Posted on 12/15/2020 4:53:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New York (AFP) - A record number of journalists were behind bars this year, a US-based watchdog said Tuesday, accusing governments worldwide of suppressing the media and fueling misinformation amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The annual report by the Committee to Protect Journalists found that 274 journalists were imprisoned in 2020 -- the highest number since the non-profit organisation began its survey in the 1990s.
The report also found that 26 journalists and media workers had been murdered this year, with Mexico listed as the world's most dangerous country for the press.
The worst offender was China for the second consecutive year, the survey found, with 47 reporters behind bars and where authorities only last week detained a Bloomberg employee on suspicion of endangering national security.
Other top jailers were Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with Belarus and Ethiopia -- where popular unrest and armed conflict flared this year -- also seeing sharp increases in the number of reporters behind bars.
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That Donald Trump...always jailing journalists he doesn’t like.
Unfortunately, it’s the wrong journalists (or at least not the right ones) being jailed.
None in the USA,so the list is about 200 shy of where it should be.
Clearly, the USA is lagging in this category. /s
Enemy combatants.
Should be done here
The people who should be mailed aren’t actually journalists in any meaningful sense.
A good start.
Not enough.
Fortunately, we have very few journalists in the US.
I was taught President Lincoln overstepped his bounds by using executive orders to arrest lying Journalists, and suspending Habeas Corpus to arrest rebellion sympathizers. In light of today’s media and political treachery, I think I understand President Lincoln’s thought process!
It’s a start.
The “journalists” in the U.S. don’t need to be jailed. They need to be stoned to death.
I call that a fair start.
Joseph Goebbels would disagree with you. He considered journalists exactly like today’s version to be a vital component of the state’s power.
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