Journalists are killed weekly in Mexico. No one gives a fuck.
Why is the killing of a Saudi national by Saudi nationals in Turkey a problem for the US?
Saudis behead people in the street.
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Why is the killing of a Saudi national by Saudi nationals in Turkey a problem for the US?
Saudis behead people in the street.
No not everyday does a foreign leader send a goon squad into a foreign country Turkey no less and kill a journalist and chop him into pieces. Don’t be an idiot.
Foreign issues not our problem. Lets all just have a tiny shred of honesty about this. If this guy wasn't a journalist it wouldn't even be a story. People getting disappeared every single day in that part of the world, hell, all over the world and nothing is said, ever. More selective outrage from the left. We jumped in bed with the Saudis decades ago, and now we're worried about the stained sheets?
That's like telling him not to breathe.
Did I miss something? US resident (with three US citizen children) working for the Washington Post.
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Washington Post publishes 'last piece' by Saudi journalist Khashoggi
https://www.wral.com/washington-pos...-missing-saudi-journalist-khashoggi/17923487/
The Washington Post published what it described as the "last piece" written by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in his country's consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.
In a note at the top of the column, Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah wrote that she "held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us."
Attiah wrote: "I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi’s translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul. The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us so that he and I could edit it together. Now I have to accept: That is not going to happen.
"This is the last piece of his I will edit for The Post. This column perfectly captures his commitment and passion for freedom in the Arab world. A freedom he apparently gave his life for. I will be forever grateful he chose The Post as his final journalistic home one year ago and gave us the chance to work together."
In the piece, Khashoggi bemoaned the lack of free expression in the Arab world, leaving the majority of its population "unable to adequately address, much less publicly discuss, matters that affect the region and their day-to-day lives."
He contrasted the current situation with the sentiment felt by many during the Arab Spring, when they hoped to be "emancipated from the hegemony of their governments and the consistent interventions and censorship of information," only to have those expectations dashed as revolutions -- both peaceful and violent -- failed or were crushed by outside intervention.
"Arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate. There was a time when journalists believed the Internet would liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media. But these governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the Internet. They have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications," Khashoggi wrote.
In his final column for the Post, he warned that the "Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power."
Khashoggi's answer to the paucity of adversarial media in Arab countries is to fund and promote a transnational media organization.
"The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important, we need to provide a platform for Arab voices. We suffer from poverty, mismanagement and poor education," Khashoggi said.
"Through the creation of an independent international forum, isolated from the influence of nationalist governments spreading hate through propaganda, ordinary people in the Arab world would be able to address the structural problems their societies face."
https://www.wral.com/washington-pos...-missing-saudi-journalist-khashoggi/17923487/
The Washington Post published what it described as the "last piece" written by Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in his country's consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.
In a note at the top of the column, Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah wrote that she "held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us."
Attiah wrote: "I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi’s translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul. The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us so that he and I could edit it together. Now I have to accept: That is not going to happen.
"This is the last piece of his I will edit for The Post. This column perfectly captures his commitment and passion for freedom in the Arab world. A freedom he apparently gave his life for. I will be forever grateful he chose The Post as his final journalistic home one year ago and gave us the chance to work together."
In the piece, Khashoggi bemoaned the lack of free expression in the Arab world, leaving the majority of its population "unable to adequately address, much less publicly discuss, matters that affect the region and their day-to-day lives."
He contrasted the current situation with the sentiment felt by many during the Arab Spring, when they hoped to be "emancipated from the hegemony of their governments and the consistent interventions and censorship of information," only to have those expectations dashed as revolutions -- both peaceful and violent -- failed or were crushed by outside intervention.
"Arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate. There was a time when journalists believed the Internet would liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media. But these governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the Internet. They have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications," Khashoggi wrote.
In his final column for the Post, he warned that the "Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power."
Khashoggi's answer to the paucity of adversarial media in Arab countries is to fund and promote a transnational media organization.
"The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important, we need to provide a platform for Arab voices. We suffer from poverty, mismanagement and poor education," Khashoggi said.
"Through the creation of an independent international forum, isolated from the influence of nationalist governments spreading hate through propaganda, ordinary people in the Arab world would be able to address the structural problems their societies face."
Source?
And why are we supposed to care about this speculation?
It is irrelevant to the day to day business of the United States. Especially when you consider who we are talking about here. They are fucking Saudis.
Medieval religious nuts with too much money.
None of this matters. None of it.
More slow news cycle torture porn for the unwashed masses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/politics/trump-saudi-arabia-journalist-khashoggi.html
Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist’s Death
WASHINGTON — President Trump broke with his own intelligence agencies on Friday, appearing to accept Saudi Arabia’s explanation that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by accident during a fistfight, while the United States’ spy agencies are increasingly convinced that he was assassinated on high-level orders from the Saudi royal court.
Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist’s Death
WASHINGTON — President Trump broke with his own intelligence agencies on Friday, appearing to accept Saudi Arabia’s explanation that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by accident during a fistfight, while the United States’ spy agencies are increasingly convinced that he was assassinated on high-level orders from the Saudi royal court.