Journalist Steven Vincent killed in Iraq
New York Journalist Steven Vincent was shot dead in Basra, Iraq yesterday, four days after the New York Times ran an opinion piece he wrote criticising the rise of Shi’ite Islamic fundamentalism in the city. He and his translator, Nouriya Ita’is, were abducted, bound and shot. Ita’is is in serious condition.
This horrific event occured on the heels of this Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” which discussed the phenomenon of “Iraq Fatigue” wherein the “drumbeat of more bombs, more deaths, more injuries, more of the same” in Iraq has resulted in a wearying of the news media and their audience, creating a situation where the deaths are reduced to “news by the numbers” but otherwise are no longer so newsworthy.
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