The war in Iraq has killed over 4,000 soldiers and tens of thousans of Iraqis, journalist are also participants because they two are hunted down by insurgents out to influence US opinion and intimidate Iraqi journalist. Iraq has been the most dangerous war for journalist in the last century, whos close to 130 killed.According to http/www.newsvine.com Human Rights Watch raised concerns about a proposed regulation that would have required media outlets to submit names of all staff to the quasi-governmental commission, saying that doing so could place their lives in danger. That plan, however, appears to have been eliminated from the final guidelines.
Despite their courage under fire, reporters in Iraq must take extreme precautions in how and where they travel. This limits the selection of topics, often leaving an unintended bias coverage.
In a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center of journalists who worked in Iraq, more than a third said their poorest coverage was in the war's impact on Iraqi civilians. And in a story this week in the Los Angeles Times, a reporter wrote that because of "fears and the inefficiency" of getting around Baghdad, "good news" stories evaporated "before I could tell them." He had to file "mostly 'bad news' stories.
According to http/www.wikipedia.com at the start of the war in Iraq media coverage was said to be contreversial because it was bias and said to be propaganda. Al Jazeera boadcast may scenes of ivilian casualties. Saddam Huesseins son oversaw ove a dozen newspapers, sat on several editorial boards and ran the most popular television staton.