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Sixty-two journalists killed in 2000
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Some 62 journalists and media staff have been killed so far in 2000, many of them after exposing corruption or expressing political dissent, the International Federation of Journalists said.
In its annual tally of journalists killed in the course of their work, the Brussels- based IFJ -- the world's largest journalists' organisation -- reported killings in Sierra Leone, Spain, Russia, Pakistan, Mozambique and Colombia.
"The death toll speaks for itself -- journalists risk their lives daily for expressing independent opinions and exposing wrongdoing," IFJ General Secretary Aidan White said in a statement.
Journalists killed in war zones included veteran Reuters reporter Kurt Schork and Miguel Gil Moreno of the Associated Press, killed in May in an ambush in Sierra Leone.
Among victims of assassination were Spain's Jose Luis Lopez de la Calle, an outspoken critic of the Basque separatist group ETA, nine journalists targeted by the paramilitary in Colombia's long-running civil conflict and Sergei Novikov, a Russian radio station owner who criticised powerful regional bosses.
The IFJ welcomed a recent decision by a number of major media organisations to adopt a Code of Conduct for Safety for their staff.
"Media must do everything they can to create safe working conditions," said the
IFJ, which has published its own safety code for journalists.
""journalists risk their lives daily for expressing independent opinions and exposing wrongdoing," IFJ General Secretary Aidan White said in a statement."
Joke of the day.
Joke of the day.
Actually that's a truthful statement. But we have very few journalists left in this country - they've been replaced by DNC flying monkeys that face no danger because they don't report on official wrongdoing (unless it's by Republicans).
Who says there's no good news anymore?
"The death toll speaks for itself -- journalists risk their lives daily for expressing independent opinions and exposing wrongdoing," IFJ General Secretary Aidan White said in a statement.
Then our journalists are safe and have nothing to worry about.
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Its like the old joke "What do call it when you have 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean...A good Start" Same holds true with journalist
I don't see any American 'journalists' who were killed in the line of duty in the United States. I do know of more than a few American 'journalists' who make 7 figure salaries, though...
Why kill 'em when you can buy them off, neh? Or when they're willing to donate their services for nominal remuneration, like Michele 'The Jackal'. ;-)
You had the same cynical reaction that I did. One wonders how many times it was not "expressing independent opinions and exposing wrongdoing," but rather lying to support an agenda, that made the media personnel targets. (I know that we should not necessarily judge foreign media by American "standards" or lack of them; but I suspect that there are at least some bad apples in every barrel.)
Having made that comment, please understand that I do not favor killing them. I am enough of a Jeffersonian that I will continue merely to debate them--if I ever find one with the guts for it.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
62 dead journalists in 2000?
Just as the lawyer jokes go: it's a good start.
Joke of the day.
Hey, Clymer, the only reason we have the sh@thead journalists we have here is that the ones with courage who long to find the truth end up dead.
Let's nominate a few for 2001. Does Whorealdo count as a journalist? By the way, did Nora O'Donnell kill herself as she promised if Bush won?
Most of our journalists are weakling, wussy statists that only know how to run their mouths.
Heroism to them was carrying the ho-chi-min flag down 5th Ave in the good ol' days.
What? Didn't Castro dutifully report his numbers for the tally?
Notice that Cuba is suspiciously absent. Strange, isn't it?
That's right. During the Clinton impeachment you didn't have 10 pages of the national section of every major newspaper delving into the clinton dirt not to mention numerous tele-magazine shows and tv news and guess what, even with a republican majority, it still didn't happen. I guess the press didn't do a good enough job pushing that to the american people for some conservatives. Of course, according to most so-called conservatives, the only good Free Press is a totally subservient one.
My gosh.. 62 journalists died ?!?
Pass the beer nuts.
Some 62 journalists and media staff have been killed so far in 2000, many of them after exposing corruption or expressing political dissent...
That would explain why the media elite in the U.S. were so afraid to report on the Clinton scandals.
Gee none were killed in Kosovo,Bosnia, Haitii, Israel or Occuppied territories. Anyone covering those hotspots. The world would sure like to know the truth.
Sixty-two journalists killed in 2000
Unfortunately, there were 6 empty seats.
Oops, I forgot the Sudan. Care to add any others.
It sounds like Journalist is The Safest Job in the World!!
What do you call the sixty-two journalists killed in 2000? -- a good start.
62 journalists killed? How many lawyers were killed? Break it down by: 1) killed by clients, 2) killed by ex-spouses, 3) general attrition. Of the lawyers killed, were any of the killers brought to trial and if so, how many killers launched a) the Twinkie defense, or b) it's time to kill a few whities defense?
That should be 63. Remember the journalist who croaked a couple of weeks ago while listening to Bush speak about the Florida recount?
