One of the strange things about journalism is that people are willing to die doing it. That is not true of the media. That is insanity. Sander didn't want to die, and he did not take foolish risks. But he knew danger, and what he was doing when he got on that motorbike.
Good people are willing to risk death doing honest journalism.
But the media is now willing to put honest journalism at risk for the sake of its commercial imperative. There is something morally obscene about this, and it has not gone unnoticed. Ann Cooper from the Committee to Protect Journalists is here. This noble organization, as needed as any I know, sponsors a dinner in New York every year, to honor its heroes and fallen colleagues. Three years ago, Ted Koppel of ABC News addressed the crowd, and told of a bitter irony.