More journalists have been killed in Iraq than were killed in Vietnam

[fricasseed_gourmet_rat]

Since U.S. forces and its allies launched their campaign in Iraq on March 20, 2003, 66 journalists and their assistants have been killed, RSF said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/28/iraq.journalists.reut/index.html

[FloridaPat]

1. Mostly by US troops. Gee, I wonder why. I thought * wanted the truth

about Iraq on the newswires.

[DIKB]

3. I can't help but feel that they have

been targetted INTENTIONALLY. How long before a soldier comes forward and admits this ?

[NNN0LHI]

2. Must be due to all them "smart" bombs n/t

[NVMojo]

4. somewhere, at the WH, is a directive for this ...I'm sure Rove wrote it.

Who else believes in not only beating the enemy but destroying them?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082805X.shtml

[Imagevision]

5. Silence the message and the messenger - you are so right!

current embedded reporters were hand picked by the pentagon.



http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[wli]

6. assassination orders from the top, no doubt n/t

[usregimechange]

7. kicked and nominated

[VegasWolf]

8. Dead men tell no tales!! nt

[Shipwack]

9. I like a good evil regime story as much as the next guy, but...

How does this work out percentage wise?

Is it 66 Iraq journalists out of 10,000 vs 63 Vietnam journalists out of a hundred (just pulling numbers out of the air to illustrate the question)? Then again, Vietnam's toll was over many years, vice two years for Iraq.

I've done a little research trying to find an answer, and the only hard number I can come up with is 18 journalists for just the major networks... which is not a useful number.

Searching Jeeves did pull up this tidbit:
"A chief news executive at CNN, Eason Jordan, has placed himself in the center of another controversy. Jordan told an audience at the World Economic Forum (search) in Switzerland last month that the U.S. military may be targeting journalists in Iraq."

From Fox news, of all places....