Journalists flee a bombing raid in LibyaIntense Attacks On Media In Middle East Unrest -- Yahoo News/Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Journalists have been suppressed in popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in more than 500 attacks, some of them deadly, according to a media rights watchdog.
Mohamed Abdel Dayem, program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists in the Middle East and North Africa, said the number of attacks on the media in the region since the start of the year was "unprecedented."
"This hasn't happened before, not with this intensity and not with this frequency," he said.
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My Comment: Journalists are no longer perceived as being neutral in covering war zones and political conflicts. Because of this perceived bias, they have become fair game.
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