Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dangerous-conditions-constrain-journalism-in-iraq Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript As security conditions have deteriorated in Iraq, the country has become the most dangerous in the world for journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Two veteran reporters discuss the challenges of getting the story amid the violence. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: Four years into the war, Iraq remains the deadliest country in the world for reporters, that according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.Richard Engel went to Iraq as a freelance journalist four years ago before joining NBC. He kept a video journal of his time there and his documentary uncovering the war, called "War Zone Diary," airs tomorrow on MSNBC.Here's a short excerpt. A note: We edited out one particularly disturbing image. AMERICAN SOLDIER: Back up. RICHARD ENGEL, NBC Correspondent: We were caught up. We had been operating one way for several months, and we thought that the pattern had emerged. We were able to go anywhere we wanted to in the country. Suddenly, the rules of the game had changed: We were targets. SOLDIER: Everybody all right? RICHARD ENGEL: Our hotel, our first bureau, was bombed. BOMBING VICTIM: … move to the other side of the hotel. JOURNALIST: Should have said yes. JOURNALIST: I'm just astonished that it was us. Fortunately it wasn't big enough to knock the building down. BOMBING VICTIM: Jesus Christ. RICHARD ENGEL: Poor guy. He was one of the hotel's cleaning staff. He was sleeping in the lobby.I have a theory as to why insurgents are now attacking journalists. They're now making their own videos, posting them on the Internet. I have hundreds of them where they show their own attacks, and kidnappings, and mortars. The insurgents groups have evidently decided it's not worth it to talk to the Western press.We're all infidels. We are here to just to call them terrorists. Better, they think, to put their own message out, post it so everyone in the world can see it, and then try and drive reporters out of the country.