Reply #2: Murdered vs "crossfire"

[chill_wind]

This site keeps lots of data: http://www.cpj.org/

This much seems to destroy any popular media myth that most are killed in weapons crossfire:

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.


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.

http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed_archives/stats.html

as cited here:


Journalists Who Lie, Journalists Who Die
A veteran journalist assesses the international trend of journalists targeted for their truth-telling against a backdrop of recent fraud in American newsrooms.

By Betty Medsger
April 26, 2004

http://foi.missouri.edu/mediacredibility/jwholie.html