Whither Anti-War War Journalists?

Al Jazeera reports that Richard Gizbert, the Brittish ABC reporter who was fired after refusing to report from Afghanistan and Iraq, is going after ABC for $4 million in lost income.

There was a day when if you were a war journalist, you accepted the job and you covered the war. If you couldn't do that, then your employer was entitled to tell you to go find a job that let you cover a city council or a celebrity pedophile somewhere. No one would expect you to keep your career. You're either fodder for the news-hungry machine, or you're not.

Gizbert is taking his case to a "British employment tribunal," which doesn't sound good for ABC, but I hope the tribunalists (?) see this case clearly and sends Gizbert packing.

Al Jazeera, by the way, had its typical anti-American fun with the story. Here's the picture they ran with the Gizbert story:



And for the record, here's a picture of Gizbert:



h/t Media Bistro