Its like the old joke "What do call it when you have 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean...A good Start" Same holds true with journalist.
If a lawyer, a journalist, and a democrat are in a lifeboat that's being attacked by a shark, which one do you save?
The shark.
I am a former journalist, and still a conservative and am damn sorry to see journalists killed. Condelensces to wives, husbands, parents and children celebrating Christmas without them.
Don't check your humanity at the door over politics.
Emp
Many brave decent journalist have been killed by the worlds' tyrants. May God bless them and their families.
62 journalists and media staff have been killed so far in 2000, many of them after exposing corruption or expressing political dissent...
Many brave decent journalist have been killed by the worlds' tyrants. May God bless them and their families.
62 journalists and media staff have been killed so far in 2000, many of them after exposing corruption or expressing political dissent...
...journalists risk their lives daily for expressing independent opinions and exposing wrongdoing...
Then again they might have been killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, i.e. dumb luck. When your reporting on a war or some other conflict there's a good possibility that you're going to be in harm's way. I wonder how many of these 68 dead journalists were hit by a stray bullet, blown up by a land mine, or killed by their own stupidity rather than being hunted down and killed by someone that didn't like what they were writing?
Many brave journalist have been killed by the worlds' tyrants. May God bless them and protect their families, and keep future journalists safe.
62 journalists and media staff have been killed so far in 2000, many of them after exposing corruption or expressing political dissent...
. During the Clinton impeachment you didn't have 10 pages of the national section of every major newspaper delving into the clinton dirt
Gee, wasn't that the same media that spiked the Lewinsky story until Drudge ran with it? But that was penny-ante crap anyway compared to the real Clinton corruption. Where is the coverage of the Vince Foster matter? Systematics? Sellout of National Security to the Chicoms? Filegate? Travelgate and the false prosecution of those fired? The current e-mail investigation? Sex scandals are a fave of the media - they only affect one politician. But the media buries the real corruption.
I bet the number of dead American journalists jumped to 2,000 a few days ago, when they all got a heart attack after finding out who our next president was going to be.
"It's Bush? Gasp....aaahhhh.....gasp...call 91.....1 !!!!"
Too bad the seven figure network talking heads do not put themselves in harms way out there in flyover country, and the third world.
I have a grudging respect for those scribblers who go in harms way, no matter how they spin the story.
In my ideal world, Brokaw, Rather, (who is the other?) and Limbaugh would be in a foxhole in Bosnia, singing the praises of "nation building".
I suspect their support would be short lived.
Oh well.
Regards
J.R.
It might be nice if you think before you wish all journalists dead.
In 1976, Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, one of IRE's founding members, was called to meeting in a downtown Phoenix hotel by a source promising him information about land fraud involving organized crime. The source didn't show up. Bolles left the hotel, got into his car parked outside and turned the key. A powerful bomb ripped through the car, leaving Bolles mortally injured.blockquote off.
Over the next 10 days, doctors amputated both Bolles' legs and an arm, but could not save him.
His shocked IRE colleagues reacted in a way unprecedented and never copied since. They descended on Arizona for a massive investigation. They set out to find not Bolles' killer, but the sources of corruption so deep that a reporter could be killed in broad daylight in the middle of town. They were out to show organized crime leaders that killing a journalist would not stop reportage about them; it would increase it 100-fold.
The project was exceedingly controversial and remains so. The New York Times and The Washington Post, giants in the business, chose not to participate. Some journalists, including IRE members, disliked the idea of reporters on a crusade.
Bob Greene, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner at Newsday, led a team of volunteers from 10 newspapers and broadcast stations for five months of cooperative digging. The resulting 23-part series was recognized with a special award by Sigma Delta Chi and a host of other prizes.
A place in journalism history
July 23, 1976
Chilling words in 1976 and chilling today. That a reporter could be blown up in downtown Phoenix was an outrage. The fact that Bolles was an investigative reporter who had exposed land fraud and organized crime made his murder a cowardly act. It had to be answered by a team of reporters.
Dear IRE Member:
As you are all aware, one of our members, Don Bolles of the Arizona Republic, was killed in a bombing in June...
In his pitch to the IRE board, Newsday's Bob Greene said, at the very least, the project would expose corruption "in a community in which an investigative reporter has been murdered. The community and other like communities would reflect on what has happened and hopefully would think twice about killing reporters."
"For all of us - particularly newspapers with high investigative profiles - this is eminently self-serving. As individuals we are buying life insurance on our own reporters. If we accomplish only this, we have succeeded."
They heeded the call. Thirty-eight journalists from 28 newspapers and television stations across the country descended on Arizona. Some came sponsored by their news organizations. Others used their vacation time. Some stayed for a month or longer. Others for just a week. Working under Greene, they set out not to find Bolles' killer but to finish his work of exposing Arizona's tangled underworld. There were many characters, to be sure, but none as colorful as the late Tom Renner, Newsday's mob expert who spent most of his time undercover working "deep and dirty."
