NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A media watchdog criticized the U.S. military on Wednesday for consistently failing to investigate the killing of journalists in Iraq by its forces, and said the Pentagon was losing credibility as a result.
The report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, said U.S. troops had killed 13 journalists since the U.S.-led war started in March 2003, and at least 40 other reporters had been killed in the conflict.
"Several of the 13 deaths suggest indifference by U.S. soldiers to the presence of civilians, including members of the press," the CPJ said in a statement.
The report also examined the deaths of 21 media support staff who were killed in Iraq, two by U.S. forces.
Who would have thought that in this era of a constant flow of information, we are actually made less informed by the right having figured out that screaming the first and the loudest can alter the perception of reality to the extent that reality is what they say it is?
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