The Serious Issue of Journalists MurderingEssay Preview: The Serious Issue of Journalists MurderingReport this essayJasonProfessorENGL 10221 Feb 2011The Serious Issue of Journalists MurderingAccording to Frank Smyth, author of “Murdering with Impunity”, many journalists were killed in innocence and no one responsible for the killing.Frank Smyth states that most journalists were killed on the job. Some journalists working in war zones were killed not because of firefight or attack but by individual murdered. He gives an example that Atwar Bahjar who was a journalist in Iraqi and reports for Al-Jazeera was killed by armed men attack. Frank Smyth also states that “the killing of local journalists is most common.” Such as Valentin Valdes de Saltillo, Ghulam Sindbu Hyderabad, etc, who were local journalists and being killed after their report. Therefore, most journalists were killed in their jobs and no one even remember their names.
• Article #8221, “Murdering in Journalism” (November 27, 2001);”by Frank Smyth. (This author has a PhD in Crime Science at Texas A&M University; is a member of the American Psychological Association.) • Article #8222, “Murdering with Impunity”, by Frank Smyth. (On this writer:I’m writing this article because it helps me to identify cases where journalists were murdered with shame, and thus the reporter’s guilt-free status as the subject of this article is not a good indicator that he or she was murdered in a criminal way. To do that just says something about his “good character” or “good intentions”.) The most frequently discussed case where I found the killer and the case didn’t end there. Frank mentions a case in which the killer killed the local journalists.The reason I started this article is because I am an experienced journalist and I can share my experience with some local journalists who also suffered with the same. The case began in 1989 and I read a lot of articles about local journalists when I was at Yale University. I researched the case for some time, and I wanted to find more information about myself as a local reporter.I realized that this was my only time in writing about what happened in this case, and by some of my most popular sources, this article would work. However, I also have no idea how many other local journalists I met from the same area of the country in my investigations. I would like to share this information as a result. I will share this information with my readers and in return, I will provide some insight into why some journalists were murdered and why other journalist have done the same.I am not trying to say to stop reporting on cases of murder. There are a variety of reasons for a police officer to have murdered a local journalist.The first and most obvious reason for a police officer killing a local journalist is because of the fact that he was a citizen. In order for a police officer to do this, some government government or military forces have to be involved and he (or she) is going to get arrested for it. As a result, he may get arrested for something he has never done in his life.As an investigative journalist I have no problem with murder and have never even attempted to kill myself. I only think of the fact that a journalist is so important on a daily basis of not being killed. As an ethical person I would have very little problem with the use of force against me that I would not use against someone I am involved with, or possibly my family if they don’t care.However, I will say something very similar about journalists killing their own people. Journalists, in addition to being the most important journalists to many countries, they are one of the most violent, even in the US. It is this fact that allows for my view to stand. I will argue that while journalists are being murdered by police or military, on the other hand, you don’t need to kill other journalists because they are doing something. You can’t kill every local journalist who is committing a crime. The only problem is that even if journalists die everyday, you can still expect to be shot or killed by the police and other military forces.There’s a reason for this. I want to share this information with my readers and in return, I would like to share with other journalists people who were killed by the same killer and why it was so. This is no accident but I do want to focus so that I can begin to explain why there is no single “right” or “wrong” way to murder journalists. All we have to do here is look at several cases. We have journalists who die
Most of the murdered journalists in Iraq and Syria, however, were not involved in the ongoing political strife in Iraq that is building in Syria, or in the ongoing conflict in Syria and it’s consequences which are a constant.Most of the journalists killed by Russian soldiers and/or bombing outside their country were also local journalists in the area that is now under US control. Most of the journalists which were murdered outside of US controls were of foreign countries or are subject to mass media coverage by local journalists, journalists who have received such attention and have received death threats from Western governments.However, since the events in Ukraine and the US, and other events taking place in the region are so sensitive and difficult to understand, many journalists who have survived will probably not be able to be blamed. There are several media entities that have a link to western power relations that are active in the same areas. However they have the power but have their power not to be seen as having the power or credibility.They are often given a lot for what the media can or cannot cover.For instance, the U.S. media was able to cover up the story that NATO had been supplying Ukraine with arms. The U.S. media’s own coverage of the Ukraine conflict with respect to the US media outlets often caused more unrest and suffering than the reporting of any coverage of Western events in the region. And this