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Counting Deaths from Drone Strikes
Debate about drone strikes often centers on who is killed: "militants" or civilians. In the absence of official information, casualty estimates provided by media fill the gap; however, the estimates are incomplete and may significantly undercount the extent of reported civilian deaths. The US government owes the public an accounting of who is really being killed.
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Selected Media Coverage
Questions on Drones, Unanswered Still, New York Times
Counting the bodies in the Pakistani drone campaign, Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Columbia Study: Media Drone Strike Reporting Flawed, Huffington Post
Apple Rejects Phone App That Tracks Worldwide Drone Strikes, Truthout.org
The Brookings Institution Demands Servile Journalism, The Guardian