The Bush administration killed a number of journalists, some say deliberately:

<the Bush administration ordered numerous strikes against known media targets. In 2003 alone three such strikes were executed in Baghdad, one targeting Abu Dhabi Television, another hitting the Palestine Hotel -- where correspondents were known to reside -- and a third that struck Al Jazeera’s offices in the Iraqi capital, killing journalist Tariq Ayoub.

While the administration maintained the attacks were not deliberate, Arabs accused Washington of intentionally looking to silence what it saw as negative reporting. “The first objective in launching these strikes,” a colleague of Ayoub’s told Al Jazeera, “is to send the message that those who do not side with [the United States] against Saddam Hussein one hundred percent will be punished.” Ayoub’s father offered another interpretation. The objective behind these targeted killings, he told Al Sahfi.com, “is to eliminate those that can bear witness to crimes committed by U.S. forces in Iraq.”

The most damming evidence, however, was the video provided by the whistleblower site, Wikileaks. It showed an American attack helicopter launching a missile strike against Reuters journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh in 2007. For many in the Arab world, the images were yet further proof that Washington was indeed targeting the media.> http://newamericamedia.org/2011/08/...

As for Russia:

<In its September 2009 report the Committee to Protect Journalists repeated its conclusion that Russia was one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists and added that it remains among the worst at solving their murders.> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...

Don't forget our beloved FIDE President:

<Larisa Yudina (November 22, 1945 - June 8, 1998) was a journalist and the editor of the opposition newspaper, Sovietskaya Kalmykia Sevodnya (Soviet Kalmykia Today). She was found dead on 8 June 1998, with multiple knife wounds and a fractured skull, in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia.

Prior to her death, she had published articles accusing Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the president of Kalmykia, of corruption. Three men were convicted in connection with the murder, but the names of those who ordered the killing remain unknown.

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