I saw a small segment of the news the other day about a cameraman who’d been shot by US troops because they thought he was carrying an RPG. Never mind that the cameramen had been invited to the area.
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything more about this, or if it had been quietly buried? The US troops might get a reputation if this kind of stuff keeps going on, probably unfairly.
I heard about it a while ago - this is old (a week or so old) news 
The problem is that things like this will happen unfortunately. If I were in a situation where a foreign, shoulder-held object was pointed at my caravan, I am not sure if I would have reacted much differently.
The camera people know the risk, and sometimes those “headline grabbing” video clips can be deadly 
I agree whole-heartedly with kirupa. There’s a larger threat now about shoulder launched missiles being distributed to terrorists and other anti-american “forces” and I would assume, from a distance, that a camera would look much like a shoulder launched missile.
That’s the dangers of having media on the front lines, and like kirupa said, they know that there’s a chance of death going into these hot spots, yet they still go
[s=jayhan]Of course - for example, nobody really KNOWS that you exist. You could merely be another of a new line of computer viruses that acts like a human 
Birth certificate…probably a forgery. People you have spoken to…they could be fictitious people or viruses themselves. You can’t prove to me you exist Phil :)[/s]
EDIT: Added sarcasm tags.
Conspiracy?! … Yeah, I’m sure the US military said, “hey look, there’s a cameraman over there - let’s blow him up.”
You may not agree with the war going on there, you might not like G-dub being president, you might not like Bush at all - but you can’t honestly think that the military intended to kill that cameraman.
In war mistakes are made, bottom line.
I dunno, maybe the soldeir has been molested by a camera when he was a kid
Obviously, I doubt the US is trying to shoot journalists. But I agree with Kirupa. It’s certainly a tragedy, but it’s the risk of pointing gun shaped objects at armed soldiers in a war situation.
On another line of thought: too bad they didn’t hit a Hollywood paparazzi. There are already too many of those.
I agree with Yates … I’d like to see some snipers take out the paparazzi every now and then. That’s not photojournalism, that’s plain sleazy.
I cannot respect someone who gets paid money to take pictures of someone’s private life without their permission. I can only imagine how much it must piss off Holywood actors with them around all the time
if the camera man was shooting, they’re allowed to shoot back 
hahaha - good one Sen
if the camera man was shooting, they’re allowed to shoot back
Who’s “they”, the celebrities? 
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