I don’t want to see any more martyrs. Three journalists have been killed in Europe this year, and Jamal Khashoggi, another journalist, was brutally murdered recently. Some think the press is their enemy, especially when the press reports on them in a less-than-flattering way; they try to silence journalists who hold a mirror up to those people’s excesses, greed and corruption.
I would rather that the press be allowed to do its muckraking best, no holds barred, without fear of reprisal or mortal danger. That they do not have to become martyrs to make us, the public, work towards the common good for all.
