Confronting impunity In a country where there is now more soft journalism than hard, J Dey, editor investigations of Mid-Day, has paid the price for risking taking on dangerous people http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/3-deaths-14-attacks-on-journos-in-last-six-months
----- My comment to the story. Just today a story came from the US that the one person has been convicted in the killing of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey who was gunned down on his morning walk to work. It took four years to reach a verdict and the former leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery of murder for ordering the journalist's assassination. As noted in the article, the case of journalists killing in India are unlikely to be solved. The police-criminal-politician nexus is hard to break. The former Mumbai Police Chief Julio Ribeiro once remarked that a decision taken at the top-level of police brass reaches some members of the underworld in very quick time. Will allowing journalists to carry arms, as in Pakistan after the murder of a journalist there, would be of any assurance to the working journalists? -- Eugene Correia (comment was sent yesterday)
