In the news today, just why it can actually be quite a hard life.
Apart from having to report all the interesting carnage in Gaza from miles away in a field, our intrepid searchers for truth have.
A Sunday Times photographer has been beaten up and punched repeatedly in the face by the wife of President Robert Mugabe.Grace Mugabe, 43, known as the First Shopper of Zimbabwe, flew into a rage when she was spotted last week leaving the exclusive Shangri-La hotel in Hong Kong. She has been staying there with her entourage at a cost of £2,000 a day while her country endures poverty, hunger and disease.Holding a Jimmy Choo-style bag estimated to be worth at least £2,000, and hiding behind Cavalli rhine-stone-framed glasses with a red cashmere shawl over her head, she ordered her bodyguard to attack the photographer, Richard Jones.
http://www.greatindaba.com/...
Like her dear Robert, she really can be quite nasty, oh, and she doesn't like this photographer much either.
Australian writer Harry Nicolaides has been sentenced to three years in a Thai jail for insulting the monarchy.
Nicolaides wrote a novel four years ago, which contained a brief passage referring to an unnamed crown prince. It sold just seven copies.
He admitted the charge of insulting the royal family, but said he was unaware he was committing an offence.
Thailand's monarchy is sheltered from public debate by some of the world's most stringent "lese-majeste" laws.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
3 years for seven copies and he didn't even name them and that was half what they would have given him if he had not confessed.
I can hear Bush gnashing his teeth on his way back to Crawford Dallas.
It really isn't a good time to be a reporter, embeded with the military, shut out from the years story, assaulted by a dictators wife and jailed for insulting a King.
No wonder they flock to bars.
Please tip reporters wisely
UPDATE:
Confirmed
CPJ research indicates that the following individuals have been killed in 2008 because of their work as journalists. They either died in the line of duty or were deliberately targeted for assassination because of their reporting or their affiliation with a news organization.Click on update for the list
Plus the post by theRoaringGirl in the comments