Friday, December 16, 2011
Who hates news?
Thinking about the searches and seizures of Carbon Heretics, I happened on this chart from the Committee to Protect Journalists:
Shows how many journalists are currently in jail, by nation.
One real surprise to my eyes. Israel, "the only democracy in the Middle East".
If you pro-rate these numbers by population, Israel beats everyone except Eritrea. Beats China, beats Persia, beats its neighbor Syria.
And yet Israel is our dear friend. Or more precisely our boss. So let's not mention our bossman's little peccadillos. Wouldn't be prudent. Instead, we're emulating his example.
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Later thought, after writing this item. The fact that the journalists in those various countries are in jail tells us that the journalists in those various countries are real journalists doing the correct job of the press. They are actually questioning authority, and sometimes getting in actual trouble. No professional journalists are in jail right now in America, which tells us that 100% of the paid journalists in America are reliable slaves of the Establishment.
(One recent exception which has never been explained: Judith Miller. She was apparently helping the Bush Administration on Iraq, yet she was jailed by some part of the Bush Administration for a hard-to-define crime. Was this an accidental side-effect of an attempted coup by factions within the admin? We'll never know, because our journalists never ask real questions.) ¶ 6:24 AM
Shows how many journalists are currently in jail, by nation.
One real surprise to my eyes. Israel, "the only democracy in the Middle East".
If you pro-rate these numbers by population, Israel beats everyone except Eritrea. Beats China, beats Persia, beats its neighbor Syria.
And yet Israel is our dear friend. Or more precisely our boss. So let's not mention our bossman's little peccadillos. Wouldn't be prudent. Instead, we're emulating his example.
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Later thought, after writing this item. The fact that the journalists in those various countries are in jail tells us that the journalists in those various countries are real journalists doing the correct job of the press. They are actually questioning authority, and sometimes getting in actual trouble. No professional journalists are in jail right now in America, which tells us that 100% of the paid journalists in America are reliable slaves of the Establishment.
(One recent exception which has never been explained: Judith Miller. She was apparently helping the Bush Administration on Iraq, yet she was jailed by some part of the Bush Administration for a hard-to-define crime. Was this an accidental side-effect of an attempted coup by factions within the admin? We'll never know, because our journalists never ask real questions.) ¶ 6:24 AM
