After doing so much research on Russia, it started to feel like I was researching the ways and the reasons journalists were killed. There were also many sources about where journalists are killed the most. This got me thinking about students just like us. We take for granted in the United States that we are going to be safe reporting whatever we want and saying whatever we want, for the most part anyway. These people are choosing a profession, willingly, that they know is a danger to their life.
Russia is the third dangerous country in the world to be a reporter. The first is Iraq, which is pretty obvious because it is a war zone. But Russia is not, the government has just done a complete job of winning their people over, to the point that a lot of them don’t mind that they don’t get all the news the should get. Instead they receive propaganda the government puts together.
Another country in turmoil right now is Libya. The Committee to Protect Journalists has reports that there has been more than 50 attacks on journalists since the political unrest began in Libya last month. There is also a reported 10 journalists that are missing and one has died. A lot of media outlets have been blocked in Libya, including Al-Jazeera’s Twitter, Facebook and website. Journalists houses have been broken into by federal officials and their computers and phones have been confiscated. As a result, many of these journalists have been detained. Libyan officials have found numerous ways for these journalists to stop their reporting, or at least to try and make them stop.
I have so much respect for the journalists who put their lives on the line just so people like us can get the real news. The link below show the timeline of what has been reported to happen to reporters to Libya in just a months time.
Journalists under attack in Libya
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