That's what Daniel Pearl of the WSJ was doing. The NYT reporters prefer to stick with safe targets.
You bring up a salient point. It's worth noting that in this war, more journalists have died than in previous ones. They are targeted by the terrorists/insurgents. But instead of the reporters and editors decrying this breach of Geneva Conventions by the terrorists, or denouncing their inhumanity and ruthlessness, they keep denouncing the United States.
Morons.
Morons.
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I'll second that!