2007 deadliest year ever for news media.
2007 deadliest year ever for news media.
With “at least 171 journalists and other news media staff” killed “as a result of their work around the world so far this year,” 2007 has become “the bloodiest year on record for the industry.” “The all-time high of 168 deaths” in 2006 was eclipsed on Tuesday “when at least three editorial staff were killed in Sri Lanka.” With 64 deaths this year, Iraq is by far “the most murderous country” in the world for news media.
(HT: Greenslade)
UPDATE: The United States, Britain, and France today publicly pledged to “take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of journalists in war zones.” AP reports:
The three countries became the first signatories of the Geneva Conventions to accept a new nonbinding accord on protecting correspondents in conflict, said the International Committee of the Red Cross, which oversees compliance with the 1949 treaty on the rules of war. [...]
Media rights campaigners cautiously welcomed the pledge, but said its effectiveness would be measured by what the countries did in practice.
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Free Bilal!!!
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November 30th, 2007 at 1:43 pmWho is Bila?
November 30th, 2007 at 1:44 pmThe United States, Britain, and France today publicly pledged to “take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of journalists in war zones.â€
Would that include not launching unjustified wars of aggression and aggrandizement?
November 30th, 2007 at 1:45 pmGrist, an online environmental magazine, recently sent out a fundraising letter which I found in extremely poor taste. They claimed that one of their writers had been kidnapped and was being held hostage. To me, this seemed grossly offensive given how many real journalists are putting their life on the line to bring us news from war zones right now.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:46 pmmore blackwater contracts?
hmmm….
November 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pmThis is the reason for all the good news coming out of Iraq.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:49 pmPrivate news media is terrorized and Government/Corporate media prevails.
US withdraws UN text backing Mideast peace process: diplomat
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The United States on Friday withdrew a resolution it had presented to the UN Security Council endorsing the Annapolis conference relaunch of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, said a diplomat close to the Security Council.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071130/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyunus
THAT MAN BUSH IS A WIND UP AND WASTE OF TIME
November 30th, 2007 at 1:57 pmHow exactly do they plan on doing this? By physically guarding the journalists?
One of the big differences between the media in the Vietnam and the media today in the Middle East (or so I’ve noticed in documentaries, as I’m only 25 years old) is that the journalists in Vietnam were not embedded with the military. They took pictures of the situation without the supervision of the United States government, hence the outrage when the American people saw the results.
The Bush Administration has learned a lesson since Vietnam. If they want to keep the American people from rising up, they need to make sure we don’t really see what’s going on.
The reporting now only consists of reporters in the Green Zone and around United States troops. How often do we see reports from an unguarded Iraqi street?
No one ever said journalism is easy, and the crime of killing a journalist should be prosecuted with the harshest of penalties, but it is a problem that needs to be solved using justice. I fear that this pledge means that there will be further shielding of the media from what is going on outside of Bush Administration-approved zones.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:17 pmNot just reporters–Journalism passed away this year too, after a protracted illness.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:18 pmThe United States, Britain, and France today publicly pledged to “take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of journalists in war zones.”
The United States added, “Of course, that only applies to journalists who aren’t working for the terrarists. You’re either with us or ag’in us.”
November 30th, 2007 at 3:15 pm