Over 1,100 journalists killed in decade-report (just released by Internat'l News Safety Institute)

[Judi Lynn]

Over 1,100 journalists killed in decade-report
06 Mar 2007 18:05:15 GMT
Source: Reuters

By David Clarke

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - More than 1,100 journalists and support staff have been killed carrying out their work in the past decade and the annual toll has jumped since 2003, the year of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a report said on Tuesday.

The study by the International News Safety Institute (INSI), a coalition of media organisations, press freedom groups and humanitarian campaigners, showed Iraq was the most dangerous place for journalists, followed by Russia and Colombia.
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"The figures show that killing a journalist is virtually risk free," said Richard Sambrook, global news director at the British Broadcasting Corporation, who led the inquiry.
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"The first shocking thing about this report is to learn just how many are dying," Harold Evans, former editor of Britain's Sunday Times and Times newspapers, said in a foreword.

"The second shocking thing is to learn how many were murdered, most of them local beat reporters whose names do not resonate in the media ... the majority of journalists' deaths are not bad luck. They are planned assassinations," he said.
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http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06229089.htm

[GliderGuider]

1. Roundhouse kick

The ones they kill are the good guys, the real reporters who tell the truth as they find it and don't regurgitate media releases, the ones who earned us the Right to a Free Press.

[alittlelark]

2. Keep those flaky trutheseekers under control....

If you think for yourself you are a risk........bang ,bang - or jump - or 'friendly fire', or "damn, this doesn't taste so good", or "I hate my life and need to kill myself" (ignore the happy family left behind).



The 'journalists' we have now are cowtowed and weak.




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