Posted on 05/03/2023 10:41:39 AM PDT by rod5591
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was "unbelievable" that data revealed earlier this year show the number of journalists killed in 2022 was 50% higher than during the previous year. UNESCO's data record the deaths of 86 journalists during 2022, "amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021."
But it's also the nature of that threat worrying officials at UNESCO.
"When we started this monitoring many years ago, the main cause of journalists killings in the world was journalists covering conflicts, and now this is the minority of the killings," Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, who heads the Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists section at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) told CBS News during a briefing on the eve of the 30-year-old event.
Now, he said "90% of the journalists killed are journalists or local journalists covering local issues, human rights violation, corruption, illegal mining, environmental problems… and the perpetrators of this violence are not only state actors, they are organized crime, drug lords, environmental criminals."
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Journalists should worry more about being aligned with sleaze, lies, corruption, and personal integrity than they should worry about being killed.
Did they happen to mention Assange?
Did they happen to mention Assange?
I think everyone is disgusted with journalists.....that’s not going to change as long as they continue as they are.
Many foreign “journalists” are spies. Even America shoots spies. CNN, NYT, AP, NBC have spies.
Hmmm...
There are some amongst us who might consider that progress...
I know I do! These things happen when you continuously lie, cheat, misalign and disparage people that don’t agree with you. All journalists have an agenda and its Skews largely to the left. What did they think? People hate corrupt scum.
I feel much the same way. I am not advocating violence against them.
The problem is, the overwhelming majority of journalists have a Leftist world view, and one of the most asinine aspects of Leftist world view is this mantra they all believe:
“I believe people are fundamentally good, but they are corrupted by society. I am a principled, important, and famous journalist, working for good in the world, on the side of oppressed peoples. People want good things for people and they wouldn’t hurt me. Those who might hurt me won’t do so, because I am too important and famous, I am an (INSERT WESTERN NATIONALITY HERE) and it would bring trouble on them if they did hurt me.”
This is endemic in their mindset.
If they don’t say “...I am an (INSERT WESTERN NATIONALITY HERE) and it would bring trouble on them if they did hurt me...” they would say “...I am a journalist working for (INSERT GLOBAL MEDIA OUTLET) and it would bring trouble on them if they did hurt me...”
Either way they don’t understand that people can be inherently bad apart from societal influences, your principles and affinity for “oppressed peoples” makes them MORE of a target not less of a target for many of these inherently bad people, there are people who don’t give a crap about what is good or bad for anyone else but themselves, and if they simply don’t care about the nationality or employer of a journalist, those things might make those inherently bad people positively hostile to them.
They are the same idiots who are in places that sensible thinking people understand they should avoid unless they have protection, but they are there to virtue signal, appear edgy and invincible, or it makes them rich, and then they take a bullet through the head or their mangled body turns up in some remote location.
They are canonized by their stupid employers, eulogized by the politicians, but in the end, they are dead.
I would feel differently and less cynical if 95% of these media did not unequivocally demonstrate each and every day that they are hostile to the values this country was founded on and actively insert themselves to advocate for those very attitudes and policies that made the third world hell-holes they sometimes die in exactly what they are, but...that is not the case.
They have repeatedly shown themselves to be enthusiastic and often corrupt allies with people whom I regard as enemies.
With that in mind, I take no joy in their untimely deaths, but I don’t feel much sympathy, either.
This is the biased United Nations as reported by CBS. Take it with a large grain of salt.
Yes. See my post above.
Often, their ideology gets them killed if not by proxy, but by open antagonism towards who and what they are by people who are fundamentally evil.
Should Be:
U.N. REVELS IN DEADLY ATTACKS AGAINST JOURNALISTS!
Not just spies, but saboteurs.
Domestic enemies intent on destroying our culture and values.
Journalists that work for Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum ?
Why won’t sharks eat journalists? Professional courtesy. How do you tell the difference between a dead skunk and a dead journalist in the middle of the road? There are
skid marks in front of the skunk.
Shakespeare had it wrong. It should have been first we kill all the journalists. Then the lawyers.
When was the last time you saw a real journalist? All I see are activists.
Just removing the LIARS
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