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by netsharc 2740 days ago
This satirist wrote a scathing lookback of 2018, and British journalists didn't get a free pass either. Writing about Khashoggi, he says:

Perhaps the saddest part of this whole business is knowing that there are so few British journalists committed enough to get murdered: you could silence most just by breaking the fingers they use to do select all, copy, paste. Nobody’s going to flay you to death just for barking offers of money through the letterboxes of recently bereaved parents, or trawling for offensive tweets with your free hand. Of course, there are a lot of good journalists. Perhaps journalist is now just too broad a term, in much the way the word actor encompasses everyone from Meryl Streep to Sooty.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/22/frankie-boy...