One way to censor the media...

[EricTheRed 0]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/international/middleeast/29journalists.html

Kinda harsh though.

illegible usually

[skycop 0]

Run around in a war zone with a camera on your shoulder, looks an awful lot like an RPG.......
I say reporting from a war zone can be hazardous to your health.

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[Darius11 12]

It is a war zone.
He made a choice to be in it. Enough said.
May he RIP.

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[n23x 0]

Then again, if they can't tell a video camera and a boom mike from weapons of war, what other mistakes might occur? Does that make it ok?

.jim

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[Trent 0]

We can't profile weapons just because of the way they look... otherwise the bad guys will start using weapons that look like boom mics and cameras.

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[billvon 3,107]

Happening a lot lately. More journalists have been killed in Iraq than were killed in Vietnam.

[shropshire 0]

Could that be because there are more jurnos in Iraq than there were in Vietnam?

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[billvon 3,107]

>Could that be because there are more jurnos in Iraq than there
>were in Vietnam?

Yep, and they need more support. Reporters don't go into combat with a pad of paper and a camera any more. Now there will be a team of 3-4 journalists running around, taking pictures and being targets.

[shropshire 0]

Not sure if this is true, but I heard/read (?) that not many journalists were up at the front during Vietnam, preferring/(or required to) stay back at the hotels waiting for stories to be handed to them... Is this the case?

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[Tink1717 2]

It might take a while longer, but it is WAY more effective than indirect methods.

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[Gawain 0]

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Not sure if this is true, but I heard/read (?) that not many journalists were up at the front during Vietnam, preferring/(or required to) stay back at the hotels waiting for stories to be handed to them... Is this the case?

I believe you are correct, but if you run a search of current news events, the editor of the Tampa Tribune emailed a senior editor at AP in NY to find more news out of Iraq and obtain greater breadth of stories. The AP response was essentially: "A lot of our reporters don't leave the hotel".

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!