The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

T his is one of the most dangerous times for journalists to be writing in a decade, according to a report highlighted by an article in Time . The article states: Journalists around the world have faced a substantial increase in physical and verbal attacks compared to previous years. The report also noted that a decline in media freedom around the world … had been matched by an increase in authoritarian tendencies guided by strongman leaders. This is shocking, but it also does not come as much of a surprise. One doesn’t need to ask why it is shocking. It’s blatantly obvious. The thought that individuals might face threats and intimidation on a daily basis for writing is already awful enough. Then we remember Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jan Kuciak, Viktoria Marinova and Jamal Khashoggi, amongst so many others, and realise further how absolutely barbaric attacks on journalists can and do get. The verbal assaults become physical, and only grow worse as time passes. But the re...