Journalists are a naive and idealistic lot
back in the day, it was the brave newsmen from the war zones that won americans' heart, and ended up in the anchor chair on national nightly news. that's all well and good.
Today it's not like that. Today it's all companies using suck-up tools with perfect teeth and hairplug (and/or beauty contest winners) that end up being anchors.
Fifty years ago, anchors would be bald and fat, didn't matter- they were CREDIBLE. Today, they're all just smily, happy script-readers. Look at the lineup of all the national news - almost NONE of them were war zone correspondents. THey're lifetime tv and radio guys. And when they DO their "reporting" from war zones, it's inside the green zones in front of a green screen - they don't run thru streets dodging bullets anymore. "embedded" reporters LOL!
I guess everyone has something to dream of... but living in Syria in a year snooping around... whew!
Oh, and all this talk of "It's an act of war" - I dunno... if an iraqi reporter was killed by some idiot in Texas, and Iraq decided we were at war and started blowing up US cities... well, you woudln't agree with that, right?