U.S. Added To List Of Most Dangerous Countries For Journalists

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This obsession to drag America down to the level of the scum of the earth is increasingly the primary characteristic of leftist discourse.

A disgruntled employee shot up the Capital Gazette — what does that have to do with the freedom of the press, etc.?

This is yet another manifestation of the miserable and the evil’s hatred of the good for being the good. The press in the USA is wildly free, dangerously reckless, using their microphone like clubs to beat us into submitting to their totalitarian way of thinking.

The left has run amok in putting America on this list when:

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While Erdogan “has been the fiercest critic of Saudi Arabia for the murder of Khashoggi, his government continued to jail more journalists than any other on the planet,” CPJ reported. Turkey jailed at least 68 journalists in the past year and “(f)or the third consecutive year, every journalist imprisoned in Turkey is facing anti-state charges.”

Nearly 200 opposition newspapers and media, such as Today’s Zaman, have been taken over or shuttered – 189 in total. Only press outlets favorable to Erdogan and his ruling party have been allowed to continue operations.

The Stockholm Center for Freedom, run by former Today’s Zaman editor Abdullah Bozkurt, notes that Turkey‘s intelligence agency has abducted at least 80 people from 18 countries due to suspected ties to exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. (IPT)

Don’t get me started on Iran or China or …..

“Oh, Please: U.S. Added To List Of Most Dangerous Countries For Journalists,” by Paul Bois, Daily Wire, December 19, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

In a move that is motivated by everything political and nothing factual, the United States has been listed among the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, according to NBC News.

In its annual report, the free-press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders lists the United States among countries like Mexico, India, Syria, India, and Afghanistan for being one of the most dangerous for journalists based on the number who died in the U.S. in 2018. Not one of the deaths they listed, however, had anything to do with the U.S. government. Four of the six deaths listed stemmed from the Capital Gazette shooting (performed by a crazed lunatic who had a beef with the newspaper); the other two were killed while covering a storm in North Carolina.

“The United States joined the ranks of the world’s deadliest countries for the media this year, with a total of six journalists killed,” the group reports. “Four journalists were among the five employees of the Capital Gazette, a local newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, who .were killed on 28 June when a man walked in and opened fire with a shotgun. He had been harassing the newspaper for six years on Twitter about a 2011 article that named him. It was the deadliest attack on a media outlet in the US in modern history. Two other journalists, a local TV anchor and cameraman, were killed by a falling tree while covering Subtropical Storm Alberto’s extreme weather in North Carolina in May.”

Though Reporters Without Borders does not explicitly state it, the media has incessantly blamed President Trump’s rhetoric toward the media for the Capital Gazette shooting this past summer.

“We won’t forget being called an enemy of the people,” the Capital Gazette editorial staff said following the shooting. “No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do.”

“Our community has rallied around us to show they understand who we are, and that we are not the enemy of the people,” it continued. “We are your neighbors, your friends. We are you.”

Of course, all of these deaths are tragic, but Reporters Without Borders lists them among journalists who have been killed either by the hands of local officials or organized crime. While the group notes that it distinguishes “between journalists who were deliberately targeted and those who were killed while reporting in the field,” it nevertheless lumps the United States among some strange bedfellows….

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Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

We must see unjust imprisonment from a global perspective.
The unjust imprisonment by Muhammadist tyrannies is a slow, silent killing.
It is the same murder that is happening through censorship of US-based Wikipedia, media, social media & education facilitated by Trump’s policies.

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

After facebook, twitter , even Google, youtube joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Referring to articles filled with falsehoods, easily proven as false … and “journalists” telling bald faced lies … Calling them “fake new” has hurt the little snow flake’s feelings. It’s dangerous out there … someone may point out, with verifiable proof, that the journalists are telling lies. Now, they can’t have any of that, can they?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Yeah, I’m really upset about this. LOL!!!
The global media is in the tank for Islam to help destroy the west.
When the global lefty media gangs up on Trump, I know he is doing the right thing.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Those poor “journalists”, living in fear.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

LOL!
Good.
Let the liberal journalists stay in MUSLIM countries.

