Posted on 12/11/2018 11:00:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s been a grim year for those seeking to pursue and preserve the truth.
Journalists around the world have been targeted and assaulted for their work. Some have paid with their freedom; others have paid with their lives.
Even the president of the United States — a country that has prided itself on having freedom of the press since its founding — has repeatedly attacked the media as “the enemy of the people.” Other world leaders have echoed this aggressive stance against the media, cracking down on reporters who have tried to hold them accountable.
We are living through nothing short of a “war on truth” — but it is in such a time that “professional truth seekers” are more important than ever, Time magazine declared in its latest issue.
For these reasons, Time magazine announced its 2018 Person of the Year is “the Guardians,” four individuals and one group — all journalists — who this year helped expose “the manipulation and the abuse of truth” around the world.
Among them: Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist who was killed inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in October.
“The Guardians” also include the staff of the Capital Gazette, whose Maryland newsroom was attacked by a gunman in June; Maria Ressa, chief executive of the Rappler news website who has been made a legal target for the outlet’s coverage of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte; and journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who have been jailed in Myanmar for nearly a year for their work exposing the mass killings of Rohingya Muslims.
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“Guardians of the Fake News”
Yeah... Truth
Modern journalists are no guardians of the truth.
They take bodacious Obamas on the truth.
Journalism: When you absolutely, positively have no abilities in any profession requiring the ability to sense the environment correctly and produce something worth while.
Self congratulatory and factually weak. The Capitol Gazette was shot up by a man feuding with a personal grudge against the paper.
Kashoggi was killed by KSA for turning over to the CIA and not for his reporting.
Truth = DNC/Globalist propaganda
Whew, could they get any more Orwellian?
Hopefully they admit there’s a difference between journalists who go to prison for exposing the misdeeds of the government in Myanmar and a putz like Jim Acosta.
#OrangeManBad
Hey, Presstitutes:
TRUMP HAS NOT IMPRISONED NOR KILLED ANYONE!!!!!!!
All the truth that’s fit to print.
Ending the Korean War? Nope, not as important as claiming a monopoly on The Truth.
Choosing Bozo the Clown would have made as much sense.
The people of Burma are oppressed. Saluting media workers there is appropro.
The Capital Gazzette folks were victims of a deranged kook who had NOTHING to do with government intervention of their jobs.
I don’t know enough about the situation in the Philippines to comment. I do have family from there, and they seem to be able to travel back and forth without fear.
Um, Muslim Brotherhood champion Jamal Khashoggi?? Bull crap.
Is Time pushing to have his ashes interred in the National Cathedral next to that gay guy killed by his gay lover and drug dealer in a drug deal gone bad?
What?
No Tommy Robinson?
Shocked!!!
What?
No Sharyl Atkinson?
No one from Project Veritas? No James O’Keefe?
Shocked!!!
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