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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: JOURNALISTS IN THE CROSSHAIRS.... |
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I am posting info. from the Committee to Protect Journalists and their statistics regarding the deaths of journalists around the world.......
www.cpj.org
When will we see the first journalist casualties from Lebanon or have we already?????
One wonders why they do it? This drive for the truth. Not exactly the kind of journalism that sits in a chair and writes opinion pieces. The real thing and it is their words we should follow. Not the armchair types that get all the paper time....read their small print, in the smaller articles and you can actually find out what is going on in the world. So many other journalists are just statesmen, people following the leaders of X, Y or Z country.....
Horrible in any case, how honourably these men and women die. Look how Iraq has become a killing field also....
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The Committee to Protect Journalists compiles details about journalists killed in the line of duty worldwide, issuing annual reports in January. The number of journalists killed each year�along with the locations and the circumstances�is the most widely cited barometer of press freedom.
� Details about every journalist killed on duty since 1992 can be found by following the links on this page.
� CPJ also compiles a statistical picture of the past decade to provide context and perspective. This data, updated each year, describes who is being killed and where. Here are some key data:
DEADLIEST COUNTRIES
1996-2005
Iraq: 60
Colombia: 28
Philippines: 26
Russia: 23
Sierra Leone: 16
India: 15
Bangladesh: 12
Serbia and Montenegro: 10
Afghanistan: 10
Mexico: 9
Algeria: 9
Brazil: 9
DEATHS BY YEAR
2005: 47
2004: 57
2003: 40
2002: 21
2001: 37
2000: 24
1999: 36
1998: 24
1997: 26
1996: 26
DECADE TOTAL: 338
DEMOGRAPHIC TRAITS
1996-2005
Female journalists: 19
Photographers and camera operators: 67
Radio journalists: 62
U.S. journalists: 9
DEATHS BY CIRCUMSTANCE
1996-2005
Murder: 238 (70.4 percent)
Crossfire in war: 67 (19.8 percent)
Reporting in other dangerous circumstances: 33 (9.8 percent) *
* Includes such things as street demonstrations and catastrophes.
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MURDER'S BACK STORY
1996-2005
Murders with impunity: 202 (84.9 percent) **
Kidnapped before slain: 29 (12.2 percent)
Threatened before murdered: 61 (25.7 percent)
** Cases in which those who ordered killings have not been arrested and prosecuted.
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Methodology
CPJ applies strict journalistic standards when investigating a death. We consider a case "confirmed" only if our research confirms or strongly suggests that a journalist was killed in direct reprisal for his or her work; in crossfire; or while carrying out a dangerous assignment. We do not include journalists who are killed in accidents�such as car or plane crashes�unless the crash was caused by hostile action (for example, if a plane were shot down or a car crashed trying to avoid gunfire).
We used only confirmed cases for our statistical analysis.
If the motives are unclear, but it is possible that a journalist was killed because of his or her work, CPJ classifies the case as "unconfirmed" and continues to investigate to determine the motive for the murder. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:31 am Post subject: |
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I've for the longest time been meaning to start just such a thread.
Thanks for doing so.
The risks journalists are made to endure in "getting the story out" to the rest of the world is something most people just don't think about that much. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Someone ought to kill Jeff Rense and his supporters. Cause their business is enemy propaganda. |
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igotthisguitar
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| Someone ought to kill Jeff Rense and his supporters. Cause their business is enemy propaganda. |
My God man, your words are consistently filled with such venom & hate.
Why not try taking a happy pill? |
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flip ant
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Location: He's got high hopes!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Seriously, who gives a rat's *** about reporters? I get REAL tired of these people being propped up as heroes when they are certainly not. And, please, can we stop this nonsense about the noble "getting the story out"? They are where they are to make a name for themselves...nothing more. No, journalists do not change the world. No, journalists are not heroes. No, journalists are not any different than the rest of us, they just get in front of a camera (or behind a camera) for career advancement. NOTHING ELSE. That liberal, sappy notion of the noble journalist just makes me ill.
Mod Edit: Please watch the language! |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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flipant,
The cornerstone of our "free" world is the journlist being able to go after a story and root out the truth..............you may throw scorn at it and see it all as "career advancement" but you are dead wrong.
Without people risking their career (yes, they do, as well as their lives), we'd have precious few of the liberties and choices in our lives.
And again I say, there are many types of journalists. I qualified my post to pay tribute to those ones who go the extra mile and who ask the deep questions and who go where there may be danger.......you again bring up your subconscious "anger/hatred" by stating "these people".........
Please reflect on what you have and WHY you have it......lots of it brought to you through the efforts of people trying to get a story and caring about the truth...
DD |
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Bulsajo
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flip ant
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Location: He's got high hopes!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
flipant,
The cornerstone of our "free" world is the journlist being able to go after a story and root out the truth..............you may throw scorn at it and see it all as "career advancement" but you are dead wrong.
Without people risking their career (yes, they do, as well as their lives), we'd have precious few of the liberties and choices in our lives.
And again I say, there are many types of journalists. I qualified my post to pay tribute to those ones who go the extra mile and who ask the deep questions and who go where there may be danger.......you again bring up your subconscious "anger/hatred" by stating "these people".........
Please reflect on what you have and WHY you have it......lots of it brought to you through the efforts of people trying to get a story and caring about the truth...
DD |
The cornerstone of our "free" world? Are you kidding me? I'm not dead wrong but you live in a fantasy world (constructed by journalists mind you) if you really believe that it's anything more than career advancement.
WHY I have what I have? If you want a true cornerstone, then it's the soldiers who have truly bought our freedom with their blood not some journalist who tagged along with the ones really sticking their necks out. Are some journalists put in danger? Yes, but only because they are looking to get the anchor post not because they are interested in the truth or asking the "deep questions." And, yes, they are "these people." No anger attached, just a realistic view of a profession that likes to pat itself on the back and tell its members how brave and noble they are while trying to "change the world."
Hey, there are many people in many occupations that "go the extra mile". Plumbers, electricians, even the mailman/woman. You really ought to get over this romanticized notion of journalists. You're not in university anymore...or are you? |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I won't reply. You obviously have no idea about how "reality" is created in this world (and there is no underlying reality but our perception of it) nor the importance of journalism to a functioning democracy and the freedom of speech. We are only free so far as we are aware, informed. We are free only so long as there is a conscience, a voice of dissent and those who would say, "this is wrong, look, look." ...............
You might consider my view of the enlightenment, along with the printing press and mass education as "fantasy" . Your short sighted view is much akin to the version of the moon being made of cheese.
Why do you think the 1st amendment is called "1st" ????? I could also point you to social commentators starting from Voltaire and Montaigne up through to de Tocqueville and Hume and along to Bertrant Russell and Camus, along even to the likes of Galbraith and Chomsky to mention a few who concur....... You are utterly without a leg to stand on with your disparaging arguement.
Please read.....or to quote Huxley from Brave New World......(a book about | |
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