for the first time in history America has be listed among the most dangerous countries in the world for journalism.
PARIS — The murder of the Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi — in a year when more than half of all journalists who were killed around the world were targeted deliberately — reflects a hatred of the media in many areas of society, a free-press advocacy group said Tuesday.
At least 63 professional journalists were killed doing their jobs in 2018, a 15 percent increase over last year, said the group, Reporters Without Borders. The number of deaths rises to 80 when all media workers and people classified as citizen journalists are included, it said in its annual report (PDF).
The world’s five deadliest countries for journalists include three — India, Mexico and, for the first time, the United States — where journalists were killed in cold blood, even though those countries weren’t at war or in conflict, the group said.
There are certain streets in certain cities that most of us wouldn’t drive through in the day much less the night. St Louis usually takes the #1 murder city in U.S. by population. Chicago by sheer numbers. But in reality we’re talking certain areas, not that it’s a good thing.
So, the left is going to pretend there’s a problem in the US because 6 journalists were killed in one incident last year. That’s actually a very safe profession compared to other professions…
“The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.”
Well, the Trump “conservatives” certainly are. For those of us conservatives who will have nothing to do with Trumpism, this is just another reason we won’t follow Dumpster Donnie down the path he has taken the Republican Party.
You really don’t think that another incident like that could happen in the near future? Especially a future where Trump is no longer president. Don’t pretend Trump hasn’t encouraged ill will towards journalists.
If it was a President who inspired the shooter’s hatred of reporters, based on the dates it must have been Obama. Of course, no President did. It was a persona matter.
