Posted on 06/30/2007 6:07:08 AM PDT by period end of story
BRUSSELS, Belgium - One hundred journalists and other news media workers died on the job in the first six months of the year, putting 2007 on the path to becoming the deadliest year for the news business, the International News Safety Institute said Friday.
Iraq has been the most dangerous country for journalists in recent years, and the group said the 100-mark was reached with a death there Tuesday the killing of Hamed Sarha, a 30-year veteran of the Iraqi national news agency by unidentified gunmen.
According to statistics compiled by the Brussels-based group, 83 journalists and 17 other media professionals died around the globe covering news stories between Jan. 1 and June 26, with 72 of them slain.
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“SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISTS. BRING THEM HOME NOW!”
Well said. I also think we would have a better understanding of what is going on over there. The Public Affairs Office could provide periodic reports.
In both the AG and the My Lai incidents it was members of the military who brought it to the attention of their chains of command. As far as I know, getting that information to the press was first done via press releases.
Should the press not have run with the story?
Words from our self-professed nice, polite, professional, honorable journalists. I do so appreciate your high toned lectures on this tread.
I followed your thread with TXnMA and he is right on the issues to include the Geneva convention and the American press' moral equivalence between America and American soldiers on the one hand, and America’s enemies on the other hand. Moral equivalence is neither reasonable nor patriotic - contrary to much of the preening press of the 20th century.
Tell me there is blood on my hands and I’ll tell you the same thing.
He thought you were a journalist. So did I.
The days of Ernie Pyle are long gone.
I dare you to compare AG to these atrocities. Why don't you know about this? Why don't you post these news reports? Why, because you cannot handle the truth.
Bless the Beasts and Children
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm
This report has already been posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859145/posts
Thanks Pinch and others in the elite media already have their story. They do not care about the truth nor people dying.
If a journalist is killed by a terrorist does he get 72 virgins??
Pray for W and Our Troops
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