Newsweek Discovers 'Governments Get Away With Murdering Journalists' – In General
Newsweek ponders why governments evade accountability for killing journalists, a question that gains particular weight given the 97 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza as of February 2024, overwhelmingly by Israeli forces (Committee to Protect Journalists data). Curiously, the "world's" outrage often correlates directly with U.S. geopolitical interests. When Russian or Chinese governments
are implicated, the drums beat loud and clear. When it's a U.S. ally, the conversation pivots to 'fog of war' or 'unavoidable tragedies.' This selective outrage isn't accidental. It's cultivated by a media ecosystem that carefully curates its villains. The silence from major news desks on the systemic targeting of Palestinian journalists, despite a UN report in October 2022 detailing consistent
patterns of Israeli forces shooting journalists like Shireen Abu Akleh, speaks volumes. Newsweek's opinion piece, with its vague 'governments' and 'world,' conveniently sidesteps the powerful governments and lobby groups, like AIPAC, that actively shield certain perpetrators from accountability. Money talks, even over the silenced microphones of dead reporters.