The Los Angeles Times online edition has a very interesting article called When writing truth is a crime in which Tim Rutten talks about the reaction (or lack thereof) from the American mainstream media towards the dead and kidnapping of non-american reporters in Iraq. We all have read and heard about Jill Carroll the reporter from The Christian Science Monitor who has been held hostage somewhere in Iraq since January 7th, and about B ob Woodruff and his cameraman, but…has anybody written about the three journalists (Correspondent Atwar Bahjat, 30, cameraman Khaled Mahmoud al-Falahi, 39, and engineer Adnan Khairallah, 36) killed in Samarra this past week? I just read about it for the first time in this article.
Here in Mexico, we don’t even hear much about the american journalists, much less about the journalists from other countries who have been killed (82) and injuried when trying to keep us informed…and that is a sad state of affairs. As a graduate from journalism school, I can only say that the lack of regard for colegues is one of the many things that made me get out of the journalism line and into the sysadmining gigs…computers don’t care about sysadmins either, but…we can’t expect them to.
So…why don’t we care?
PD: BTW, I found the article through Dan Gillmor’s blog
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