WaPo Editor: Reporter's Death Won't Affect Iraq Coverage

Editor & Publisher:

The death Sunday of journalist Salih Saif Aldin, the first Washington Post reporter killed in Iraq, will not spark a shift in the paper's Iraq coverage or an increase in security measures, says Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., who contends that the paper has always sought as much protection for reporters there as possible.

"We will continue to do what we have been doing, cover the news and take as much care as we can," he said. "We don't want anyone unnecessarily risking themselves for a story. As you can tell by the number of people who have lost their lives, it is a dangerous place."

He conceded that Aldin regularly took risks for assignments and had discussed their dangers with others in the bureau. He also said the paper often relies on the Iraqis on staff there to assess dangers.

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Comments

[AurigaRa]

my condolences to the reporter's family.


Why is the Post so insistent on covering the war and endangering employees lives when they don't tell us the truth anymore than Fox News?
Lives might actually be worth it if were willing to report the whole truth and nothing but.

[HatingTheGame]

"He conceded that Aldin regularly took risks for assignments and had discussed their dangers with others in the bureau. He also said the paper often relies on the Iraqis on staff there to assess dangers."

Read: Yeah, we send out these poor, strapped for cash, Iraqis to go out and take the bullets, bite the bombs, and get killed to assess these dangers. It works pretty good. So far we havn't lost any white folk Amerikkans.

[HatingTheGame]

"WaPo Editor: Reporter's Death Won't Affect Iraq Coverage"

"Yeah, we'll still be the complicit, sack o' shit MSM enablers of this entire criminal enterprise. And you can take that to the bank (we sure as hell do)!"

[realitytrumpsbull]

How about impeachment coverage? You know, the
process by which Pelosi(for better or worse)
gets dumped into the Big Chair for a year,
the military gets brought back from the
middle east, that kind of stuff? Hold your
breath...