Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

100 journalists killed so far this year
AP ^ | June 29, 2007 | Slobodan Lekic

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2007review; agoodstart; journalist
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-131 next last
To: MinuteGal
It helps people vent and carry on when news is tragic, disasterous or frightening. This natural instinct is as old as mankind.

Uptight, holier-than-thou people don't like black humor one bit.

Those types would hate to hear us over here. The gallows humor is thick. It is woven into our common conversations.

Those without the ability to "get" or appreciate black humor do not last here. I've seen it - they get easily freaked and end up going home.

61 posted on 06/30/2007 9:05:17 AM PDT by Allegra (Socks.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Allegra

Such will power I’m very impressed.


62 posted on 06/30/2007 9:23:39 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: MinuteGal

Too bad you see politeness and good manners as “uptight and holier-than-thou.”

Black humor is supposed to be funny. The crass comments on this thread are not.

I live among conservative people who know how to laugh and who live with good cheer. They would never say these hateful things.

A legitimate philosophy or point-of-view that can’t be stated with civility diminishes the argument.

And, on a personal level, I simply don’t want to be associated with rudeness.


63 posted on 06/30/2007 9:37:47 AM PDT by Jedidah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: leadpenny
We’re Americans and no one should condone what took place at AG or My Lai.

Apples and oranges...

At AG we pestered and embarassed non-uniformed combatants and murderers. At My Lai we killed non-combatant civilians.

If your liberal "moral equivalence" blinds you to that difference, please tell me where you practice "journalism" -- and I'll avoid it like the plague!

64 posted on 06/30/2007 9:43:25 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Charlespg
"Has their been news from hell yet?"

LOL....Cump was no fan of the press...

"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast."

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are."

"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. "

65 posted on 06/30/2007 9:44:51 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: TXnMA
It’s not apples and oranges. Both My Lai and AG violated the Geneva Convention. Further, both were failures of command and the chain of command, and they involved cover-ups.

“If your liberal “moral equivalence” blinds you to that difference, please tell me where you practice “journalism” — and I’ll avoid it like the plague!”

Babble.

66 posted on 06/30/2007 9:51:49 AM PDT by leadpenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: leadpenny

The Geneva Convention does not apply to disguised (non-uniformed) combatants; they are to be treated as spies (or murderers — if engaged in combat when caught).


67 posted on 06/30/2007 10:19:20 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: TXnMA

So you’re arguing that what took place at AG was okay?

There had to be laws or regulations that were violated or why else were careers destroyed over it.

I maintain the effect of My Lay and AG were the same in the eyes of the world in general and the American people in particular. That’s not because of journalism. It’s because collectively people make up their minds.

In neither case - ML or AG - did it have to happen.


68 posted on 06/30/2007 10:53:58 AM PDT by leadpenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: period end of story
[.. 100 journalists killed so far this year ..]

Well.... thats a good start..

69 posted on 06/30/2007 11:00:11 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: leadpenny
"In neither case - ML or AG - did it have to happen.

Agreed. And I am proud of neither one.

OTOH, absent the constant, month-long drum-beating by the enemedia, the American people would never have condidered hazing of terrorists to be morally equivalent to beheadings of captive journalists or the slaughter of non-combatants.

The blood be upon the hands of (you) "journalists" (aka "enemy propagandists")...

70 posted on 06/30/2007 11:11:45 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: TXnMA

“The blood be upon the hands of (you) . . .”

Ya know what? Screw you. I never said they were equivalent, and to say that Americans see AG and “beheadings” as morally the same, is elitist. I said the effect on the American people of My Lai and AG were the same. People can figure out what is right and wrong without you or anyone else interpreting for them.

Journalists have no more impact on the collective thinking of Americans than Radio Talk Show hosts do. To say journalists are “enemy propagandists” is to say Americans are mind numbed robots. I have more trust in the American people than that. Obviously, as an elitist, you don’t.


71 posted on 06/30/2007 2:18:39 PM PDT by leadpenny
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: leadpenny; All

It is not the point whether or not I accept it at face value, look for other sources or simply discount it.

The point is that this is a supposedly “objective” “news” object on Yahoo.com from the Associated Press which is viewed as reliable by millions of people around the world.

They didn’t just make an equivalence between some guy who no one knows anything about (a resident of Sadr City, no less, as you know a notorious hotbed of virulent anti-American sentiment) accusing the US forces of indiscriminate use of force, and a US spokesman who is getting the facts from our personnel in the area.

They gave that person the voice of fact, and put the American forces in a position to have to defend those charges.

THAT is what I have an issue with. And THAT is the template that the media has shown through its ACTIONS, not my opinion, that it will apply to any situation.


72 posted on 06/30/2007 3:45:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: period end of story

I am surprised that they could even find 100 “Journalists” in 2007.


73 posted on 06/30/2007 3:47:10 PM PDT by Radix (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Allegra

lol.


74 posted on 06/30/2007 3:48:31 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We go into the dark places....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Allegra
It's a...

There, I've spotted you the first two words.

75 posted on 06/30/2007 3:50:54 PM PDT by rabidralph
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Allegra

I suppose there are a few good journalist somewhere. They are as rare as an honest lawyer. Come to think of it, I can’t name a honest lawyer.


76 posted on 06/30/2007 4:05:22 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Radix
Loose interpretation of the word.
77 posted on 06/30/2007 4:06:30 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We go into the dark places....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: fish hawk

Heya Fish Hawk...:)


78 posted on 06/30/2007 5:05:07 PM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: rlmorel

I saw you lurking around here so I thought I’d throw in my two cents. LOL


79 posted on 06/30/2007 5:30:08 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: leadpenny

Yeh, Thompson’s war was my war, too. I remember all about the reporting on My Lai and Calley, etal-shiite happens. Sounds like you might have a case of PTSD over something you read about in our glorious, unbiased press.


80 posted on 06/30/2007 5:45:28 PM PDT by izzatzo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-131 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson