Salman Hit Squad Murdered Khashoggi [Update-5] | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Repression and Attacks on Journalists (none / 0)

I am not persuaded that this particular assassination merits a cause célèbre for a "free press." That is, I've no reason to assume Khashoggi is/was a free agent. I've no reason to assume that the Washington Post is/was his sole employer either.

There's this thing about "cover stories" ... apart from Trump's disingenuous concern for undesirable or unauthorized criminal activities.

Trump said CIA Director Gina Haspel [!] and other U.S. officials looking into the killing should return from the region Tuesday evening and Wednesday.

puhleeeeeze

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Oct 24th, 2018 at 09:07:42 AM EST
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Re: Repression and Attacks on Journalists (none / 1)

He was unambigously a journalist, and unambiguously murdered by a despot for the ideas he expressed in the press.

I care what clubs he belonged to, or what side jobs he did for who, insofar as it would obviously colour my reading of his articles. But as a poster boy for a free press, he's no worse than Julian Assange or Caruana Galizia.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Wed Oct 24th, 2018 at 09:28:15 AM EST
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Re: Repression and Attacks on Journalists (none / 0)

I am not prepared to offer distinction to one as opposed to any other victim of murder. Why start down that path.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Oct 24th, 2018 at 12:16:46 PM EST
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Re: Repression and Attacks on Journalists (none / 1)

I admire you, if that's true.

I care about the murder of journalists. I care about the murder of trade unionists, civil rights workers, ....

I don't care about every fait-divers murder in the world. Sorry, I have a hierarchy.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Wed Oct 24th, 2018 at 02:20:16 PM EST
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To be perfectly truthful, distinction between murders must satisfy one of two tests of necessity in my judgement.

length of gestation
agreement on certainty of morbidity > 95%

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Oct 24th, 2018 at 05:49:14 PM EST
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Salman Hit Squad Murdered Khashoggi [Update-5] | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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