Attacking Journalists To Become a War Crime?

Reporters Without Borders is pushing to make attacks on journalists a war crime. Sounds great, as long as it also…

By December 15, 2013

Reporters Without Borders is pushing to make attacks on journalists a war crime.

Sounds great, as long as it also becomes a war crime for terrorists to impersonate or embed themselves among journalists.

Do you really think the UN will define who is a journalist better than say, the NY Times or the Newseum?

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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