Greenpeace, and similar pressure groups, frequently bring journalists on operations who are either very biased toward their cause, or who are card carrying members - and just happen also to be journalists.

I am sympathetic when actual journalists who are "embedded" in a story - to provide an "objective" perspective of happenings to the public- get detained. However, do not have similar sympathy for those who call themselves "journalists" who are part of a PR portion of an operation for the group and are not present to produce "an objective" journalistic perspective on events.


I don't know what the case is here - but the email makes me suspicious that the journalists presence on board may have been part of a PR effort associated with the Greenpeace operation.