Murder kills more reporters than war in Iraq

[kpete]

Murder kills more reporters than war in Iraq: CPJ
Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:52 PM ET



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Murder has overtaken war as the leading killer of journalists in Iraq, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday, in a study compiled for the third anniversary of the war.

Cross-fire and other acts of war previously had been considered the leading cause of death of journalists and media support workers in Iraq, but the dangers have shifted, the CPJ said.

In the past 10 days alone, suspected insurgents have murdered three Iraqi journalists and one media support worker, the CPJ said, raising the death toll to 67 journalists and 24 media support workers killed since the war began on March 20, 2003.

The New York-based CPJ called the Iraq war the deadliest conflict for the media in recent history, while the international Reporters Without Borders puts the death toll at 83 and says the war in Iraq has killed more than the Vietnam War.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-03-17T175208Z_01_N17268530_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-JOURNALISTS.xml

[gkhouston]

1. this seems like a distinction without a difference

The journalists are there, and losing their lives, because of the war. It's not like they're getting blown away in a convenience store robbery. :eyes: