TIME has chosen Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists as 2018's 'Person of the Year'.

[kpete]

Time's 2018 'Person of the Year' is killed and imprisoned journalists
Time magazine is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work.


Others: The staff of Maryland’s Capital Gazette; Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo; Maria Ressa, CEO of a news outlet in the Philippines targeted by Duterte.

Dec. 11, 2018 / 4:42 AM PST
By Tim Stelloh"The Guardians."

That's what Time magazine is calling the journalists behind 2018's "Person of the Year," which was revealed exclusively Tuesday morning on "Today."

With a record number of reporters behind bars around the planet — the Committee to Protect Journalists documented 262 cases in 2017 — an avalanche of misinformation on social media and government officials from the United States to the Philippines dismissing critical, real reporting as "fake news," Time is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work.

For them, pursuing the truth has meant prison and harassment. In some cases, it has meant death.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/time-s-2018-person-year-killed-imprisoned-journalists-n946311?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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[dembotoz]

1. good choice

[Kingofalldems]

2. Kick and rec.

[Iliyah]

3. K & R

shove it t-rump.

[Cha]

4. Good Call! I'm

impressed!

[demmiblue]

5. Time Person of the Year 2018: The Guardians and the War on Truth

The stout man with the gray goatee and the gentle demeanor dared to disagree with his country’s government. He told the world the truth about its brutality toward those who would speak out. And he was murdered for it.

Every detail of Jamal Khashoggi’s killing made it a sensation: the time stamp on the surveillance video that captured the Saudi journalist entering his country’s Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2; the taxiway images of the private jets bearing his assassins; the bone saw; the reports of his final words, “I can’t breathe,” recorded on audio as the life was choked from him.

But the crime would not have remained atop the world news for two months if not for the epic themes that Khashoggi himself was ever alert to, and spent his life placing before the public. His death laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-U.S. alliance and—in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links—the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?

http://time.com/person-of-the-year-2018-the-guardians/

[James48]

8. Gasket blown in 3-2-1-.....

His Trumpleness thought it was going to be him.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. Phew....goosebumps

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. That ought to piss off the Tangeranus.

Expecting angry tweet storm in...*checks watch*

[Miles Archer]

17. Trump in November: "I can't imagine anybody else other than Trump"

President Trump said Tuesday that he "can't imagine" anyone other than himself being named Time's Person of the Year.

A reporter asked Trump as he prepared to depart the White House for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida who deserved to finish second for the designation, telling the president he assumed who his choice for first would be.

"It’s called person of the year, right? It’s no longer man of the year, right?" Trump replied.

"I don’t know, that’s up to Time Magazine," he continued. "I’ve been there before. I can’t imagine anybody else other than Trump."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/417721-trump-i-cant-imagine-anybody-else-other-than-myself-for-time-person

[kwassa]

24. Trump can never imagine anyone but himself.

He is first and foremost in all his thoughts, as it were.

[MyOwnPeace]

31. You are so correct.........

so now we're gonna' hear about "Fake Persons of the Year."

[MFGsunny]

7. K & R

[Chicagogrl1]

9. Thank God

Well done Time

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Great choice.

Without the fourth estate we'd have more chaos than we are having to fight now.

[EffieBlack]

11. Outstanding choice

[lilactime]

12. K&R

[exboyfil]

13. What if Time had done the victims of

Kristallnacht in 1938 (when it was Hitler) or 1939 (when it was Stalin).

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. Excellent choice. And a finger in the the eye of Rump and MBS. nt

[ginnyinWI]

15. How does it work having four covers?

Are they all in the same issue, or are they different for different parts of the world?

[ismnotwasm]

16. Excellent choice

[gademocrat7]

18. Bravo!

[Moebym]

19. As it should be.

I was prepared to be angry at BTS being chosen from the concerted efforts of fanatical K-Pop devotees. I think this celebrity worship thing has gone too far, and has overshadowed the very real and terrifying reality of journalists being killed and false news being disseminated to support the agendas of tyrants.

[3catwoman3]

52. BTS?

I hate being uninformed. Who/what is BTS.

[Liberty Belle]

20. Great, and honoring the slain Capitol Gazette reporters along with Khashoggi & more is brilliant.

Hats off to Time, though I don't understand why there are 4 different covers.

[kskiska]

21. Wonderful!

[llmart]

22. "Fake News"

How soon before the idiot proclaims this is fake news and that he really won and then he'll paste his picture over the front of the cover?

You think I'm kidding? I put nothing past him since he's delusional.

Oh, and can we make sure we keep the bastard Kushner associated with the killers of Jamal?

[Loubee]

23. Next year: Bob Mueller

[calimary]

25. Rest In Peace.

to those whose work cost them life itself.

[zentrum]

26. It is the right choice because...

.....of the Trump accusation that real news is "fake news", and because the loss of a free press is the first point of attack by all autocrats.

[Gothmog]

27. Yeah

Link to tweet

[Soxfan58]

28. Bravo!

[smirkymonkey]

29. Excellent choice!

I am SO glad it's not Trump. The last thing he needs is more fuel for his ego.

Well done TIME!

[Achilleaze]

30. Bravo!

[jb5150]

32. The only time I want Trump on the cover ...

is when he's wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.

[LAS14]

33. Excellent! Inspired! Was this on the short list published here? nt

[defacto7]

34. No better choice could be made. Bravo Time.

[gratuitous]

35. A lot of journalists nobody's ever heard of

How about the folks at the top of the profession, the ones who get paid the big bucks? Where have they been in the war on truth, Time? I don't mean to piss all over your choice, but journalists have not distinguished themselves in the past few years in following through on the Trump administration. For people who could devote endless hours and miles of column inches on the subject of Hillary Clinton's e-mails, you've shown a remarkable imperviousness to digging into the many sins and crimes of the Trump administration.

Is it because there's so much, you can't prioritize so you just let it go for the most part? Is it outrage fatigue, never much in evidence whenever the Republicans want to rev up a nontroversy to set their base off. Are the stories too complicated, but you can easily follow the Republican train of logic that concludes that tax dollars are paying for abortion because some health insurance covers women's health.

But then, nobody ever targets the chucktodds for their journalistic work. So maybe they really are the smart ones who know that they shouldn't rock the boat?

[KPN]

36. Couldn't think of a better choice.

[Hortensis]

37. Good! Some journalists are in danger for years,

carrying on with a courage I just couldn't match, knowing that eventually, all too possibly, even likely for some,....

[lark]

38. So glad they didn't pick the Orange menace.

I really didn't want his ego stroked by that and didn't want to have to see this every time I went to the grocery store. They did a great job in picking the Guardians, the media.

[LiberalLovinLug]

39. Me too

Because his cult followers will just look at that and think and say "see look! Trump is doing such great things that even the failing Times cannot help but put him on their cover!" And Trump himself has always gone by the motto, "Any publicity is good publicity"

[TSheehan]

40. Well deserved.

Thank you, TIME!

[dalton99a]

41. A timely choice. Very appropriate.

[handmade34]

42. good!

[cp]

43. Very good!

[sheshe2]

44. The way I see it...

It really was the only choice this year.

[orangecrush]

45. K+R

[BlancheSplanchnik]

47. Brilliant, Time magazine.

[Gothmog]

48. This is a good choice

Link to tweet

[demmiblue]

49. Kick (because some are not capable of searching DU) n/t

[TNNurse]

50. There are four different covers.

I would encourage anyone who gets the one with Kashoggi's photo to tear it off and send it to the White House.

[democratisphere]

51. Perfect choice.

[Hekate]

53. Kicking this