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His point is, getting hard news is hard, comment is cheap.


Well the guy who leaked the Iraq video to wikileaks is in prison now. I think that is quite a high price. Not many journalists if any are prosecuted from their own state for reporting what the power that be does not want to hear. Though that said, Dr. Kelly in Britain paid a high price too.


> Not many journalists if any are prosecuted from their own state for reporting what the power that be does not want to hear.

I don't quite get where are you coming from with this. A good deal, maybe half of the political prisoners and political assassination victims worldwide are journalists. Hell, in my homeland at least one journalist mysteriously disappeared and a few went through the prison.


That's a good point. I meant in the western democratic world like US, UK etc.




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