Thirdly, so much more. At the risk of sounding smug, American democracy is so much more civilized than "democracy" in Middle Eastern countries that have a legal tradition based on Islamic law and the Code of Hammurabi, codes which are much more barbaric than even anything which George III imposed on the Colonials ca. 1776.
The chaos and danger of the Middle East is rooted in thousands of years of savage tribal traditions which the misinterpretation of the Koran merely stoked the fires of. While Westerners should be more aware of the dangers of being a journalist in the Middle East, nothing the international community can do, short of upholding the tradition of tolerance central to every great religion, will do anything to mitigate the danger journalists face in the Middle East.
Short of making people more aware of the plight of Middle Eastern journalists, which may merely worry factually powerless Western readers, what you propose be done about the violence these journalists face?
