Many of them are victims themselves, but they are waging a war against inequality in their homes and marginalisation and brutalization outside.

BBC: The brave Muslim women of Gujarat

And why have Western media outlets been so reticent in discussing the significance of their own reporters' brutalization at the hands of the Egyptian demonstrators?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Lara Logan and the media rules

We are very heartened in general by the international consensus that has been created here very rapidly in condemning the actions of the Libyan regime and the brutalization of the Libyan people by the Libyan government, and that includes obviously AFRICOM.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

While the reporters on the scene in Cairo serve as a rebuke to the notion of journalistic cowardice, the international media's tepid and superficial coverage of their brutalization at the hands of the demonstrators shares important features with the negligence of CNN in Iraq and the reporters in Ramallah.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Lara Logan and the media rules