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I'm not ignoring it. 0 journalists were killed in Russia this year (at least not in a way that made this list). Does one incident resulting in 4 deaths constit

I'm not ignoring it. 0 journalists were killed in Russia this year (at least not in a way that made this list). Does one incident resulting in 4 deaths constitute a trend? how many journos were killed in the US in years past? What about other countries that were at zero this year? This year's report shows a zero for France, but as another commenter reminded me, Charlie Hebdo had 12 people killed (7-8 could be called "journalists" if you count copy editors and cartoonists) just under 4 years ago. What did that shooting say about the danger of being a journalist in France, and did that constitute a trend? Which country is more dangerous - France or the US? It's a value judgment. This is my point.

simion314 8y ago
But if 4 journalists were killed in other country would you made same point? I agree "dangerous" is not well defined here , still is a correct fact that US was on top and that compared to other civilized countries in US you can have 1 journalists upsetting 1 person and that causing all persons in the journal building got killed, this could include journalists that did not wrote any "controversial" articles. So we can debate the meaning of dangerous or if we need 1% of jorunalists to be killed before you consider it a dangerous job but IMO the fact that as a journalists I and my colleagues could get killed with heavy guns because some person is upset is dangerous/risky compared to other countries (maybe compared to US is more dangerous to be a student)
phjesusthatguy3 8y ago
"Trend" is also a word that doesn't appear in TFA.