Of course attacking TV stations and suchlike and killing journalists is now standard enough practice - it's happened in Iraq, and Afghanistan and of course there was the time Tony Blair bombed a TV station in Belgrade and killed 16 technicians and journalists.

Here's a site monitoring these kinds of attacks on media workers - International News Safety Institute - INSI More than 100 journalists and other media workers were killed in 2008. There's a running score chart on that site - so far the toll for 2009 is six.