At least 232 journalists have been killed amid the genocide, a new Costs of War report finds.
The paper: News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World
israel targets journalists because israel considers the truth an enemy.
Now let’s talk about medical personnel
Not genocide… Holocaust
It’s a bad headline: seems easy to believe that there’s just a lot more journalists around today than there were in the world wars.
Much better would be to highlight from the body of the article that the death toll is also more than have been killed in the invasion of Ukraine. That one’s modern, well-covered by media, Russia has repeatedly targeted civilians, and Russia’s been attacking for longer. So to have still killed more journalists makes it clear that it’s deliberate.
Well when you target journalists this will happen
The Zionist demons can’t have people reporting on genocide
Systematically
Worst day to publish a paper, Brown University.
Edit: (Not that I think it’s a joke, but you just know someone—like my parents potentially—will respond to the paper by saying it’s just an April Fool’s prank.)
Brown’s Nick Turse seems to only be counting “war reporters” who are killed directly reporting on conflicts, and even then I still don’t believe his numbers for the other wars.
This nonsense misses the point entirely, which is that Israel is openly inflicting a genocide on Gaza with the active support of the USA.
I’m highly skeptical unless we’re excluding Jewish, LGBT, and other journalists who were killed for being Jewish, LGBT, etc., not for being journalists.
Their source doesn’t seem reliable. They use a singular source (https://www.freedomforum.org/journalists-memorial/) for their WW1 and WW2 numbers.
It’s rather easy to see how these numbers are very much incomplete.
Why? It says that during WW2 a total of 10 journalists were killed in Germany - yet not one of them was German. With ~1.1 million German civilian deaths, I’d argue there were realistically a couple hundred German journalists among them at the very least. Sure, they were journalists for state propaganda outlets and I cannot bring myself to care about nazi propagandists. Yet they were journalists nonetheless who should be included in statistics.
And this doesn’t even begin to encompass all other countries where many more millions of civilians were killed. There is not a chance in hell the number of journalist deaths during WW2 is even in the same ballpark as ~60. 10,000 would be my lower estimate.
If you find some more sources, I’d be interested
IFJ White Paper on Global Journalism which goes into detail about journalists killed from 1990-2020. From that data the amount of journalists killed per year in a conflict is still highest in Gaza, with the Iraq War coming very close in 2006 and 2007.
I can’t find detailed data about Journalists killed in older conflicts, if you find some please share
“Oh no number must be wrong it shouldnt be 100 it is 99”. Genocidal war crime colonial dont care about what the number means they focus more on whatever they can to discredit whatever happen taking the direction of the topic away from the fact that alot of journalist are targeted by Israel because of the coverage.
Yeah, hyperfocusing on the amount entirely misses the genocidal actions and intent. Even if the numbers weren’t accurate, that wouldn’t change anything (if anything, it’s a huge undercount)
