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After the alleged murder of journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq The Independent television company ITV. have started a campaign to make the death/murder of a journalist an International crime. I realise that journalists have to report the news but Mr Lloyd and his three colleagues were traveling alone ahead of the allied front line and as such have to accept responsibity for their own safety. They were not soldiers they should not have been their, why should a press card give you the right to go or do as you please in a war zone and then call for the law to be changed when it go,s horribly wrong for you?

2007-03-20 00:25:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events Media & Journalism

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Indeed if you going to do dangerous things you can't call foul when it goes **** up. He was more than happy to milk the rewards of job and he knew this could happen.

2007-03-20 00:30:21 · answer #1 · answered by Barry Von Leotard III 3 · 2 0

Seems a bit silly to me. How are the journalists any different to the normal civilians killed during the war? If nothing else, they were there out of choice.

Unfortunately, the nature of war means civilians are killed - at best it can be added to the list should the perpetrators ever get to a war tribunal.

2007-03-20 07:37:45 · answer #2 · answered by spagbolfordinner 3 · 1 0

If journalists did not go to war zones then we would end up hearing nothing but government versions.There is no alleged he was murdered the question is who by.?

2007-03-20 08:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by Ollie 7 · 2 0

The ITV reporters is a sad lost.
They believe that they were doing something noble and trying to report the truth and that all people will respect the press and not bring them into the fight.

Well we don't live in one world. Muslim terrorists don't care who they are if you are non-Muslim or easy target you are as good as dead.

It is war zone and when you go into you are going to get what you deserve.

We told not to play in traffic. Those who play in traffic get hurt whose fault is it.
The cars or the people just wondering around.

2007-03-20 08:16:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

i appreciate your thoughts which are not flawed.
television company ITV should have started a campaign to make the death/murder of a person an International crime the penaty death!

2007-03-20 13:18:48 · answer #5 · answered by jupiteress 7 · 0 0

I think it is complete non-since. It seems a lot like people in this country thinking we need different penalties for hate crimes. Murder is murder,and assault is assault when we start thinking that we need to define different levels of punishment for the murder, or assault of certain groups of people it is nothing more than one group of people believing that they are more important than everyone else.

2007-03-20 09:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by p_doell 5 · 1 0

The logic behind that is flawed.

How do you define a crime ?

At times of war there are no laws so it is impossible to enforce them, anyone can become a casualty

2007-03-20 07:29:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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