# The television industry loses a fewof its own. :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-television-industry-loses-a-fewof-its-own/167544 "2003-04-09T14:15:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-television-industry-loses-a-fewof-its-own/167544/1 "2003-04-09T14:15:12Z")
In this [CNN Story](http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/09/sprj.irq.journalists/index.html), 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. Cartooniverse