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Journalists Being Jailed and Kidnapped

21 November, 2007 (14:17) | freedom of speech, Iraq, journalism, law, media, opinion | By: Catherine Morgan

This is from a post at The Sideshow.

One of the most frightening and disheartening facts about the last seven years is the silence from the press about the incredible abuse real journalists have suffered at the hands of the conservative machine and its agents, at home and abroad. While writers and photographers have been thrown in jail for no logical reason, or shot in their hotels in Iraq, or kidnapped and held indefinitely by our government without legitimate cause, the only journalist to get any sympathy from the news media was Judith Miller, who helped to sell devastating lies to the American public and was jailed only when she refused to testify as a witness to a crime.

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