I am so glad Trump doesn’t have the global perspective and outs our national interests first.
This will upset all the global social justice warriors who still want the U.S. to be a global traffic cop for the politically correct social issues. Don’t be fooled! Hiding behind GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS is another GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR tactic that is often used to pull on the unsuspecting heartstrings of less informed people. There is no low for a global social justice warrior.Global SJW’s even want illegal immigration
and asylum as GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS forget your laws and policies!
Globalists have no time for SOVEREIGNTYor PATRIOTISM in any form!

GRA
GRA
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I could not agree with you more.

created4el
created4el
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

felix1999
Yes!!! The Leftist “journalists” should flee to Muslim dominated countries as if their life depended on it. Then, maybe, reality will wake them up.

CrustyB
CrustyB
5 years ago

Oh, no wonder Jim Acosta pouts and throw temper tantrums.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

To call the leftist, islamic propagandists in the enemedia ‘journalists’ is laughable.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

The Leftist-Fascist media inhales and exhales lies, fake-news; it is its essence, lifeblood. Meanwhile, the greatest threats to the Republic and those nations feigning democracy are perfidious like of Facebook, Google, and copious others. The so-called news providers are, also, Fifth Columnists endeavoring to undermine this Constitutional Republic as they have done throughout the West.

The fetid Democrats are, moreover, beyond culpable in the betrayal of America and its Constitution. Adding the U.S. as a danger to journalists is an unmitigated falsehood, conjured by those of the Fifth Column brigade; shameless encouraged and enabled by those within the Democratic Party, the Judiciary, the FBI, and other agencies within the inner-workings of the subversive plot.

John Patriot
John Patriot
5 years ago

Of course it is. So-called journalists have rights here in the USA. Try doing fake news in china or north Korea.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago
Reply to  John Patriot

Agreed. AP = American Pravda

Kenek
Kenek
5 years ago

The fake news is not controlled by the elected government it is controlled by leftists traitors who want to bring down civilization and exterminate white men and civilization.

Ban Islam
Ban Islam
5 years ago

It’s not America’s fault that Khashoggi was killed. Muslims have been at war with each other and us from day one. The real problem here is that we treat our enemies like Saudi Arabia as our allies while they spread terrorism and Islam all over the world to destroy non-Muslims.

Same goes for Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and other Islamic nations who are basically ISIS states. We should be ending all business, immigration, trade, cooperation, etc and working to free those populations from Islamic domination and establish secular democracy like what we have here or simply end all ties with them.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

FOAD!

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

No, you just exude it.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

If you need a translation you obviously aren’t the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

Jackie
Jackie
5 years ago

Where is the outrage for a real American Journalist killed by a CIA car bomb in LA – Michael Hastings. I am sorry about Khaskoggi but live by the Saudi gun running DIE by the Saudi snakes.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
5 years ago

While we are on the subject of irresponsible remarks representing a viable threat to others, such as Trump’s labeling the media “fake news”, let’s call a spade a spade, no pun intended. Let’s talk about Obhammud’s virulent rhetoric being the cause of the anti-cop sentiment that is stark reality.

Who can ever forget his saying the Hartford cops “acting stupidly” remark for arresting a black professor for creating a drunken public disturbance? Or that insipid crack about thug teenager Trayvon Martin looking the imaginary son he never had?

Yes, let’s have that discussion.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Thank you!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

LOL! Ufcking leftist. Truly FAKE NEWS!

Obviously, this is an attempt to neutralize Trump for being mean-spirited against them. But that does not make it a danger to them.

Ufcking lying leftist.

GRA
GRA
5 years ago

LOL … more biased liberal propaganda in retaliation to Trump fronting out the liars and cowards in the profession for reporting fake news. Yes I hope the USA is “dangerous” … (LOL) towards journalists … at least those that are politically biased and dishonest.

David Square
David Square
5 years ago

The United States is the safest place in the world for journalists who are members of the leftist MSM. However, as the Antifa attack on Tucker Carlson’s home suggests, America may well be the least safe area in the world for conservative journalists.

Mike Kevins
Mike Kevins
5 years ago

I suppose this means they are going to pack and run in fear for their lives! One can always hope. Actually, we would really have to have some journalists in the first place. They are about as prevalent as a dodo bird.

