Kapow! Journalists are not being targeted

Point: Central
Command spokesman in April 2003: "we don't target journalists." "We know that we don't target journalists," said Brigadier General Vince Brooks, deputy director of operations in 2003.
Counterpoint: After insurgent violence against journalists, "US military fire is the second-leading cause of death. At least nine journalists and two media support staff have died as a result of US fire in Iraq in the last 23 months," says Joel Campagna of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Campagna says it's not so much a matter of journalists being targeted as one of "negligence or indifference." Victim of checkpoint shooting, Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena: "there was suddenly this shooting, we were hit by a hail of gunfire" (bbc).
Danny Schechter commentary at common dreams includes quotes from ITN's Terry Lloyd's whose marked TV vehicle was shot up by soldiers, and Nik Gowing of BBC World: "[t]he trouble is that a lot of the military-particularly the American military-do not want us there. And they make it very uncomfortable for us to work. And I think that this is leading to security forces in some instances feeling it is legitimate to target us with deadly force and with impunity."