Reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo of Italy's La Repubblica newspaper has been freed by the Taliban after suffering a fortnight's captivity.
We are relieved to hear that Signor Mastrogiacomo has reached safety and we hope that his ordeal will have no long-term effects, but this episode clearly demonstrates that it is no longer acceptable to put our brave journalist men and women at such risks. Year after pointless year, the news services keep sending reporters to Afghanistan and Iraq where they hazard life and limb, yet these wars continue to go on and on despite their best efforts.
It is time for this folly to end.
We call on the news services to bring our children home and stop this senseless coverage. We say, no blood for news print.
We support the reporters!
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Up until, "no blood for news print", I would have bet my tuition you lifted this from an LA Times editorial.
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