Journalists Have a Dangerous Job

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Apparently journalism has recently been reassessed as a dangerous profession. The U.N. claims no less than 71 journalists were killed around the globe in 2009. Last year there were a whole lot of things taking place economically and politically and strife was common. So journalists were in risky locales and more were killed in 2009 than in the past 30 years that individuals have actively been tracking this pattern.

Nearly 30 of 2009's death toll took place in one massacre in an election-related ambush in the Philippines last November. To date, this is still the most horrific gathering for journalists. But the difficulty didn't come to an end at this point. Last year alone in the People's Republic of China twenty four journalists were jailed and Iran was not far behind with twenty three. The number of those in jail has now spiked to 47 in Iran. They continue to silence bloggers and other internet users.

In the world at large there were one hundred thirty-six reporters in jail at the end of 2009, relates Robert Mahoney the director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. In fact things are only growing more fatal in the Middle East and the Far East as well.

Opponents are not popular with governments. They try to do this by hacking into and sabotaging online news sites. This occurred in Tunisia when they targeted an online news site, Kalima. Iran has also tried to quiet opponents through a government crackdown. And they are also breaking into social networks in order to try to ascertain identities of both critcs and followers.
Of the 71 total deaths in 2009, 51 were murders and the other twenty four deaths continue to be under investigation. Before 2009, the largest amount of deaths per year was just sixty seven and that was back in 2007. While this may be unsafe, don’t be overly concerned, there are several benefits that accompany the post. They get to circle the world and then report and write about groundbreaking issues.

What better place for controversy and conflict than gathering the news?. That means journalists could to be with the military on the mountainside in Afghanistan, trudging along with Iranian protesters, and in China reporting about the pollution and lack of freedom in the press, or in Haiti after the earthquake, and next gathering data on the outbreak of the H1N1 virus.

The profession can be dangerous. Consider the two journalists who were imprisoned when they stepped over the border into North Korea. No one knew how long it would take to get them released but eventually it happened.
Because of the imprisonment and slayings of journalists, Mahoney wishes to see the U.N. step up and be more aggressive in relation to freedom of expression. Ultimately sovereignty lies with each country and they can almost do anything they want. Some would call that freedom?

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