Damn you, subby. This was a brand new MacBook Air.

Reporting from a warzone....always a good decision.

More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

Was wondering which pirate-based headline would be greenlit.

Got to respect people who put themselves in harm's way to ensure the world knows what's going on and can't just ignore it (although we are currently doing quite a good job of ignoring it).

Link to Ochlik's winning photo here. (new window)

Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

Sad... but she did look badass with that eyepatch.

Her death will increase global warming.

Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

fark off

I_C_Weener: Call her Plissken

I thought she'd be taller.

Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

More along the lines of "shiat's so bad even journalists are dying." At least that's my impression. Imagine if right wing media actually took up the cause of freedom and paid attention to Syria.

If only we had an organization dedicated to protecting people from crazy genocidal regimes..

I saw a picture of the lady on another news site, so this headline cracked me up and then made me feel bad.

OldManDownDRoad: Western reporter finds out that bullets can't tell if their target is a female journalist? ZOMG! Front page! Top of the broadcast! Let's paint her as the best thing since Edward R Murrow broadcast from the Blitz - even if we've never heard of her before.

To be fair, there really are a lot of people who honestly believe that refusing to take up guns renders you immune to being shot by them.

/including the leaders of the modern media
//story is for them, not for you

Treygreen13: Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

Not sure if you're the first person to go with the "Republicans don't like violence" angle but I find it remarkable in its strangeness.

It's called "rewriting history." Like Stalin and Castro did, except they never had the people in position to do it in the USA until now.

Yes?

Playing around in a war-zone may get you killed. Yes, that is correct.

Any other questions?

It's like they were using themselves as human shields.

Or maybe they felt that was the only way for the story to get more attention. YouTube videos and twitter may have been better, though.

Treygreen13: Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

Not sure if you're the first person to go with the "Republicans don't like violence" angle but I find it remarkable in its strangeness.

It's like when they suddenly were opposed to intervention when Kadaffi was taken out. "Oh no, Obama is starting a war for no reason!!!", while a few months or so earlier they were whining about Obama not getting involved in the Iran civilian uprising.

OldManDownDRoad: Let's paint her as the best thing since Edward R Murrow broadcast from the Blitz - even if we've never heard of her before.

Maybe if you would quit reading about Whitney Houston and the gorram Kardashians and pay attention, you would have heard of her. Or maybe even gone to a news site other than Fark and read her work.

Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

We know about those 7000 people because of people like her, you useless twat.

"This is Bernanrd Shaw reporting from Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad for CNN and we are looking.......JEEEZUS CHRIST was that a cruise missile !!? "

Run.....get under the desk.


good times...

Meethos: Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

We know about those 7000 people because of people like her, you useless twat.

Not to mention the 24/7 coverage of Whitney Houston. Thousands are getting killed in Syria, but it was more important that we cover a drug addict's funeral. Fark you media-except for the reporters actually covering stories like Syria.

Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

this journalist died because she willingly chose to go into this warzone and assumed enormous personal risk so that we could know about the 7000 other people that died.

She deserves recognition. Stop being a dick.

Jake Havechek: Treygreen13: Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

Not sure if you're the first person to go with the "Republicans don't like violence" angle but I find it remarkable in its strangeness.

It's like when they suddenly were opposed to intervention when Kadaffi was taken out. "Oh no, Obama is starting a war for no reason!!!", while a few months or so earlier they were whining about Obama not getting involved in the Iran civilian uprising.

And just like when Clinton was in office suddenly the Democrats want to use the military everywhere. We couldn't afford the other wars but we can afford some new ones.

SSDD

SlothB77: Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

If there is one thing we can all agree on, it is that the Republicans are preventing the democrats from pursuing military action in the Middle East.

not sure if serious...

umad: Jake Havechek: Treygreen13: Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

Not sure if you're the first person to go with the "Republicans don't like violence" angle but I find it remarkable in its strangeness.

It's like when they suddenly were opposed to intervention when Kadaffi was taken out. "Oh no, Obama is starting a war for no reason!!!", while a few months or so earlier they were whining about Obama not getting involved in the Iran civilian uprising.

And just like when Clinton was in office suddenly the Democrats want to use the military everywhere. We couldn't afford the other wars but we can afford some new ones.

SSDD

See? Dumbass comments like yours are exactly what I'm talking about.

Pert: Was wondering which pirate-based headline would be greenlit.

Got to respect people who put themselves in harm's way to ensure the world knows what's going on and can't just ignore it (although we are currently doing quite a good job of ignoring it).

Remember, 99% of the time it's fine if you slaughter your own people. Just don't kill anyone on the other side of a made-up boundary*.

