the Chaplain to a house on more than enough occasions. Once is too much.

I wish the CNN boss could've accompanied my visit.

I agree that the left doesn't want America to be strong. 'Why' is the question. What's their motive? Why does the left feel we need to subserviate ourselves to the beliefs of terrorists? Is it because of socio-economics? Is it because they need to feel sorry for their plight? I'm afraid that answer won't be solved anytime soon.

We need to protect America yet, where I live, the border is open, and any terrorist can simply walk across the border...anywhere, anytime.

I feel the attack on India will eventually occur here.

BTW, BT I enjoy all your "rants"...keep posting!

Ahhhhh, the million dollar question....

Why? .........................IMHO

Money. The ability to "spread the wealth" as it is with global taxes imposed from birth to death, but to keep their "cut" for the betterment
of mankind.

Power. The power to manipulate your individualism and american exceptualism to service their wants, needs and vision of the "perfect" world as seen through their myopic eyes for their damned souls.

Religion. Their religion - the god of gaia the all powerful and omnipotent mother of all things wordly. High priest Algore and his minions to serve and protect you, from yourself.

Money, power and religion is the short answer. The long answer is being debated here and other conservative sites on what must be done to combat this lurking evil that threatens to destroy the American way, the conservative way, of thought, deed and human compassion. The left is a serious lethal cancer that is spreading, infecting all it contacts and leaving behind an empty husk to be replaced by hope, change and blind obedience.

PS - Thank you for your service and compassion.

 

good morning, bigtimer

Yeah, I zonked out early last night...I am afraid that I have got some seasonal cold-type thing that's rushing me like a bomb going off in my chest. I'm one of them health nuts, too, you know..Biblical diet and such, so it really makes me sad.

I am in agreement about the Sept. 11 stuff. EVERY morning EVERY tv station should run that footage, lest our empty-headed masses forget who our enemy is. It is tragic that we align with our enemies for the sake of satanic PC. But, alas, the tv is as big an enemy to America as the savage dogs we are at war with.

I pray for my country daily. I guess we get what we get.

How many MSM stories...

talked about the past lives of the 9-11 murder victims?  Instead they focused on the terrorists. "How did they suffer?...how poor and desparate were their families?  Why did they feel the need to kill 3000 innocent people? They must've suffered so much."

Never mind how Americans feel.

Never mind the victims' families feel.

Never mind how the MSM portrayed the many single mothers/fathers as well as entire families that were disrupted by the attacks.  It's only about how the MSM views their 'real victims'...the terrorists.

As far as our country goes...it's up to US to change it!  Although we've suffered a set back, we need to pull up our bootstraps decide what our values are. Vote our true beliefs, not our 'feelings'. Be true conservatives, vote rationally.  History shows that conservatism will prevail over liberalism.

I believe we will again prosper. We must suffer through another Jimmy Carter to again be on top. We will prevail.

it's kinda funny

CNN has endangered every American there is by NOT reporting anything significant about obamabinladen.

Hey, Bush hasn't been blamed

Hey, Bush hasn't been blamed for this...yet (unless I missed it)

Just wait until Bathtub boy

Just wait until Bathtub boy drys off and gets to work. He didn't deem this story lead story status Wednesday. When he did get to it he warned that the GOP would use this as part of their fear campaign.

 

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

There is an Indian living

There is an Indian living here, Deepak Chopra, that did blame the United States for the actions in Bombay.  Typical.  Bite the hand that feeds them.

When my son was in Sadr City on his first tour in Iraq, a Newsweek reporter attempted to get a story from him for their rag.  By the time my son was done chewing that reporters ass out he was running away from him! 

He asked him why they were not reporting the truth back to the states, told him that all the soldiers were aware of what was being said about them in their own press. 

I still say if any Republican ever grants an interview with CNN they ought to get voted out on the nearest election.  

Congrats on bringing up

Congrats on bringing up such a great son. He sounds a magnificent warrior.

You must be ultra-proud. 

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same...
Yours is the earth and all that's in it...

Thank you Jack,I am very

Thank you Jack,

I am very proud of him, he is now stationed at Ft Gordon, GA.

My next to the youngest son just arrived in Afghanistan yesterday.  He in is the AF reserves. I am proud of all (4) my sons.  

C-Rex,

Sounds like you're one helluva good father. My hat's off to you.

May God bless and keep you and yours, especially the youngest now in harm's way. Thank him for me, when you get the chance.

And thank you for contributing your sons to our great country.

 

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

TRIDENT

I'm glad this subject finally came up.

A guest from the Trident was on CNN. Near the end of the interview the talking head teleprompter idiot was hell bent on getting the guest to say where he was but the hotel guest on the phone finally said he didn't want to say fearing the bad guys are still at large and monitoring the media.

... CNN throughout the interview had the hotel guests first name along with the name of the hotel plastered on the screen.

TRIDENT 

 

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

They'd last about 2 minutes maximum in Alaska.

They'd  get a few shots off and be gunned down by the many armed citizens here.  No permit required to carry concealed in Alaska.

Had some guys here from  the UK, and they just couldn't believe that we were "allowed" to carry guns on our person...or own them at all for that matter.  What a shame.  They have completely forgotten what it means to be free.

An armed society is a polite society.

Happy Trails...

CNN has turned into part of the problem

It's that simple really.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

Duh! This is WAR, not a criminal activity

CNN lost me when during the 1990s they supported Islamic terrorist activities.
I hope they sue them and win big, opening the opportunity for others that CNN has jeopardized to sue as well.

Even if it is not true

There are two points to ponder here.

First, it was believable. The media doesn't care about the victims, only the story. Witness the dying baby penguins in that movie last year. All the photographers had to do was reach down and save them, but no, being objective was more important. Or the story about the Mumbai photographer following the terrorists around taking pictures. Did he call anybody to report where the terrorists were? Probably not. It was more important to "objectively" document the story. We all believe that CNN would report the story even if it endangered somebody. Who was that CNN reporter based in Baghdad that distorted the news so he could stay there? Journalists wouldn't call the cops to save a victim if they could get a better story. To a journalist a dead victim is worth more than a saved victim. That's the issue here.

Second, the seriousness of the accusation is an issue as Rush would say. The Democrats use the media's desire to smear people to their advantage by making serious accusations of conservatives. Who cares if it is true. Being a Demcrat or Liberal means never having to say your are sorry. Being a consevative means posting the truth with the same visibility as the original story. Good job NB.

i searched and searched...

...the web and could not find one instance where the shaws "corrected" the story, though there are quotes from them as late as this morning.  even their home town paper in south wales left it that cnn divulged their location.  smart money is on "they are guilty as sin"!

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke

→ CNN motto

Never let the safety of human life get in the way of a good story.

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