A total of 84 reporters and media staffers have been killed in Iraq

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-reporters-killed-iraq,0,5249102.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Journalist Death Toll High in Iraq War

PARIS -- More journalists and media staffers have been killed during the Iraq war than during any conflict since World War II, Reporters Without Borders said Monday, the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

A total of 84 reporters and media staffers have been killed in the Iraq war -- including eight this year -- according to a report by the Paris-based media advocacy group. That was more than the 63 journalists killed during 22 years of conflict in Vietnam, the statement said.

The Iraq war death toll also has exceeded the number of journalists and staffers killed during conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Algeria, the statement said. The group said it was difficult to calculate a comparable number for World War II, partly because tallies at the time did not include staff members such as translators or drivers.

More than half the journalists killed in Iraq have been deliberately targeted, Reporters Without Borders said, adding that "the rate was much higher than in previous wars" where indiscriminate attacks and stray bullets were the main causes of death.

but but Ingraham thinks NBC should send Mat Lauer to Iraq...

LAURA INGRAHAM: Well here, here’s what I think David. I think with all the resources of networks like NBC. The Today show spends all this money to send people to the Olympics, which is great, it was great programming. All this money for Where In The World Is Matt Lauer? Bring the Today show to Iraq. Bring the Today show to Tal Afar. Do the show from the 4th ID at Camp Victory and then when you talk to those soldiers on the ground, when you go out with the Iraqi military, when you talk to the villagers, when you see the children, then I want NBC to report on only the IEDs, only the killings, only, only the reprisals.

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1. Video: Olbermann's Response to Ingraham's comments

VIDEO- KO Takes on Laura Ingraham - Desperate and Stupid (Thread started by liveoaktx)

OLBERMANN: Let‘s analyze the restarted war against the media on this with Richard Wolffe of “Newsweek” magazine.

But before we do, a note about Laura Ingraham‘s comments. I‘ve known her a long time. I‘ll in fact give you the caveat that I‘ve known her socially.

But that hotel balcony crack was unforgivable. It was unforgivable to the memory of David Bloom, it was unforgivable in consideration of Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt, it was unforgivable in the light of what happened to Michael Kelly and what happened to Michael Weiskopf. It was unforgivable with Jill Carroll still a hostage in Iraq.

And it‘s not only unforgivable of her, it was desperate, and it was stupid.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11975495/

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2. Wow, that's a pretty shocking number

And it's already well eclipsed the number from 22 years in Vietnam.