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[Ripclawe]

Read the whole thing, very interesting.

http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2004/DA_fall04/Iraq_Prothero_DA_fall04.html

Security is tenuous for everyone in Iraq, but conditions for journalists have deteriorated to the point that many major news agencies now rely on local stringers and employees for newsgathering. Among nearly every constituency here, hostility toward journalists has increased.

Journalists, by necessity, are fixated on personal security. News organizations have established themselves in compounds of private homes surrounded by blast walls, or in large hotel complexes with extensive security checkpoints. Such precautions, though not unique to the media, reflect a change from a year ago, when journalists preferred lower-profile, less-secure accommodations on the theory that it would make them less likely to be targets.

This bunker mentality has taken hold among the press corps in Iraq for a few reasons. Insurgents have attacked less-secure hotels once used by Westerners, including journalists. The U.S.-led coalition is largely indifferent to journalist safety, and, worse, Iraqi authorities are openly hostile.

 

[Brannon]

They had to expect this. On top of all the bullshit the US has done, now you have jounalists profitting from their misery. Then there's the fact that it's only good business sense for terrorists to do their deeds as close to the international camera as possible, and if the deed kills the jounalist in the process, well that's even better as the story will become front page material in that person's country more likey.

As scummy as the paparazzi are, at least they have the smarts to chase after a story when it's fully incapacitated in a mangled vehicle in some tunnel.

 

[Ripclawe]

There is a helluva disconnect between how the Press view themselves and other people view them. They actually had the balls to whine to the coalition that they should have "special" protection than what they have now. I think the coalition and the iraqis have better things to do than babysit the press.

 

[Alcibiades]

the insurgents hate them cause they're foreign...

the Iraqi's and Coalition hate them for distorting the truth...

jeez, I'm not surprised at all...

 

[Phoenix]

" I do not care if they hate us, so long as they fear us"
- Caligula

Don't necessarily believe that, but the quote seemed appropriate.

 

[Bizarro Sun Yat-sen]

You're seriously off-message here. I guess this is meant to tie into the whole liberal-bias MSM-hatred thing, but come on.

 

[iapetus]

the insurgents hate them cause they're foreign...

the Iraqi's and Coalition hate them for distorting the truth...

There isn't a rolleyes big enough...