Media Blackout September 1st
I will join the IFJ, Reporters without border, and Avaaz in their action
At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed.
The International Federation of Journalists, Reporters without border and Avaaz have called for a media blackout on September first.
By the numbers, the ongoing genocide in Gaza “has killed 232 journalists – an average of 13 per month – making it the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded, according to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Costs of War project.
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia and the United States war in Afghanistan combined, the report published on Tuesday found.” This was in April. It is now 242.
200 newsrooms and press freedom groups in a global blackout. For 24 hours, beginning now, we are going to remain silent on social media so that the world hears this louder: