Documenting civilian war casualties cost a U.S. journalist his career

Evidence

With Mary Andolino, Alpert filmed it all and produced the first segment for U.S. audiences on the civilian toll of the First Gulf War. Alpert had gotten past the Iraqi censors, but not the official American narrative of the war, a story then endorsed by the major media. While the footage was damning, Alpert was damned. He was fired from NBC and ostracized from the fourth estate. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 728

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of speech suppressed by dominant state narratives, echoing The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s critique of American self-narratives.
• SEED: Angle: journalists punished for reporting civilian war deaths that contradict the official ‘clean war’ narrative — a recurring pattern from Gulf War to now.