conflict is, in fact, a much more complicated and confusing story for the American public when it comes to what the American journalist was exposed to. The truth will not be well understood until it has been seen. It will be a huge and important challenge to understand it all.I would like to discuss on topic the issues presented by this article, and how I view the issue from my side.In order to understand the importance of the conflict and the potential of what is done to protect the innocent victims of journalists being murdered in front of public view, I would want to know a few things before reading this article. First, why are people dying? This is not a question raised by any single person or movement. These are all internal and external factors. Therefore I believe there are various motives that can be taken to justify killing and for that reason I want to know the specific motives of these people or movements, because I see this and also see the fact that these people have taken the lives of many others in the past decade.In general I look at the question as if it is a matter of “Which political candidate you are running” when many people (usually men, women) do not speak about how they are choosing to make their political choices. This includes, for instance, voters, pundits, news commentators, judges and politicians. As we all agree that if we ask all of us whether you want different things to happen during the next 12 months the answers that emerge will not necessarily match up to the political issues. But here is a common question that usually arises in discussing this type of question as it relates to the lives of journalists and other non-journalists. The question is, does killing journalists result in greater political power, even if these deaths don’t directly result in a greater political gain? Is killing journalistic journalism the best, or even the best case? I don’t know. I am sure many of you think that these deaths will not be as huge as it might seem if we wanted to, particularly if there was violence or unrest in Kiev, as we know the situation could be like that if people could not express their political beliefs. That is certainly not the way it was in the 1950s and 60s. The death of many journalists in the course of their reporting probably resulted in increased political power in an independent Ukraine that is now much more polarized compared to previous
Most of the murdered journalists in Iraq and Syria, however, were not involved in the ongoing political strife in Iraq that is building in Syria, or in the ongoing conflict in Syria and it’s consequences which are a constant.Most of the journalists killed by Russian soldiers and/or bombing outside their country were also local journalists in the area that is now under US control. Most of the journalists which were murdered outside of US controls were of foreign countries or are subject to mass media coverage by local journalists, journalists who have received such attention and have received death threats from Western governments.However, since the events in Ukraine and the US, and other events taking place in the region are so sensitive and difficult to understand, many journalists who have survived will probably not be able to be blamed. There are several media entities that have a link to western power relations that are active in the same areas. However they have the power but have their power not to be seen as having the power or credibility.They are often given a lot for what the media can or cannot cover.For instance, the U.S. media was able to cover up the story that NATO had been supplying Ukraine with arms. The U.S. media’s own coverage of the Ukraine conflict with respect to the US media outlets often caused more unrest and suffering than the reporting of any coverage of Western events in the region. And this conflict is, in fact, a much more complicated and confusing story for the American public when it comes to what the American journalist was exposed to. The truth will not be well understood until it has been seen. It will be a huge and important challenge to understand it all.I would like to discuss on topic the issues presented by this article, and how I view the issue from my side.In order to understand the importance of the conflict and the potential of what is done to protect the innocent victims of journalists being murdered in front of public view, I would want to know a few things before reading this article. First, why are people dying? This is not a question raised by any single person or movement. These are all internal and external factors. Therefore I believe there are various motives that can be taken to justify killing and for that reason I want to know the specific motives of these people or movements, because I see this and also see the fact that these people have taken the lives of many others in the past decade.In general I look at the question as if it is a matter of “Which political candidate you are running” when many people (usually men, women) do not speak about how they are choosing to make their political choices. This includes, for instance, voters, pundits, news commentators, judges and politicians. As we all agree that if we ask all of us whether you want different things to happen during the next 12 months the answers that emerge will not necessarily match up to the political issues. But here is a common question that usually arises in discussing this type of question as it relates to the lives of journalists and other non-journalists. The question is, does killing journalists result in greater political power, even if these deaths don’t directly result in a greater political gain? Is killing journalistic journalism the best, or even the best case? I don’t know. I am sure many of you think that these deaths will not be as huge as it might seem if we wanted to, particularly if there was violence or unrest in Kiev, as we know the situation could be like that if people could not express their political beliefs. That is certainly not the way it was in the 1950s and 60s. The death of many journalists in the course of their reporting probably resulted in increased political power in an independent Ukraine that is now much more polarized compared to previous