Kwitcherbellyakin
Kwitcherbellyakin
5 years ago

This is a bad joke. Silly or stupid comparisons. American journalists are pretty safe, unless they are exposing or proposing Islam.
By the way, Jamal Kashhogi was not an American journalist. He held press credentials from the Washington Post, but he did not live here and did not like America. He may have loved Obama, but that was because Obama favored Iran and did not like the Saudis. He was the nephew of Adnan, who was a friend to the old king. He did not like the line of succession when the old king died, and went to work against their regime. So, a reporter, he wasn’t. If anything, he was a caught spy.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Thank you!

Also beware of those piously parading around around on GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS and ANTI SAUDI ARABIA propaganda! Global social justice warriors are full of shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. The U.S. is not the world’s traffic cop or ATM machine for “reparations” and other crap like that. Ask Dr. Ben Carson if he needed reparations.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

A dead Muslim is ALWAYS a blessing!

Khashoggi and Our Islamist Media
By Daniel Greenfield —— October 25, 2018

Khashoggi and Our Islamist Media, Muslim Brotherhood

In 2014, Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post’s Tehran Bureau Chief, was arrested and spent two years in prison. Iran kept him in one of its worst prisons, he slept on a damp concrete floor, was denied medical treatment, experienced hallucinations due to sleep deprivation and was abused by his captors. His wife was told that her legs would be cut off and her husband would be thrown off a cliff if she didn’t confess.

While Jamal Khashoggi has often been misidentified as a Washington Post journalist, all he did for the radical leftist paper owned by Amazon’s CEO is write editorials promoting the Muslim Brotherhood agenda. The Muslim Brotherhood leader and former Bin Laden pal was never a journalist. The closest he came to it was acting as a terrorist propagandist in Afghanistan, glamorizing Osama bin Laden, on behalf of a man listed by the Treasury Department as one of “the world’s foremost terrorist financiers.”
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After Egypt, Libya and Syria, will we stop falling for the same lies?

And yet the arrest and abuse of Jason Rezaian didn’t touch off a fraction of the outrage from his own paper as the possible death of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudis. The media went through the usual formal protests, but the outrage was muted and there was no talk of sanctions. Instead, Rezaian, along with some other hostages, was illegally ransomed after two years by Obama for $400 million.

The media did not vigorously campaign to break off relations with Iran, as it now is with Saudi Arabia.

It didn’t push too hard out of fear of spoiling Obama’s dirty nuclear deal with Iran’s terrorist regime. And even the arrest may have taken place, according to some sources, because of Rezaian’s closeness with some regime figures.

The New York Times showily announced that it was suspending its pricey Saudi tours over Khashoggi, but it never stopped its Iranian tours, not over Rezaian’s imprisonment, or the killing, torture and rapes of Iranian protesters.

The Washington Post rolled out a special Jamal Khashoggi edition, but there was no special Jason Rezaian edition. There were fewer news stories about Rezaian’s imprisonment after two years than there have been after a week of Khashoggimania. The Post and the rest of the media did far less for Rezaian, one of their own, than they were willing to do for Khashoggi, a shady Islamist activist.

Why?

The answer has everything to do with the media’s political agendas. It is not concerned with human rights. And it’s even less interested in freedom of the press. It has no principles, only allegiances.

The media will always favor Islamist movements over non-Islamists

The media underreacted to Rezaian’s arrest because it supported Iran’s Islamist government. It overreacted to Khashoggi’s disappearance because he is an Islamist leader. And under Mohammad bin Salman, the Saudis, once the hub of regional Sunni Islamism, turned against the Muslim Brotherhood.

The media is raving against Mohammad bin Salman because he opposes Iran and the Brotherhood. It repeats every piece of propaganda from Turkey and Qatar because they back the Muslim Brotherhood.

If the Saudis turn around and support the Muslim Brotherhood, the media will happily let them kill as many reporters, journalists, hacks and pundits as they like. The media does not care about human rights. It cares only about the triumph of Islamist political movements and it will tell any lie on their behalf.

The scandal of the Khashoggi case is not whatever the Saudis or anyone else did to Osama’s old friend. It’s that the Washington Post provided space for a Muslim Brotherhood leader to push the agenda of America’s enemies, and is colluding in a political campaign to overthrow the Saudi government.

