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Mexico, Colombia and Brazil are the most dangerous countries for being a human rights activist or journalist. Meanwhile global corporate media mostly focuses on
by sudoaza 7y ago
Mexico, Colombia and Brazil are the most dangerous countries for being a human rights activist or journalist. Meanwhile global corporate media mostly focuses on Venezuela...
- doktrin 7y agoHow is that not apples and oranges?
- Sag0Sag0 7y agoBecause the corporate media typically talks about human rights abuses in Venezuela only.
- leereeves 7y agoUnlike the cartels, the Venezuelan government doesn't have to kill journalists in retaliation for a published story, they can kill the story. That doesn't mean Mexico is as bad a place to live as Venezuela.
- lentil_soup 7y agoYou're comparing unrelated things, but in any case Venezuela is lower in the global ranking for press freedom that that article references [1] [1] - https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2019 https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2019
- Nasrudith 7y agoWell of course - governments are expected to be better than organized crime or at least stable. Not to mention the entropic importance of the story being proportionate to the unexpectedness. Snowing in Moscow in the winter isn't news. Snowing in Florida summer is.