Time Magazine Person of the Year: The Guardians
Source: Time Magazine
The stout man with the gray goatee and the gentle demeanor dared to disagree with his countrys government. He told the world the truth about its brutality toward those who would speak out. And he was murdered for it.
Every detail of Jamal Khashoggis killing made it a sensation: the time stamp on the surveillance video that captured the Saudi journalist entering his countrys Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2; the taxiway images of the private jets bearing his assassins; the bone saw; the reports of his final words, I cant breathe, recorded on audio as the life was choked from him.
But the crime would not have remained atop the world news for two months if not for the epic themes that Khashoggi himself was ever alert to, and spent his life placing before the public. His death laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-U.S. alliance andin the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and linksthe centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?
Khashoggi put his faith in bearing witness. He put it in the field reporting he had done since youth, in the newspaper editorship he was forced out of and in the columns he wrote from lonely exile. Must we choose, he asked in the Washington Post in May, between movie theaters and our rights as citizens to speak out, whether in support of or critical of our governments actions? Khashoggi had fled his homeland last year even though he actually supported much of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmans agenda in Saudi Arabia. What irked the kingdom and marked the journalist for death was Khashoggis insistence on coming to that conclusion on his own, tempering it with troubling facts and trusting the public to think for itself.
Read more: http://time.com/person-of-the-year-2018-the-guardians/
empedocles
(15,751 posts)hlthe2b
(102,278 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,998 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)I would hope that he wouldn't be portrayed in a positive way.
brush
(53,778 posts)either positively or negatively. If it had went to someone who impacted it negatively IMO it should gone to Putin, not his flunky.
mcar
(42,331 posts)Good choice(s).
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)I only disagreed with one statement in the link; that msnbc was the liberal equivalence to Fox, not even close, besides msnbc isn't liberal.
Excellent choice Time. We are already starting to forget about Khashoggi. I see that Jared Kushner has taken it upon himself to counsel Khashoggi's murderer, MBS, on how to get through this.
llmart
(15,540 posts)"Jared Kushner has taken it upon himself to counsel Khashoggi's murderer, MBS, on how to get through this."
Tie his lily white ass to the murderer every single day until he's indicted.
lilactime
(657 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)I keep reading ... and think .... this is most important
The division coincides with the growth of partisan cable news networks. In 1996, Fox News Channel was founded on the assumption that the national media reflected the liberal inclinations of journalists working for it. And surveys did show a lean to the left in their personal politics. Fox was not the first news outlet to thrive by offering news viewers the satisfaction of a shared view of the worldMSNBC, its liberal counterpart, premiered four months earlierbut it was the most strikingly partisan in a television landscape that historically tried not to be.
When TV arrived in homes via physically scarce airwaves, a license to broadcast was deemed a public trust, and the Federal Communications Commission enforced the Fairness Doctrine, which required stations to cover public controversies, and to include more than one side. The hundreds of channels brought by cable rendered the scarcity premise obsolete as justification for regulation (the Fairness Doctrine was repealed in 1987), and the fire hose that is the Internet has washed away the last traces. So it was that TV news went from being a blandly unifying force, confined largely to half-hour nightly newscasts, to a constant companion nudging the country into partisan camps.
And, then, as I read on, I find everything else is so true ... and so important
In the U.S., local newsrooms are disappearing fastest. Since 2004, the U.S. lost nearly 1,800 newspapers, the UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media found in an October report. Half of the 3,143 counties in the U.S. now have just one newspaper, usually a small weekly. Nearly 200 counties have no newspaper. And between 1,300 and 1,400 communities that had newspapers of their own in 2004 now have no local news coverage at all.
Thank you, erpowers, for posting ... and thank Time for really getting it.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,455 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)1. BTS
2. Planet Earth
3. Thai Cave Dwellers
4. MBS
5. Moon Jae-in
6. Undocumented Children
7. Michelle Obama
8. Jair Bolsonaro
9. Christine Blasey Ford
10. Robert Mueller
11. Colin Kaepernick
12. Simone Biles
13. Serena Williams
14. Meghan Markle
15. Justin Trudeau
16. Pope Francis
17. Stacey Abrams
18. Donald Trump
19. Lady Gaga
20. Ariana Grande
21. Donald Glover
22. Aly Raisman
23. Angela Merkel
24. Beyonce
25. Elon Musk
26. Maxine Waters
27. Kamala Harris
That's everyone who got more than 1 percent in the reader poll.
calimary
(81,267 posts)To the victims.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Gothmog
(145,243 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)the GOP and all who voted for them are terrorists.