Here and Here for sources that back up the claims made in this tweet. Additional source for backing up the number of journalists killed in the Vietnam war

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The WWII number is ridiculous - are they saying that among the millions of civilians that died, there were only 69 journalists?

    The Vietnam number isn’t right either - it counts only journalists on the American side.

    Generally when you see someone claim that anything is worse than WWII, they’re not telling the truth. Even the Hamas attack wasn’t as bad as a normal day during that war.

    • mhague@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Journalists being killed almost certainly refers to journalists actively reporting on the war, embedded in units, the ones with passes. They are actively linked to orgs so when they die they’re accounted for as a killed journalist.

      I think including every single death of a civilian who happened to be a journalist but wasn’t working as one would be too literal an interpretation.