The result of their efforts was unique in the history of American Journalism and critical to the survival of IRE.
The team-produced series made its debut on March 13, 1977, amid continuing controversy. Among those publishing the series: Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The Boston Globe, The Indianapolis Star, and The Denver Post. The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson was the sole newspaper in Arizona to publish the series. Many others carried reports from the Associated Press that began on March 18, five days after the first stories started.
It soon was clear to everyone that the team had done exactly what Bolles' killers had tried to keep him from doing. This attempt at collective journalism had never happened before and has not happened since.
For IRE, the murder of Bolles - a 47-year-old husband and father - and the resulting Arizona Project brought national attention and stature. The organization was born in 1975 when a small group of reporters meeting in Reston, Va., decided they needed a way to share ideas and techniques. They made plans to host their first conference the following year in Indianapolis.
What should have been a joyous gathering was marred by the shock that one of their members had been killed. The board authorized Greene to go to Arizona to see what could be done. The rest is now history.
A project that had a 50 percent chance of success was published. A tiny organization with little money flourished to become what it is today. Thanks to those who have gone before, IRE now has an organization that is strong enough to take on today's threats to investigative reporting.
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Who were the Desert Rats? From Hillary's Lovely Legs:
I am a journalist who also investigates organized crime, politics and 'serious bad stuff'. Yep, we all know that we can get killed, but we also know that without exposure, crimes go unpunished and you get crap like we had the last 8 years.
I do blame many news directors and higher ups for watering down the news to namby pamby crap because Americans don't want to know the truth, they just want to sit around with their beer and watch football and not be bothered by ' the hard stuff'.
Yes, this thread has me cranky. I know people who have died in the line of duty. I know reporters who are biased and suck. But I would never wish them dead.
34 Posted on 12/19/2000 12:53:51 PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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To: sirgawain62???....its a start...
35 Posted on 12/19/2000 12:57:07 PST by Fedupwithit
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To: FedupwithitBold off.
36 Posted on 12/19/2000 13:03:56 PST by sirgawain
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To: Hillary's Lovely LegsHey! No fair dragging a real journalist like Bob Greene into it! ;-)
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blockquote off.
These men were heros. Many journalist are. We can thank our lucky stars for a free press, and the men and women who keep it free. And yes, I do wish there was more diversity of ideas in newsrooms, but it will happen if we fight for it...
His shocked IRE colleagues reacted in a way unprecedented and never copied since. They descended on Arizona for a massive investigation. They set out to find not Bolles' killer, but the sources of corruption so deep that a reporter could be killed in broad daylight in the middle of town. They were out to show organized crime leaders that killing a journalist would not stop reportage about them; it would increase it 100-fold.
Bob Greene, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner at Newsday, led a team of volunteers from 10 newspapers and broadcast stations for five months of cooperative digging. The resulting 23-part series was recognized with a special award by Sigma Delta Chi and a host of other prizes.
All of it was covered by the press. I read it about all in the Establishment Press. Criticism of the Commander in Chief in the Establishment Press would you believe that? Maybe the Establishment, Corporate Press is biased towards the Establishment, the Elite, rather than towards the Democrats? I can't wait for Drudge to start digging at Bush. He's no partisan, even though millions of American conservatives KNOW that he is.
Great humor here!. Like lawyers, 95% of journalists give the other 5% a bad name. too bad the article doesn't say how many of the 62 were fair, ethical journalists
All of it was covered by the press. I read it about all in the Establishment Press.
What exactly did you read? The part that we're all conspiracy freaks for thinking that Vince Foster might not have killed himself at Ft. Marcy Park? Yeah, a man can drive to the park without car keys, walk down a dirt path and not get his shoes dirty, and shoot himself in the mouth without getting blowback on his hands - but we're the freaks for asking questions. Oh, and I've seen extensive coverage in the papers about Filegate - NOT! Oh, and the part of the Starr Report that indicates that Hillary knew about Monica before she claimed on the Today Show that there was not truth to the rumor? Didn't see that in the media, we saw that here on FR.
The details we get are from the internet, NOT the NY Times or the Washington Post - and you're full of it for claiming otherwise. And it ain't just conservatives saying this - go to Progressive Review and read what Sam Smith says about the media.
Too bad some of these journalists couldn't ply their trade in this country in the last eight years. They would have really showed some courage.
I guess they were afraid of the Clinton death squads prowling around. I do remember some stories of people murdered when they were going to release a story on corruption in the Clinton administration.
Great humor here!. Like lawyers, 95% of journalists give the other 5% a bad name. too bad the article doesn't say how many of the 62 were fair, ethical journalists
if that's not a complete oxymoron...
