Iraqi Or Not, Journalists Get Shot
Or locked up. The circumstances under which they are detained are very questionable and their release often delayed.
I have been trying to find one overall explanation for what is happening to reporters that doesn't gag me in disgust. I try to make the assumption of a basic decency in my fellow citizens, even under the difficult circumstances of fighting a war. But, at the very least circumstantial, evidence points to the motivation for these things as being message control. I hope that isn't true.