Posted on 03/30/2015 8:02:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The president and CEO of The Associated Press called on Monday for changes to international laws that would make it a war crime to kill journalists or take them hostage.
Gary Pruitt said a new framework is needed to protect journalists as they cover conflicts in which they are increasingly seen as targets by extremist groups. [ ]
Last year was a particularly deadly year for the APfour of the news cooperatives journalists were killed on assignment. Globally, 61 journalists were killed in the line of duty in 2014, bringing to more than 1,000 the number who have died since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. [ ]
Pruitt said existing international laws should be updated to protect journalists. He proposed creating a new protocol to the Geneva Conventions to make the killing of a journalist a specific war crime. He also suggested adapting articles of the International Criminal Court, which deals with war crimes, to specifically cover journalists.
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Journalists won’t tell American soldiers they’re walking into an ambush.
Even when they KNOW.
Journalists won’t tell U.S. soldiers because they see themselves as ‘citizens of the world’... people whose job is only to report - not to give away sources. Even when that knowledge would save the life of an American soldier.
Journalists want to be seen as people who haven’t ‘chosen sides’... Outside the ethical constructs of the United States.
Fine.
If that’s their belief - and I believe it is - they should NOT be provided ANY protection by the US military or our Government. Nothing. We can pick up the beheaded body and bring it back to the US...that’s about it. We owe that to any citizen - even an AP guy or a New York Times reporter.
Nothing more.
Lets also not forget that such a law would also extend to blatant enemy propagandists that get hired as “stringers” by our own msm in areas we engage with our military.
Journalists need a wake up call. If you are behind enemy lines and reporting on the goings on within the enemy camp, you are a spy for us and rightfully subject to arrest and execution by that enemy.
If you are within our own lines and reporting for the benefit for the enemy, you are rightfully subject to the same as above.
If you’re out and about in the wild, you take your chances.
Journalists are not “citizens of the world”. That concept has no meaning what so ever except in the minds of the truly intellectually inbred. In times of war, a journalist belongs to one side or the other. Not both.
I’m not aware of the AP employing ANY real journalists.
The way the media concentrated on destroying the morale of the US during the Iraq war (keeping and publishing daily counts the number of US casualties, reporting classified leaks, etc.), and the way they stopped all these activities once Obama became President, makes me feel absolutely nothing when they get killed. I have no sympathy to them.
Well put.
Being a shill has consequences.
Many “journalists” are really combatants — distinguished from the traditional combat arms only by their choice of weapon.
Well, biased journalism should be a hate crime.
Journalists lying to protect democrats should be a crime.
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