Murder in the Media

Andrea Mitchell, 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
International Women's Media Foundation

Another journalist was killed Tuesday in Mexico, the ninth to die this year.

Cándido Ríos Vázquez, a crime reporter in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, was shot Tuesday along with two other men, according to the State Commission for Attention and Protection of Journalists.

Thank you to Kate Linthicum of the Los Angeles Times for this story:

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-journalist-killing-20170823-story.html

Journalists die to report on their cities, their states, and their national governments, as well on drug cartels and crime of every kind--not to mention the arts, scientific events like the eclipse, sports, and other activities of people in their nations.  

Journalists face harrassment and rape as well as death.  Kim Wall of Sweden is the most recent example.

Yet dt constantly derides "the media."  Newspapers, radio, and television news shows are reporting on his misdeeds from his years as a landlord to his 2016 election campaign.

I for one will stand up and applaud the courageous journalists around the world who give their time, their energy, and sometimes their lives to find out what is really happening around us and to disseminate it to others.

To see awards given this year by the International Women's Media Foundation, go to their website:  http://www.iwmf.org/2017-courage-in-journalism-awards/

In Memoriam: Kim Wall

Today I'm grieving over the murder of Kim Wall, investigative reporter from Sweden honored internationally for her work.

Here's her website--partially locked: https://kim-wall.com/about/

She has reported from Haiti, Cuba, Sri Lanka, and China.

Kim graduated with honors from Columbia University, where she studied masters degrees in Journalism & International Affairs. She holds a B.Sc in International Relations from London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).

The BBC gives this praise:
"She reported them deeply - she never made a spectacle of the characters. Her reporting was rock-solid." Kim Wall -- March 23, 1987 - August 10-2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41022925

See also this report in The Independent including her mother's comments:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kim-wall-mother-swedish-journalist-killed-died-homemade-submarine-tribute-copenhagen-denmark-peter-a7907951.html

The International Women's Media Foundation has lost yet another of the reporters it has supported and honored.  https://twitter.com/iwmf

I've attended many of the IWMF fundraising dinners in Los Angeles.  More than once a reporter receiving awards on the stage one year is killed the next year.

Mexico and Russia are the worst offending nations for media deaths.

dt chooses to overlook the number of "media" people who give their lives for the truth.  #notfakemedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearence_of_Kim_Wall

An earlier photo (from Facebook) of Kim.  

May she rest in peace, and may the fight for truth and justice continue.