Talk about your arrogance.
Yeah, ordinary Iraqis hardly get any print (if they get it at all), but when a shit one of their own is killed, well, spare no space, right?
"Conflict takes deadly toll on journalists, especially those from Iraq" by Christian Berthelsen/Los Angeles Times October 16, 2007
BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi journalists were killed in separate attacks Sunday, marking one of the deadliest days for reporters covering war-torn country in nearly a year.
[Yeah, but the 35 people killed every day, and the number of Iraqis killed by the surge (around 300 per day, 10,000 per month) and the 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion?
Try finding reports on them, readers.]
Four reporters for Iraqi media organizations were reported shot to death in ambushes near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Previously reported was the death of Salih Saif Aldin, a correspondent for The Washington Post who apparently was shot to death Sunday while on assignment in the dangerous Sadiyah neighborhood of southwest Baghdad.
Iraqi journalists have faced the greatest dangers covering the war in Iraq, and they have borne the brunt of deaths among reporters. Western media organizations rely on Iraqi journalists for street reporting, going where foreign correspondents often cannot go because of the dangers to Westerners. Although they speak the language and blend in more easily, the Iraqi reporters often face equal threats: Iraqis discovered working for Western media organizations are treated as enemy collaborators.
[I view these deaths -- just like all the deaths of this war -- in part on the ENABLING, COMPLIANT MSM!
Would these reporters have been dead had you shit papers not PROMOTED LIES and WAR FEVER?!
America's MSM is JUST AS RESPONSIBLE for these Iraqi deaths as George Bush is!!!!
Think this would be a front-page story if it was an American reporter shot dead, readers?
Probably not; it would only embarrass Bush, and the MSM papers appear more intent on shoveling lies than reporting the truths!]
"Two years ago, murder became the leading cause of journalist deaths in Iraq, overtaking crossfire," said Joel Campagna, the Middle East project coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. "That's a trend that has continued to this day, and the overwhelming number of victims are Iraqi journalists."
Before Sunday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists had tallied 118 reporter deaths in Iraq since the United States invasion in 2003. Of those, roughly 85 percent were Iraqis. In recent months, several major news organizations, including ABC, Reuters, The New York Times and CBS all had lost Iraqi correspondents.
Both of the other attacks on Iraqi journalists Sunday happened north of Baghdad. Near Hawija, Ziyad Tareq Ahmed, a reporter for the Iraqi Sahrin newspaper in Tikrit, was ambushed by gunmen on a highway while traveling with two relatives. All three were killed.
Later in the evening, three reporters for the Watan newspaper were ambushed and killed by gunmen southwest of Kirkuk, according to Colonel Yakar Mohammed of the Kirkuk police. They had just accompanied an Iraqi politician to an airport and were on their way back when they were intercepted. In Iraq's worst day for reporter deaths, six journalists and five support staff members were killed a year ago when gunmen attacked the Al Shaabiya television station in Baghdad."
Yeah, but security is getting better in Iraq because of the surge!
Are you TIRED of the LIES yet, readers?
I am also sick of AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM and the SHIT MSM papers, too!!!!
