Sports Journalism on the Frontlines - Pat Tillman

[Memekiller]

Source: CBSNews PublicEye

Mike Fish is the ESPN.com reporter who dug and dug into the Pat Tillman fratricide story and came up with a 19,000-word journalistic gem, one called “the most important story ESPN.com has ever done” by the copy chief at the site.

The story begins by asking four main questions about the football-star-turned-soldier’s death, and then compellingly answers them in great detail. It’s a singular investigative accomplishment that takes the time to “connect the dots” and blow nearly all the fog of war from the story.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/10/05/publiceye/entry3336086.shtml#ccmm

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For journalism, you have to go to the sports section.

[Memekiller]

1. bump

[MasonJar]

2. Do you know how to link to the article and when and where it was

printed? I have tried to google it to no avail.

[0007]

3. Here ya go;

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tillmanpart1

The four question that Mike Fish dug for;

• Are the Rangers who fired at Tillman and their other fellow soldiers guilty of criminal wrongdoing?

• Why did the Army glorify Tillman's actions on the battlefield during the firefight in which he was killed?

• Did the Army purposely conceal that Tillman had been killed by friendly fire? If so, why?

• And did the Army consciously puff up the Tillman story by awarding the dead soldier a Silver Star, its third-highest distinction for combat valor, to go along with his Purple Heart and a posthumous promotion from specialist to corporal?