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Many years ago I admired journalists and even aspired to be one, for a short period of time. Now, by and large, I despise journalists, especially Western liberal/progressive "journalists"
1 posted on 05/03/2023 10:41:39 AM PDT by rod5591
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"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."


2 posted on 05/03/2023 10:44:48 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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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.


3 posted on 05/03/2023 10:46:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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Did they happen to mention Assange?


4 posted on 05/03/2023 10:47:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Did they happen to mention Assange?


5 posted on 05/03/2023 10:47:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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I think everyone is disgusted with journalists.....that’s not going to change as long as they continue as they are.


6 posted on 05/03/2023 10:48:44 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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Many foreign “journalists” are spies. Even America shoots spies. CNN, NYT, AP, NBC have spies.


7 posted on 05/03/2023 10:51:02 AM PDT by poinq
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"...TRENDS IN DEADLY ATTACKS AGAINST JOURNALISTS"

Hmmm...
There are some amongst us who might consider that progress...

8 posted on 05/03/2023 10:54:36 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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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.


10 posted on 05/03/2023 11:11:43 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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This is the biased United Nations as reported by CBS. Take it with a large grain of salt.


11 posted on 05/03/2023 11:12:13 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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U.N. REVEALS "UNBELIEVABLE" TRENDS IN DEADLY ATTACKS AGAINST JOURNALISTS

Should Be:

U.N. REVELS IN DEADLY ATTACKS AGAINST JOURNALISTS!

13 posted on 05/03/2023 11:15:11 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Journalists that work for Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum ?


15 posted on 05/03/2023 11:29:08 AM PDT by butlerweave
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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.


16 posted on 05/03/2023 11:38:06 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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When was the last time you saw a real journalist? All I see are activists.


17 posted on 05/03/2023 11:45:34 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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