Reply #12: I pay very close attention to every word he says. I also fear for him.

[chill_wind]

A lot, some days.

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

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most journalists who were killed were hunted down and murdered, often in direct reprisal for their reporting.

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...in more than 90 percent of the cases, those who killed journalists did so with impunity.

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




Press Freedom Archives
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


Jailings (data link)

The United States, which is holding journalists in detention centers in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rose to sixth among countries jailing journalists, just behind Uzbekistan and tied with Burma, CPJ found.


more

http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2005/imprisoned_05/imprisoned_05.html

Missing:

http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/missing_list.html