Reuters Baghdad Chief Cites Growing Iraq Dangers; Times Sq. Screen...

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Honors 67 Slain Journalists

Editor & Publisher: Reuters' Baghdad Chief Cites Growing Dangers In Iraq--As Giant Times Square Screen Honors 67 Slain Journalists
By Dave Astor
Published: March 14, 2006


NEW YORK As Iraq bureau chief for Reuters, Alastair Macdonald is a long way from New York City. But he appreciates that Reuters today began using its huge sign in Manhattan's Times Square to draw attention to the many journalists who have died in Iraq since the U.S. invasion nearly three years ago.

"It's worthwhile for us to remind people about the price of the news they're getting from Iraq," MacDonald told E&P, when reached by phone this morning in Reuters' Baghdad bureau. "And the sign is timely, because the dangers are becoming greater. Three Iraqi journalists were shot dead, assassination-style, during the past seven days."

Reuters' Times Square sign will continously run the names of 67 journalists -- as well as a montage of some of the war's most iconic and harrowing photos -- through the end of this month. Four of the 67 who were killed covering the war worked for Reuters, noted Macdonald, and a fifth Reuters person died in a car accident in Iraq.

Other journalists, such as Jill Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor, have been kidnapped (she is still being held).

Macdonald, 43, knew three of the Reuters people who died. "It's very hard for us to lose friends this way," he said, adding that all three were killed by U.S. soldiers....


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1. Reuters Times Square sign will run the names

of 67 Americans killed in the fighting?

Not if Karl Rove has anything to say about it. I can't imagine this creep would just sit by and let Reuters do this.