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  •  I have a theory... (none / 0)

    During Vietnam, journalists were working joes, telling a story.  It served the interests of the North Vietnamese to not target reporters because of their reputation for telling the truth regarding casualty numbers, etc.  Now "journalists" are international celebrities with "access" to the White House, bent on telling the Bush misinformation.  It better serves this enemy to target celebrities for the news value of killing them, and preventing them from spreading Bush propaganda.

    Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. - OWH

    by blockbuster on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 12:06:27 PM PDT

    •  I think the more likely theory (none / 0)

      is that there are more journalists in dangerous places in Iraq than there were in Vietnam.  Back then there were only three television networks.  Travel to Asia was expensive.

      Also, Vietnam had some semblence of front lines.  Iraq has a few blocks of one city called a green zone and the rest is basically a low intensity battlefield.  Getting to Iraq has been much easier.  And there are a lot more journalistic enterprises in the market now.  

      "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" -- Voltaire

      by ohwilleke on Mon Aug 29, 2005 at 12:17:03 PM PDT

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