Context
At the time, CBS President Sean McManus said Iraq was "the most dangerous place on Earth right now."
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, an international press freedom organization, said in reaction, "The security situation is becoming more and more alarming for the press in Iraq. Although better protected, embedded journalists are not completely isolated from the dangers. A total of 96 journalists and media assistants (22 of them foreigners) have been killed since the start of the war. Only six of them were embedded with the US-led coalition forces."
The New York-based NGO Committee to Protect Journalists, reiterated their Parisian counterpart, "The news profession has lost nearly 100 people in this devastating war -- 71 journalists and 26 support staffers. Dozens more have been injured or kidnapped in one of the most dangerous conflicts that journalists have ever covered."
Reporters Without Borders noted that the Iraq War had resulted in the largest numbers of killed journalists since World War II.
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