106 journalists and media staff killed in 2011

"...failure to uphold their international obligations for the ongoing violence targeting media."
"...prevailing culture of impunity for crimes against journalists."

“It is abundantly clear that deadly violence against journalists is not just a blip due to conflicts around the world but has become a regular cycle in many countries where journalists are hunted down, targeted and murdered by the enemies of press freedom,” said the letter signed by IFJ President, Jim Boumelha.

Should all journalists and reporters be free to express their opinions or this right is reserved to those who are expressing politically correct views in Western opinion?

Al-Jazeera have been complaining for years that their journalists were targeted and murdered in both Iraq and Afghanistan by NATO troops.
We've seen a share of it.
In 1999 NATO bombed RTS TV killing 16 in deliberate attack they bragged about. Initial explanation was that it was propaganda tool for Milosevic.
And maybe it was so...
On the other hand I watched CNN at the times and if there is a single example of propaganda tool this was it. Their journalists were in Belgrade at the time, and it didn't take a cruise missile to kill them, low tech , such as knife was enough. And apparently, all that one needs to kill a journalist (according to Western standards) is to arbitrarily decide that this one or that one is a propaganda tool. Yet, they lived....

"...failure to uphold their international obligations for the ongoing violence targeting media."
"...prevailing culture of impunity for crimes against journalists."

“It is abundantly clear that deadly violence against journalists is not just a blip due to conflicts around the world but has become a regular cycle in many countries where journalists are hunted down, targeted and murdered by the enemies of press freedom,” said the letter signed by IFJ President, Jim Boumelha.

Should all journalists and reporters be free to express their opinions or this right is reserved to those who are expressing politically correct views in Western opinion?

Al-Jazeera have been complaining for years that their journalists were targeted and murdered in both Iraq and Afghanistan by NATO troops.
We've seen a share of it.
In 1999 NATO bombed RTS TV killing 16 in deliberate attack they bragged about. Initial explanation was that it was propaganda tool for Milosevic.
And maybe it was so...
On the other hand I watched CNN at the times and if there is a single example of propaganda tool this was it. Their journalists were in Belgrade at the time, and it didn't take a cruise missile to kill them, low tech , such as knife was enough. And apparently, all that one needs to kill a journalist (according to Western standards) is to arbitrarily decide that this one or that one is a propaganda tool. Yet, they lived....