Start actually reporting real news, telling the truth, and not burying stories and you will get some sympathy from us.
How can a public service be a war crime ??? /s
It should be a war crime unless of course the reporter is from a conservative/republican agency
I despise laws that give preferential treatment of one group over another.
Mandatory death sentence if you kill a cop. INJUSTICE
Mandatory war crime if you kill a journalist. INJUSTICE
These liberal ideas just foster a class system that is in direct conflict with equal protection and individualism as envisioned by our Founders.
Only if journalists wear day-glo jumpsuits.
The AP president is just another "stooge" with a BAD idea that primarily makes only him feel good... as well as justifying his own existence.
And who will enforce this? Who will bring ISIS to justice?
This is a law only enforceable against someone who gives a darn, like the US. And when you consider that the jihadists used "journalists" as their spies, agents, and propagandists, when you consider that even legitimate journalists have put themselves in the thick of the fighting, such a law is not enforceable. It is just another attempt to do the impossible, which is litigate war.
If it can be litigated, it isn't war. If it is war, you can't litigate it. It just has to play itself out.
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.
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.
Well, biased journalism should be a hate crime.
Journalists lying to protect democrats should be a crime.