Journalist down

This is disturbing.

PARIS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Sunday.

Since U.S. forces and its allies launched their campaign in Iraq on March 20, 2003, 66 journalists and their assistants have been killed, RSF said.

The latest casualty was a Reuters Television soundman who was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday while a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers.

This compares to the 63 who died in Vietnam over 20 years and they had real field correspondent's back then, not embeds, not to mention the independent journalists who went out with no support whatsoever.

I find the Reuter's killing especially troublesome, in light of Reuter's recent demand for an investigation into the detention of another one of its cameramen. Odd coincidence don't you think?