Occupational hazard
March 8th, 2007 by 
Alica
I recently read this in a news summary:
“More than 1,000 journalists and their support staff have died in the past decade, with Iraq and Russia topping the list as the deadliest countries for the profession, according to a report from the News Safety Institute (Wash. Post, p.A13*; N.Y. Times, p.A7*; AP).”
Not all journalists go on assignments that put them in danger, but a lot of them do so they can document things like wars, natural disasters and other tragedies. Our founding fathers thought this was so important that they added freedom of the press to the first amendment.
A lot of people know the first amendment guarantees free speech, but did you know it actually guarantees five rights?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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