AFP reports Iraq news coverage dwindles

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** IRAQ NEWS COVERAGE DWINDLES
The international spotlight on the Iraq debacle is shrinking daily, reports news agency, Agence France Presse. Tyranny of the press, in this case, is the widespread threat of violence to journalists, certain to thin out the coverage of the upcoming Iraq election. "News editors point out that correspondents in Baghdad cannot leave their hotel rooms without incurring major risks. The United States is organizing military escorts so that journalists can cover the election, but this also would restrict their freedom of action."
(AFP)
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=%2011781

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1. It's brilliant....

If we have to use the military to keep those repoters locked down we will even if we lose.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick

[G_j]

3. seasoned war reporters

have said Iraq is the most dangerous place they have ever reported from.

[leftchick]

4. This Is What Reporters and Photographers in Iraq Face...

A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi policeman survey the scene following an explosion in Baghdad, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2005. A suicide driver detonated a car bomb outside the offices of Iraq (news - web sites)'s largest Shiite political party, killing three other people, police and the U.S. military said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)





A U.S. Army soldier removes a television cameraman from the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad January 18, 2005. The suicide car bomb exploded on Tuesday at a Baghdad office of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites) (SCIRI), a party official said, in the latest attack on Shi'ites before Iraq's January 30 election. The official said there was no immediate word on casualties. REUTERS/Akram Saleh

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5. Very quiet today...

...bet all hell breaks loose on 1/21.