The Washington Post is not “investigating” Khashoggi’s death, it’s spreading smears from the Turkish regime’s pet media while pressuring American lobbyists to drop the Saudis. Khashoggi’s death is just another tool for implementing regime change in Saudi Arabia and replacing its king with another ruler who will return the oil power to its usual stance of supporting Islamic terrorists and fighting Israel.

That’s what Khashoggi wanted. It’s what the Washington Post and the rest of the media want.

Khashoggimania exposes an alliance between the media and the Islamists
The truly disturbing thing is not Khashoggi’s death. It’s his life. Khashoggimania exposes an alliance between the media and the Islamists. Human rights is the cover for this red-green alliance, just as it was in the Iranian Revolution and the Arab Spring. The differing media reactions to Khashoggi and Rezaian, parallel the differing reactions to the Green Revolution and the Arab Spring, to human rights abuses in Egypt under Morsi and under Sisi, and in Turkey under military rule and under Erdogan.

There is a consistent pattern, not of human rights principles, but of Islamic expediency.

The media will occasionally report on human rights abuses by Islamists. But it will do so in a cursory fashion, without incendiary outrage or calls to action. It’s only when reporting on Islamist protests against non-Islamist regimes that the media will shift from being bystanders to becoming activists.

When human rights abuses occur in Islamist countries, such as Iran, the media will emphasize the importance of liberalizing them by maintaining ties with them. But when Islamists claim human rights abuses at the hands of our allies, such as Egypt, the media will urge us to break ties with them.

Saudi Arabia is only the latest to fall afoul of this ubiquitous double standard.

When the Saudis were sponsoring Islamist terrorists, including Al Qaeda, we were repeatedly lectured on the importance of maintaining relations with them in order to liberalize them. But once the Saudis actually began making some small steps toward liberalization, the media wants to break ties with them.

Like Khashoggi, the media does not want actual liberalization

Like Khashoggi, the media does not want actual liberalization. When Khashoggi talked about democracy, human rights and freedom of speech, he meant those as political tools for a Muslim Brotherhood takeover. And then, just as in Erdogan’s Turkey or Morsi’s Egypt, they would end.

Khashoggimania has proven beyond the faintest shadow of a doubt that the media thinks the same way.

When the media wanted Saudi Arabia to liberalize, it didn’t mean women driving cars. It meant just enough political liberalization to enable Khashoggi and the Muslim Brotherhood to take over.

The media wants to do to Saudi Arabia what it did to Iran, and what it did to Egypt. When the media talks about, “liberalization” in the Middle East, read it as, “Islamization.”

The media did not form an alliance with Islamists of its own accord. Its pro-Islamist agenda is not the work of mere lobbyists, as some have claimed in the past, otherwise the Saudis would be riding high. Khashoggimania casts light on a deeper alliance between the red elites of America and the green elites of the Middle East, between Qatar, Turkey and Iran, and between a radical establishment in America.

Both the red and the green elites fuse revolutionary ideological movements with state power. Our red media echoes the conspiracy theories and talking points of the green media of Turkey and Qatar. Neither are a free or independent press in any truly meaningful sense of the term. The Washington Post and Al Jazeera are just two sides of the same coin. Khashoggimania is a shared regime change operation.

Every Islamist regime change operation has been advanced under the guise of human rights. It’s time that we stopped being fooled by the same lies, and started asking some hard questions. After the Iranian Revolution and the Arab Spring, those questions are more urgent than ever.

The media has spent the better part of a year regaling us with conspiracy theories about foreign collusion. Why is it colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood on regime change operations by lying to Americans, just as it did in Egypt, Libya and Syria, and how will it be held accountable?

https://canadafreepress.com/article/khashoggi-and-our-islamist-media

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Were they all CNN reporters? So, what’s the problem

Transgender Trump Supporter
Transgender Trump Supporter
5 years ago

If only it were true

Kenek
Kenek
5 years ago

Perhaps it would be a good idea if most American “journalists” were beheaded, tortured , and beaten whenever they produced their fake leftist news. At least the reports about the US being a dangerous place for the fake news “journalists” would be correct! Lets hope this report becomes true !!

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