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I am still waiting for Shep to explain the difference to me between some reporter going into a home where thugs are holding a family hostage and then broadcasting their rantings and ravings live on TV and what the reporters in Baghdad did by broadcasting the rantings and ravings of a regime that was holding an entire country hostage.

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[WOSG]

With due respect, you sound petty. These journalists should be mourned as should any non-combatant casualty, as an unfortunate and sad incident. One of the Al jazeera journalists left behind a 2 year old son. that is a pity and a shame, irregardless of Al Jazeera's biased anti-american coverage.

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[Enterprise]

Good letter!

[error99]

You're so vain, you probably think this reply is about you.
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[nunya bidness]

Just for clarification: Shep's comments were in response to the letter he read which was in response to the story Shep read about David Bloom and Michael Kelly. And in that respect Shep's comments were dead on.

[Nagual]

It's sad to lose a life on that I agree.

Your analysis is right on. Remember how they protected the Clintons. "Character doesn't matter" and all the other crap the carry for the left.

Thank you Lord for Fox, Rush and all the rest of the good guys.

[In mourning for six years]

Good letter, and I agree with you about most journalists. What exactly did Shep say about dead journalitsts? I know that last evening he seemed very upset by a letter that he recieved from a viewer saying that the viewer did not feel sorry for the dead reporters. I was going to stay up and listen, but I was much too tired. Shep annoys me most times--he seems to be a whiney leftist.

[tiredoflurking]

No one mourns their loss? Funny but I've seen images of quite a few people mourning their loss.

While I acknowledge that it's frightening how powerful the media can be in shaping an entire country's point of view (just look at the Arabs), I still can't say that journalists were expendable human beings. I learned to respect them, especially the cameramen, on 9/11 when they risked life and limb to bring us the images that allowed us all to be witnesses to what the New Yorkers in the streets were going through. These images also shaped our point of view, and that's not always a bad thing.

Do you know these dead journalists well enough to know that they deserve to be painted with this broad brush? At least two of them had prior Fox News affiliations, one had been a producer there.

[Finny]

Good letter.

Yesterday morning the news was on in the gym, to one of the Big Three newses (I forget which ... abc, nbc, cbs, they're all the same to me). It was during that first toppling of the giant Saddam statue. The idiot anchor pointed out several times that such huge monuments as statues and murals went back for "centuries" into the Middle Eastern cultures, as if to explain their presence in Iraq. No mention that egomaniacal dictators like Stalin and Mao also built such monuments to themselves. I was so disgusted by the lack of historical perspective that anchor provided. Worse, he and the gal (it was Diane Sawyer, now I remember) were commenting on the goings-on in a way that was very nearly condescending, as if to really say, "These quaint third-world people whacking away at the statue, how amusing!" Again, DISGUST on my end. In their smug commentary, Sawyer and whatshisname exhibited ZERO empathy, ZERO true compassion, ZERO recognition or respect for the dignity of those jubilant Iraqi citizens' heartfelt rejoicing in the destruction of a symbol of evil, suffering, death, and repression.

"Journalists" my A$$!!

[rwfromkansas]

callous

Not all the journalists who died are enemies of America. Sure, some, but not all.