*Unless you're the US, China, Russia, or other major power.

Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

So you've established yourself as an ignorant partisan hack. If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan, you realize that toppling a corrupt, evil regime is not enough. If you look at Egypt and Libya, you realize that supporting rebels against corrupt, evil dictatorships is not enough. If you look at the stable governments of the world, you realize that what all of them have in common is the supremacy of the rule of law and respect for the rule of law. Israel is stable because they have a strong constitution to which all officials and citizens adhere. Iraq, under Hussein, had no rule of law because the law was whatever Hussein's whim was on that day. Dictators not only do not follow laws, they leave no legacy of laws for their successors. Note the smooth transition of power in the U.S., in Israel, in European countries, then compare that to the upheaval that occurs in dictatorships when regime change occurs.

Historically, the U.S. was in charge of West Germany after WW II and imposed the rule of law while not ruling the country. Same in Japan. Two very successful examples of how to rebuild a nation after both the ravages of war and the devastation of life under dictatorship. The question is how to accomplish that in the Middle East. Iraq shows that we can overthrow dictatorships very easily. But we apparently lacked the will or moral courage to change the system of governance from tribal power struggles to the rule of law. I'm not sure I know the answer when dealing with religious ideologues. Sunnis and shiates do not seem to comprehend that cooperation and submission to the rule of law would allow both of them to succeed while the sectarian violence and power struggles allow neither of them to succeed. In this country, there were strong religious differences. So the compromise was that, while we were founded on Judeo-Christian principles, we are not a Christian or Jewish nation. Rather, everyone subscribes to the same rule of law; which law governs the secular affairs of the people without infringing on religious observance.

So if you can figure out how to get the various nations in the Middle East to subscribe to the rule of law, feel free to depose any dictator you'd like. If you can't figure that out, taking partisan shots only demonstrates your ignorance. Neither party has figured out how to deal with Islamic extremists anywhere in the world. But we needn't feel too badly about that - no other stable democracy has figured it out either!

Tragedy about the reporter and photographer. Had they been killed by U.S. forces, there would be screaming from all quarters about collateral damage. Will Syrian be held to the same standard? Here's hoping.

When I hear the words "French photojournalist", I picture someone looking exactly like that guy.

50% chance she didn't see it coming.

Inside Bobo's head:
"Syria? The Pirates are Somali. WTF Subby?"


"Dammit. Now everyone is looking at me funny"

/has a sad
//hot like mortar fire

Jake Havechek: umad: Jake Havechek: Treygreen13: Jake Havechek: Assad is a punk. We should air strike his ass but the Republicans and teabaggers would just whine and complain.

Not sure if you're the first person to go with the "Republicans don't like violence" angle but I find it remarkable in its strangeness.

It's like when they suddenly were opposed to intervention when Kadaffi was taken out. "Oh no, Obama is starting a war for no reason!!!", while a few months or so earlier they were whining about Obama not getting involved in the Iran civilian uprising.

And just like when Clinton was in office suddenly the Democrats want to use the military everywhere. We couldn't afford the other wars but we can afford some new ones.

SSDD

See? Dumbass comments like yours are exactly what I'm talking about.

Whatever dude. I don't vote Republican and I have been against the wars from the start. If you think that Republicans are against fighting in the ME, I'm pretty sure you are the dumbass.

I say all of you are too soft. We should just get it over with and install puppet dictators in every country.

Good night journalist lady.

She was on Anderson Cooper last night reporting on one of those 7K deaths - a 2 year old. She had film of his family and him struggling to keep him alive and then the aftermath when he died. Because of journalists like her her we have independent proof that the bombing / attacks are actually taking place and it's not some "internet rumour". She also spoke about the fact that they are doing surgeries to remove shrapnel from folks using Motrin because they don't actually have any anesthesia for them - nor do they have medical gloves.

We're not glorifying anything - we're driving home the fact that things over there are pretty fracking serious and while it doesn't need to be the US - SOMEONE needs to help the general population or there isn't going to be much left.

Can we pick a color now for Fark? I'm voting for purple...

Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

Let's spend 6 minutes remembering the person brave enough to go into a battle to tell us first-hand that 7000 people were actually killed because they saw it rather than just pulling stuff out of their butts.

Dinodork: More journalistic masturbation. "7000 people were killed this week, let's spend 6 minutes of the news remembering this journalist". Sickening.

5/10

Got quite a few bites too

stevetherobot: When I hear the words "French photojournalist", I picture someone looking exactly like that guy.

NTTAWT