Another Journalist is Beheaded

3 thoughts on “Another Journalist is Beheaded”

1. I’m thinking that there’s been a shift in the treatment of journalists of late and that it may be another example of disintermediation.

   In the past, even terrorist groups have generally treated journalists with kid gloves, because they wanted to get their side of the story out, and the best way to do that was to talk nicely to journalists and give them safe passage. Nowadays, that’s unnecessary–if you’re a terrorist and you want to get your message out, you put up a web page, you set up a Twitter account, you’re on Facebook, you post youtubes of beheadings, etc. You don’t need journalists at all–in fact, you can afford to slaughter any that come your way, and in fact it’s better publicity to do so. Also, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, the mayhem is the message.

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2. AmyP, your point in more detail by a longtime journalist and leader in trying to protect journalists: http://cpj.org/blog/2014/09/back-to-back-display-killings-of-journalists-unpre.php

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   1. I like their phrasing better–the murder is the message. (It somehow slipped my mind that murder also begins with “m”.)

      Also, come to think of it, a couple of the beheaded American journalists have been Jewish.

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