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I think it's important to distinguish between journalists who work in dangerous zones and get killed by accident vs intentional killings, usually to suppress th

I think it's important to distinguish between journalists who work in dangerous zones and get killed by accident vs intentional killings, usually to suppress the press. There isn't much you can do about the former but the latter is really dangerous and very tempting for authoritarians and others who want to stay in the shadows.

ryanmercer 7y ago
>I think it's important to distinguish between journalists who work in dangerous zones and get killed by accident vs intentional killings, usually to suppress the press. Which I mentioned in my comment. The site lets you filter (for motive confirmed), 861 of the 1342 motive-confirmed were flat out murdered with 301 killed in crossfire and 172 on 'dangerous assignments'. That's 64% and I imagine the remaining unconfirmed motive ones are a similar percentage. Even if it was 1%, that is 1% too many.