PrimarySwan t1_j2bd2s7 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 12:16 AM

Reply to comment by A_Soporific in Nearly 1,700 journalists killed over past 20 years, says Reporters Without Borders by DoremusJessup

Though there aren't a lot of journalists so percentages have got to be high. I bet there are more miners or construction workers or oil rig crews than journos.

dub4u t1_j2bjb84 wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:01 AM

I think it's more to do with under what circumstances journalists die. Miners aren't being murdered, they die in real accidents.

A_Soporific t1_j2cbcnt wrote on December 31, 2022 at 4:41 AM

I'm not really qualified to answer that question. Though, I think a fair amount of it depends on definitions. If you include news adjacent talking heads and news-themed youtubers there'd be quite a few. After all, most nations have national and regional government mouthpieces. Then you have major cities and their newspapers, radio stations, and TV news. Even third world places have at least newspapers and radio stations.

But, yeah, journalist isn't nearly as common as construction workers or miners.

I do think that government and organized crime murders of journalists are substantially worse on a pound by pound comparison. It was just happening less often than I had previously assumed.

PrimarySwan t1_j2f36ap wrote on December 31, 2022 at 8:13 PM

I do mean proper journalists, not talking heads and all that. The ones who do the work that is then ripped off by 5k clickbait sites and badly misquoted. News hosts can be journalists and often are former ones but often not.