Iraq War Surpasses Vietnam in Number of Reporters Killed

[thewayne]

From imdb news:
More broadcast and print journalists have been killed during the Iraq war than during the entire 20 years of the Vietnam War, according to the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders. The latest casualty, it said, was a soundman for Reuters TV News, who was shot by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, bringing to 66 the number of journalists and their assistants who have been killed since 2003. (A Reuters cameraman accompanying the soundman was wounded in the incident.) Sixty-three journalists were killed in Vietnam between 1955 and 1975.

Comments

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Christ, that's depressing...

Can we please just go home now?

[deborak]

This is just an inflammatory factoid. OF COURSE more journalists are biting it. Due to the growth of the news industry in the last 40 years there are thousands more of them IN war zones.

And in 'Nam, our hands weren't as tied by political correctness, making it a bit harder for the enemy to do their worst. These Iraq/Nam comparisons are truly apples and oranges.