Kill The Messenger

This post idea comes from not only the movie I just watched but it is one of the top 25 most censored pieces of media in the last year. It seems being a journalist, especially in an international setting has become a front line profession. In the past year the amount of journalists killed on duty likely due to the stories they are reporting has jumped by almost 50%. Has it really gotten to a point where people don't want something getting out so bad they are willing to kill someone just doing their job? The photo below was posted by wikileaks showing an image of before a helicopter killed members of a journalism team in Iraq.

Why do these journalists losing their lives to bring the public stories not get put in media themselves. Maybe anyone who posts any kind of media regarding this will be killed themselves? Am I going to be killed for this blog post? Probably. in 2012 over 200 journalists were killed on the job, most of them military journalists, which leads to the troubling issue that a lot of these journalists are being killed by U.S. soldiers. Which leads me to believe one thing, these foreign journalists are being killed by U.S. soldiers because the United States does not want U.S. citizens seeing what soldiers may be doing to people in war torn countries. In fear of mysterious packages showing up at my door I will let you all read on through the links below to see how corrupt and censored the deaths of journalists really is, and why some journalists may now have a reason to fear their career.

http://www.projectcensored.org/16-journalism-attack-around-globe/

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/feb/14/press-freedom-censorship

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1438