Journalists like Kurt Schork of Reuters and Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of The Associated Press, gunned down by rebels in Sierra Leon last year. Twenty-six journalists will be enshrined today at the Arlington, Va., Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial, as their names join the hundreds of media who died in the line of duty. According to information provided by the Newspaper Association of America, most news people die by assassination, not accident. From 1990 to 1995, the association reports, an average of 72 journalists died each year. It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons.
Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.
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