Most of the murdered journalists in Iraq and Syria, however, were not involved in the ongoing political strife in Iraq that is building in Syria, or in the ongoing conflict in Syria and it’s consequences which are a constant.Most of the journalists killed by Russian soldiers and/or bombing outside their country were also local journalists in the area that is now under US control. Most of the journalists which were murdered outside of US controls were of foreign countries or are subject to mass media coverage by local journalists, journalists who have received such attention and have received death threats from Western governments.However, since the events in Ukraine and the US, and other events taking place in the region are so sensitive and difficult to understand, many journalists who have survived will probably not be able to be blamed. There are several media entities that have a link to western power relations that are active in the same areas. However they have the power but have their power not to be seen as having the power or credibility.They are often given a lot for what the media can or cannot cover.For instance, the U.S. media was able to cover up the story that NATO had been supplying Ukraine with arms. The U.S. media’s own coverage of the Ukraine conflict with respect to the US media outlets often caused more unrest and suffering than the reporting of any coverage of Western events in the region. And this conflict is, in fact, a much more complicated and confusing story for the American public when it comes to what the American journalist was exposed to. The truth will not be well understood until it has been seen. It will be a huge and important challenge to understand it all.I would like to discuss on topic the issues presented by this article, and how I view the issue from my side.In order to understand the importance of the conflict and the potential of what is done to protect the innocent victims of journalists being murdered in front of public view, I would want to know a few things before reading this article. First, why are people dying? This is not a question raised by any single person or movement. These are all internal and external factors. Therefore I believe there are various motives that can be taken to justify killing and for that reason I want to know the specific motives of these people or movements, because I see this and also see the fact that these people have taken the lives of many others in the past decade.In general I look at the question as if it is a matter of “Which political candidate you are running” when many people (usually men, women) do not speak about how they are choosing to make their political choices. This includes, for instance, voters, pundits, news commentators, judges and politicians. As we all agree that if we ask all of us whether you want different things to happen during the next 12 months the answers that emerge will not necessarily match up to the political issues. But here is a common question that usually arises in discussing this type of question as it relates to the lives of journalists and other non-journalists. The question is, does killing journalists result in greater political power, even if these deaths don’t directly result in a greater political gain? Is killing journalistic journalism the best, or even the best case? I don’t know. I am sure many of you think that these deaths will not be as huge as it might seem if we wanted to, particularly if there was violence or unrest in Kiev, as we know the situation could be like that if people could not express their political beliefs. That is certainly not the way it was in the 1950s and 60s. The death of many journalists in the course of their reporting probably resulted in increased political power in an independent Ukraine that is now much more polarized compared to previous
There are many unsolved crimes about killing journalists. Such as the case “the murder of Maria Jose Bravo”, the journalist Jean Helene was shot by a police officer when he was waiting to interview an opposition activist. Such case remains unsolved, because people doubt how to judge a person who is a journalist or not. Besides, government officials kill many journalists who are anti-government political groups and movements. Actually, some journalist who fight for press freedom or human rights were be killed by government, those cases frightened other journalists and publishing house. Cases are like some restrictive nations, such as China and Iran, who jailer of journalists.
There are many journalists are not being murdered but being shot. Frank Smyth point out that, murdering is very different from shot, when in murder no one doubt about the killing but the problem is who is murder? However, in shot everyone knows who is killer but problem is that justified? A well-known case is a group of journalists who are working for the TV channel HBO, they were shot by Israeli army even they claimed they are journalists. Therefore, journalists are never has the protection as they should have, even they contribute a lot for presses and governments update news.
All of those unsolved journalists murdering cases indicates that people should aware of this issue and gives journalists respects and protections. The global press freedom groups state that presses should indentify which journalists have right to report certain cases and journalists should be licensed according to political criteria. So, journalists can be special from normal citizens. However, those ideas cant stop the killing of journalists, as some nations restrict press freedom and no penalty about jailer journalists. So, Frank Smyth holds the idea that the first step