Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman.

thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t wish to make too many tangential top-level comments, so I am declaring this the tangential thread, but all I can think of is that America is on a path where someday we’ll also have journalists who will literally have to choose between the truth and their own safety. We already have so many who choose lies over the truth when their safety is not questioned.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We have most of them picking job security vs. asking the hard questions, and when a few do ask something beyond what's expected from the officials we call them "brave". All of them should be doing this.

    Some of them from some networks are playing the game because they profit from it, which is a problem as well.

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  • enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lots of journalists have come and gone that feared for their safety in the US. The only new thing about trump is how transparent all the corruption overreach and abuse of power has become.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not just transparent. How aggressive and prevalent.

      It has always been there, but it is much, much worse right now than any time in the last 50+ years.

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