Peter Greste and the “War on Truth”
At the end of every year Time Magazine awards an individual with the title “Person of the Year”. This year Time magazine has awarded that title to not one, but four journalists and a newspaper in a bold message that brings light to a worldwide attack on media freedom. The people of the year renamed “the Guardians” in the “War on truth” include: murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, who covers the atrocities committed by Filipino President Duerte and is now facing up to ten years in prison, imprisoned Myanmar journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who investigated the murders of Muslim Rohingya men, and the small US newspaper “The Capital Gazette” which was attacked by a gunman in… Read More
