Worth The Fight And Worth Remembering


	Worth The Fight And Worth Remembering

Carl Lavin

1-2-2008 11:40 AM

2097 views

Carl Lavin says:

Press freedoms matter to everyone who reads news reports -- in print or on line.

Let's hope that the price paid for those freedoms is not as terrible in 2008.

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

View the Top Clips from January 2, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/805e262e-6648-403f-97c4-603e4b3ce558/42D43809-6880-4EBC-95C9-F973D6C82A3D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.modbee.com/columnists/vasche/story/165539.html" href="http://www.modbee.com/columnists/vasche/story/165539.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.modbee.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modbee.com/columnists/vasche/story/165539.html"><P>"Working as a journalist in Iraq remains one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet," CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon wrote in his organization's report. "Members of the press are being hunted down and murdered with alarming regularity. They are abducted at gunpoint and found dead later or shot dead on the spot. Those who die are nearly always Iraqi and many work for international news agencies. These journalists gave their lives so that all of us could be informed about what is happening in Iraq." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modbee.com/columnists/vasche/story/165539.html"><P>Africa was the second deadliest region for journalists in 2007, with seven of the 10 deaths occurring in Somalia. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modbee.com/columnists/vasche/story/165539.html"><P>Learning about the murdered, jailed and missing journalists on the Committee to Protect Journalists site -- <A href="http://www.cpj.org/" target="_blank">www.cpj.org</A> -- gave me a fresh appreciation for the freedom of the press we enjoy here in the United States.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.modbee.com/columnists/vasche/story/165539.html"><P>And it made me resolve not to take that or any other freedom for granted in 2008.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/42D43809-6880-4EBC-95C9-F973D6C82A3D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from Carl Lavin

Today's Top Clips