got anything to back up what your saying? the journalists that go to combat zones aren't the weathergirls you know! and it also pays to remember that not all combat journalists are embedded in the "big green machine" (IMHO the single WORST thing to happen to combat journalism)

many pay the ultimate price for their passion to make the world aware of the horrors of war...just think, without responsible Journalists we may not have found out about Darfour so quickly.

lets make a destinction here for clarity.


there are "reporters" and there are "journalists".
in most cases journalists hold themselves to a higher professional standard than reporters...they research the stories, reporters are often nothing much more than a pretty face/voice to get the news from.

Some reporters call themselves Journalists and fabricate the truth to their own means.

I am not saying that they are all bad, I am just saying that many of them need to go through the same credentialling process to be deployed with us overseas so that we do not have to worry about them.

I did see that some suggested that you should shoot to wound, what a twit. Now just what would happen if you shot and wounded a suicide bomber, he would just wait till you are close enough and detonate his bomb killing you and any one else close by. In the forces you don't play about, if a person is a threat and they don't respond to your challenge then you shoot to kill, hesitate and you and your mates are history.