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How many journalists need to be assassinated before others notice a trend.
I put this in another thread, but it bears repeating:
https://cpj.org/2023/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
"As of December 17:
64 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 57 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 3 Lebanese.
13 journalists were reported injured.
3 journalists were reported missing.
19 journalists were reported arrested.
Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members."
More on the CPJ:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/committee-to-protect-journalists/
Why do you think we have mostly terrible “journalism” these days?
I am convinced that Israel is deliberately targeting journalists and their families. It keeps fucking happening, where a journalist says something that undermines Israel’s narrative, and then either they or their families are killed.
Israel knows where everyone is at all times unless they’re underground. It’s always intentional, every journalist and every doctor and every UN aid worker. Israel isn’t accidentally killing anyone. It’s always done with intent.
It makes sense; they hate journalists and NGOs and view them as anti-Israel. There’s decades of evidence showing they are targeted by soldiers, same way a lot of US soldiers accused the “liberal media” of opposing the wars and Bush tried to target Al Jazeera’s offices with a car bomb until Tony Blair vetoed the idea.
Journalists used to treat attacking one of their own as something the entire field could rally behind, and now they’re literally dodging rockets and bullets while reporting, being shoved around like ragdolls and not a word from any of them because it’s the US empire doing it this time.
