Dave Lindorff calls it "a moment that spoke volumes last week about the spinelessness of American journalism." At Colin Powell [3]'s March 19 Baghdad press conference, "all of the Iraqi and other Arab journalists... got up and walked out, along with many reporters and camera crews from European and other countries," to protest the killing of two reporters [4] for the Dubai-based Al-Arabiyya TV channel. "But the American reporters... [shunned the] act of professional solidarity in protest against rules of engagement that allow American troops to slaughter accredited journalists." In a letter to Donald Rumsfeld [5], the Committee to Protect Journalists asks [6] "whether U.S forces are adequately taking into account the presence of journalists... and using appropriate measures to avoid endangering them."