Thanks for criticizing! The point of this article was to show the irrelevance of our journalists’ mourning the deaths of a Samir Kassir or an Anna Politovskaya as if they were colleagues, not to say that all reporters are safe.

In liberal democracies, as Dave Lee’s saying, journalists barely take any risk (ok, not their fault, that’s not what they’re paid for).

In some other countries, some journalists are more like fighters for the freedom of speech, working for a political ideal. I see not commonalities between the two, except for the writing articles part.

As for international reporters, as one of my j’list friend tells me, risk is part of the job and probably one of the reason they choose to go on assignment in unsafe areas.