It's hard for anyone who's been abused by left-wing bias not to silently applaud the demise of a journalist, even though we wouldn't get *any* news without them (although maybe that wouldn't be that much of a loss either, considering...)
Anyway, I'm reminded of a story from prewar Germany. The Communists were attempting to take over the German government, and there was a lot of mayhem in Bavaria. In one particular district, a reporter interviewing the local police chief said, "Did you know that there are a lot of political assasinations going on in your district?"
To which the cop replied, "Ah, yes - but far too few..."
NO journalists are killed here. NO expose is done. ALL journalists here just got the dim-bulb idea that duh it musta been dose partisan Supreme Court dudes that did us in. Duh, none of us damn smart justices ever be partisan...duh I be thinkin dat wat dey told me to dink. Yes. All extremely nice looking face plasters are also exceptionally smart. they know. they know. they know that they are not crazy. it is those 5 blasted partisan judges.
I remember a lady that was interviewed and stated on national TV that she was raped by WJC. The network first declined to publish the interview till the word got around on the internet. Most major networks and newspapers would not carry the story the next day. The network that did the interview refused to sell the tape to individuals as was their general policy for that program. In a nutshell, the story was quashed by the media. The media has given more exposure to Katherine Harris' alleged affairs with GWB and JEB than they did to this rape even though their is NO indication of any inappropriateness in the life of KH.
Sixty-two alleged journalists were killed in 2000. I say that's sixty-two down and about fourteen thousand more to go.
Sixty-two alleged journalists were killed in 2000. I say that's sixty-two down and about fourteen thousand more to go.
62 dead journalists in 2000
How many more to go??
I wonder how many US Military men have died at the hands of ignorant saps, who too stupid to think for themselves, took up arms in the defense of their own oppressive governments at the behest of the guy they saw on tv ?
Communist / Socialist propaganda yields to nothing but force. I don't wish death upon our military members or journalists, but it's an ugly world we live in, and that is the price of freedom.
Current journalist here, HLL .. and still a conservative. Thank you for your words. Lots of people who think they're being funny on this thread need to look in the mirror.
Thanks. Some things are not funny.
Hey, go easy on "Gunga Dan" Rather. I saw him wearing a camoflague suit while covering the Vietnam War. A mortar went off from his right (it was fired by our side) and good ole Dan dove for cover. It was hilarious!
is that all?
Don't Hold It All In! Let it out easy fella!
God Bless You
Thirty one killed in the stampede after Hillary's announcement.
Hey, go easy on "Gunga Dan" Rather. I saw him wearing a camoflague suit while covering the Vietnam War. A mortar went off from his right (it was fired by our side) and good ole Dan dove for cover. It was hilarious!
Dan, Dan the newsman! God Bless You, DrMike
(sniff)
Why couldn't most of them have been from ABC?
Quick BTTT!
So few?
"Don't check your humanity at the door over politics."
This isn't about politics. It is about truth.
Freegards,
How does this rank with lawyers, religious leaders, Friends of Bill, Taxi Drivers, Taxi Passengers, Bathtub Deaths etc.
Need some kind of chart to see the relevance and impact.
This is just another crybaby disruptor. We can expect more of this hit and run behavior for the next several years.
Thanks for that. Just as sex is a bit nasty if you're doing it right, journalism is dangerous -- if you're doing it right.
As a former journalist I know whereof I speak. I consider freedom of the press and the right to bear arms the most essential liberties we are blessed with. They are the underpinnings that keep free societies free. Unfortunately our society and institutions are decadent, the press among them. What we see today are not journalists but professional corporate propagandists for the most part.
We still suffer from the "Sixties Disease": the ongoing attempt to destabilize and destroy the fundamental American idea and replace it with repressive welfare state socialism. Most of today's so-called "journalists" are merely socialist enablers.
I think our boys Rather, Jennings, Cris Mathews, Andrea Mitchell, Greta Van Dykstren, Wolf Blitzed, Mica Brazinsky, Ashley Banfield, etc. need to go over to Russia and expose the Russian Mafia. Would one way plane tickets be in order?
the world's largest journalists' organisation -- reported killings in Sierra Leone, Spain, Russia, Pakistan, Mozambique and Colombia.
Maybe those foreigners know something we don't. I think liberal bias in the media would be extinct over night if they had to face real consequences!
Lenin used to call them "useful idiots"! That monicker still fits!
Maybe we could send over Dan Blather ?
Sixty-two Journalists Killed in 2000
Let's Resolve to do Better.
And this is Breaking News?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Get a clue?? You mean you missed the reports about a JEB/KH affair in mid-November? You missed the Saturday night live episode where KH was servicing GWB when AG walked in???
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