Posted on 03/30/2015 8:02:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The president and CEO of The Associated Press called on Monday for changes to international laws that would make it a war crime to kill journalists or take them hostage.
Gary Pruitt said a new framework is needed to protect journalists as they cover conflicts in which they are increasingly seen as targets by extremist groups. [ ]
Last year was a particularly deadly year for the APfour of the news cooperatives journalists were killed on assignment. Globally, 61 journalists were killed in the line of duty in 2014, bringing to more than 1,000 the number who have died since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. [ ]
Pruitt said existing international laws should be updated to protect journalists. He proposed creating a new protocol to the Geneva Conventions to make the killing of a journalist a specific war crime. He also suggested adapting articles of the International Criminal Court, which deals with war crimes, to specifically cover journalists.
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"Line of duty"? Hardly.
Try "In pursuit of a story"
How self-important can we be? Wow...
The people we are currently fighting don’t give a fig about the concept of war crimes.
Killing of journalists? Is that really a crime?
That’s what’s running the Dissociated Press. When they fall, they’ll surely become a byword, as the saying goes.
Why not? They have completely abdicated their duty to research and truthfully spread all news of public interest without suffering any consequence whatsoever.
I don’t have a problem with this if they tell the truth. The minute they make it about an agenda, they are fair game because they are no longer reporters.
Funny how they went from “reporter” to “journalist”.
Kind of like how businesses shifted from “personnel department” to “human resources department” (the latter implies reinstitution of slavery, when scrutinized).
No, killing of conservative journalists should be a war crime.
Killing of your typical MSM “journalist” should be rewarded as we once did for bounty hunters.
Remember, the only diff between a MSM “journalist” and a court transcriber is that one repeats court proceedings verbatim and the other repeats the democratic party statements verbatim.
It's a start ...
Yes; the only thing they consider a “war crime” is being defeated by the infidels.
If you are a state owned journalist for the other side, you are the enemy
Littering. A misdemeanor.
True. They kill their own, so what makes journalists think they are special?.......
So Pruitt, like Ernie Pyle was?
....and journalists and CEO’s of media who conspire with corrupt,lawless,and illegitimate administrations should be hung.
“AP president: Killing of journalists should be a war crime”
Hey Gary do you know any journalists?
Next thing you know, they’ll want to make
killing civilians a crime too.....oh wait.
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