The number of journalists killed in Iraq is greater than the number killed in any other war in U.S. history. That includes the two WW's. The number of deaths to members of the press is somewhere between 66 and 127 depending on the source.
There are several reasonable explanations for the large number of deaths among the press:
1. There are probably more reporters on-site in Iraq than there have ever been in any other war.
2. The reporters are "imbedded" with the troops.
3. The nature of the attacks. They do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
One thing is for sure: the soldiers are not the only heroes putting their life on the line in this silly war. The journalists are literally dying to tell us the story. It is a shame that so few of us are listening.
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I had no idea that so many were killed.
I log on every day and my homepage is yahoo. The headline news so often has a bomb going off or this number of people getting killed. It's as if it's been so many days with these headlines that I've grown numb and don't read anymore.
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