{"id":1212,"date":"2008-07-26T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2008-07-26T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T13:07:17","slug":"how-dangerous-is-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/07\/how-dangerous-is-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"How dangerous is journalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">H<\/span>aving had occasion to put my life, rather than just my lunch, on the line for journalism, I was interested in this graph from <a href=\"http:\/\/windowonthemedia.com\/2008\/06\/journalist-a-safe-job\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Windows on the Media<\/strong><\/a> reflecting on the relative safety of journalism as a profession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windowonthemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/deathen.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Journalism deaths graph\" src=\"http:\/\/windowonthemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/deathen.gif\" class=\"aligncenter frame\" width=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, but&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Especially in the world of international news reporting, the number of people travelling on assignment is really rather small and the risks &#8211; it seems to me &#8211; really rather large. I can think of half a dozen acquaintances and friends who died in Iraq in the space of a couple years. Friends who&#8217;ve reported from Afghanistan have been kidnapped and been lucky to escape with their lives.<\/p>\n<p>These voluntary risks pale behind those involuntarily faced by journalists working in countries like Iraq, the Philippines, Russia and other places where to do one&#8217;s job with absolute integrity requires courage verging on the suicidal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had occasion to put my life, rather than just my lunch, on the line for journalism, I was interested in this graph from Windows on the Media reflecting on the relative safety of journalism as a profession. Yes, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}