© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail PochuyevIgor Kornelyuk amd Anton Voloshin who worked for Russiaโs radio and television broadcasting company VGTRK were killed in Ukraine in 2014
"Gaza leads the list, with 16 journalists killed by Israel during the Operation Protective Edge, followed by Syria (13 journalists killed) and Pakistan (12 killed)," PEC said calling 2014 a terrible year for journalists.
Iraq and Ukraine come fourth and fifth among the most dangerous places for media work, with 10 and nine journalists killed, the PEC said.
"New conflicts for media workers opened in Ukraine, in the Israeli assault on Gaza, which led to the killings of many media workers, and in Syria, the situation was unprecedented with the beheading of journalists recorded in video clips," the organisation said.
"Compared to 2013, when 129 journalists were killed, the figures are very close," the NGO said.
According to the PEC, more than 1,000 journalists have been killed in the past nine years.
Active, true journalists are freedom of speech advocates. Freedom of speech (and expression) is paramount for (vital to) countering (resisting) those who seek to focus power (politically, technologically) and who, therefore, restrict freedom. These power and control enthusiasts always regard themselves as doing good. Much of their mind (their actual, greater potential), however, is not really conscious and not really aware. And so they try to force focus of others into their narrow minds and belief systems, the part that is aware and the part that they have come to consider good, and THE only good, since they have so little access to any other area of consciousness and so little regard for the 'differing' consciousness of others. This is ego that does this (that restricts the 'observation point') and you could say it is the superego, that restricts unnecessarily.
When freedom of speech (and expression) is operating, it may well contain uncomfortable sounds or gestures to another ego. Uncomfortable sounds or gestures do not necessarily mean danger however. They may mean, you (the ego) need to learn something, that your consciousness needs to expand.
Before I came to Sott, I was a commenter at OpEdNews. I worked really hard there on the above points. If you go to that place (OEN) and study it, you can see it is a center of ego and superego and of restriction of freedom of speech. It is a center of great hypocrisy. Most public sites (I've been to many public comment sites) are exactly like it, like OEN, because they mimic what is already visible (in our apparent world, our theater of trained behavior), and do nothing further, even though they think they do, believe they do. Again, a problem of ego and superego and of a minimal and sheepish (follow the crowd) consciousness.
There are some resistances to freedom of speech here at Sott, but I am working on them and I of course, respect others here that are, also. Some of the resistance is almost sensible and it must be remembered that ego, too, does have a degree of sensibility. Ego is a strange companion or 'bedfellow' (very intimate with) of the developing entity or individual. Superego, the way I am using it, is the imagined greater force (a massive collection of egos) in a social system, that compels the individual ego thinking and existing solely within that system to behave and to conform in a certain way....
So, AGAIN, the enormity of the importance and vitality of freedom of speech (and expression), and what it does, is what I am attempting to convey here and: to clamor for its authentic functioning, is what I am always doing.
Otherwise, nothing changes except even greater loss of individual freedom and more fascist elitist mind control, tomorrow.
Along with even more useless suffering and useless death.
Y'all have a nice day.
nedlud