It's OK to kill journalists

[Mottie]

"Enid Blyton's books are aimed at children" does not mean I enjoy reading Enid Blyton's books.
Why do people manage to read something between the lines thta doesn't exist?

Stop being a tunc, take a day off.

 

[Roy Bloom]

Stop being a tunc, take a day off.

I need to oppose the tunc's sily commnets all the time.

 

[Odds]

Stop being a tunc, take a day off.

Do you ever take your own advice?

 

[Mottie]

Do you ever take your own advice?

No need to. Like you, I’m perfect.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

You have every right to defend your arse.

You are totally sure there has been no provocation?

If so self defence is correct. If not, its probably inevitable, but predictable. Almost deliberate maybe ?

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Sometimes.
But posting on here is not one of those times.


Do you get paid for what you do?

I'm.in a different game to you Roy

 

[motorbiking]

Under international law, journalists don’t constitute a separate, protected class from civilians overall. However, just as it is illegal to intentionally target civilians or launch an attack that does not distinguish between military targets and civilians, it is also illegal to intentionally target journalists. Media cannot be considered military targets even when they are being employed for propaganda purposes unless they make an “effective contribution to military action” or they “incite war crimes, genocide or acts of violence,” according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Nevertheless, independent investigations have concluded that Israel has intentionally targeted journalists on multiple occasions.

Israel’s incendiary rhetoric about journalists and its attacks on journalists aren’t new developments, Weimers said. Before the latest Gaza war broke out, Israel had killed more than a dozen Palestinian and foreign media professionals since 2001, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Even Israeli reporters have been impacted by Israel’s broader crackdown on wartime dissent. For instance, Israeli reporter Israel Frey’s home was surrounded by a far-right mob after he held a vigil for Israeli and Palestinian victims of the war, forcing him and his family to go into hiding. Karhi has also threatened the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with financial penalties and canceling state subscriptions to the paper, claiming that it has printed “lying, defeatist propaganda” that is “sabotaging Israel in wartime.”

For Israel, which is increasingly losing the international war of public opinion, all of this is a means of undermining independent reporting that could further damage its image abroad. “It’s creating an environment that allows propaganda and fake news to thrive,” Weimers said.

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The fact is reporters like to go where the action is. They like to gear up in Army Fatigues, bullet proof vests etc or ride shot gun with the troops. Its probably this more than any other reason that places them in harms way

 

[Odds]

The fact is reporters like to go where the action is. They like to gear up in Army Fatigues, bullet proof vests etc or ride shot gun with the troops. Its probably this more than any other reason that places them in harms way

And nothing to do with the way Israeli troops target them. Obviously.

 

[motorbiking]

Are you suggesting they are sat on their hotel balconies when killed?

 

[Odds]

Are you suggesting they are sat on their hotel balconies when killed?

Are you saying you're that stupid?

 

[motorbiking]

70ish press dead out of 22,000 in a war zone. I wonder how many press are currently in the zone?

What do you reckon your chances of survival would be even if you wore a Ronald McDonald clown suit and entered a kill zone?

 

[Roy Bloom]

I'm.in a different game to you Roy

I sometimes think you're in a different game to everyone else.
Maybe you like playing by yourself.

 

[Roy Bloom]

The fact is reporters like to go where the action is. They like to gear up in Army Fatigues, bullet proof vests etc or ride shot gun with the troops. Its probably this more than any other reason that places them in harms way

Are you suggesting taht the press are killed by indiscriminate fire?

 

[Roy Bloom]

70ish press dead out of 22,000 in a war zone. I wonder how many press are currently in the zone?

What do you reckon your chances of survival would be even if you wore a Ronald McDonald clown suit and entered a kill zone?

No-one is allowed in nor out. So eventually there won't be any press left to report on the conduct of war.

 

[JohnD]

... people bwho didn't put themselves in harms way.....

There you are again.

Do you think it is wrong to kill unarmed civilians and children?