TIME Magazine has today named "The Guardians" as their Person Of The Year. No, not the Marvel superheroes. The four people and a magazine named as Person Of The Year are Jamal Khashoggi, Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo, Maria Ressa, and The Capital Gazette. Guardians in the War On Truth, you see. Very dramatic, but not exactly wrong.
Jamal Khashoggi, I trust we are all aware, was murdered by the Saudi Arabian government for being critical of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters journalists, have been imprisoned in Myanmar for investigating the genocide of Rohingya Muslims.
Maria Ressa is editor of Rappler, a news website critical of the Filipino government. They're going after her and her website for alleged tax evasion.
The Capital Gazette office in Maryland was attacked by Jarrod Ramos. Ramos, who shot and killed five members of the staff and injured two others, had been harassing and threatening staff at the paper for years after failing to sue them for reporting(truthfully) that he had plead guilty to criminal harassment.
I'd say this is a good pick by TIME. The on-going attacks on the free press, clearly, involve far more than just Trump's shitposting about fake news, and having a free press is pretty important for, you know, holding governments accountable and all that good stuff. What do you think, NSG? Approve? Disapprove? Failing TIME is fake news?
Oh, also, the online readers' poll chose K-pop band BTS as Person Of The Year, and runners-up for the main Person Of The Year were Donald Trump, Robert Mueller, the March For Our Lives activists, Moon Jae-in, Ryan Coogler, and Meghan Markle.
