In this CNN Story, we learn that several television journalists and technicians have died during bombing in the war in Baghdad.
This is a Forum for the arts and entertainment business. I surely do not wish to co-opt it into a political forum. But I feel strongly about the deaths of these technicians, and wish to memorialize them.
War reportage is a tricky thing, as we all are learning. I respect the efforts that these people were making, and wish that their jobs had succeeded unmarred by a violent end. Operating broadcast equipment is hard work, draining and serious. They were not out in the field, but were inside of buildings- one’s mind goes for safety and I would have felt safer inside than outside, in that city at this time. They were clearly not safe enough.
My industry mourns them, and I mourn them.
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