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Simon Cumbers RIP

  • 08-06-2004 1:31pm
    #1
    DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭


    With the downtime yesterday, we didn't get a chance to mention the tragic death of Simon in Riyadh.

    Very sad news. My condolences to his wife and family.


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  • #2
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    I second that, sad news indeed.

    Naturally, its a risk you have to take when working in such volatile enviroments, but I'm sureyou never think it will happen to you (if you did it would be very difficult to make yourself go there), it is still a tragedy though, and my deepest condolences go to his family and friends, and my best wishes to Frank Gardner, who is still critically ill in hospital

    Flogen


  • #3
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    The BBC are now to offer armed guards to journalists "if the location they are reporting from is deemed to be sufficiently dangerous"....
    http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1234082,00.html

    On the subject of risk, I’d like to believe that most journalists who put them self in danger, whether in Dublin, Belfast, or the Middle East, it’s because they believe in the importance of what they are doing. And I’d hope a great deal of calculated risk taking.


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