Flock camera installer calls police: 'I'm getting followed' and police officer intervenes

Good move by this flock camera installer!

Why are journalists following and filming flock camera installers in the first place!

(4) Flock camera installer calls police: 'I'm getting followed' - YouTube

Mexico: Ricardo Zúñiga Rosas, eighth journalist murdered this year, publicly reported threats linked to his work

Bad news! President Sheinbaum needs to do more!

"... According to press reports such as El Universal or La Jornada, two men on a motorbike arrived at Productos Zuma, Zúñiga’s cleaning-products store, where the media worker was present, entered the premises and shot him, who was taken to Tehuitzingo Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. ..."

Mexico: Ricardo Zúñiga Rosas, eighth journalist murdered this year, publicly reported threats linked to his work | RSF "Ricardo Zúñiga Rosas, a 35-year-old photographer and local journalist, was killed on 29 August in the municipality of Tehuitzingo, in the state of Puebla, after publicly reporting threats linked to his reporting. He is the second journalist to be murdered in Puebla in less than two months. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the murder, calls for a thorough investigation and urges President Claudia Sheinbaum and the federal authorities to activate the nationwide emergency response to violence against journalists demanded by RSF on 26 August."

Ricardo Zúñiga Rosas

At least 27 Ukrainian media professionals have been imprisoned by Putin the Terrible since the Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2022

Bad news!

"As of today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has identified at least 27 Ukrainian media professionals imprisoned by Russia.

Among them are six media professionals from Melitopol, a city occupied by Russia in southeastern Ukraine, who have been languishing in Russian prisons for three years under arbitrary detention, unjust convictions and ill-treatment, often thousands of miles away from their families.

Their situations are different, but each case is a stark illustration of Russia’s brutal repression of Ukrainian journalists and media workers.

Some have been sentenced to decades behind bars. Oleksandr Malyshev was sentenced to 26 years in prison, the longest sentence ever handed down to a media professional since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Yana Suvorova, just 21 years old, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. She is being held in a prison known for its mistreatment of Ukrainian detainees.

For others, their fate remains uncertain. Heorhiy Levtchenko is serving a 16-year sentence, upheld in June 2026, but his current place of detention remains unknown. Anastasia Hlukhovska, meanwhile, has been held incommunicado for three years without ever being prosecuted or sentenced.

..."

Up to 26 years in prison for reporting from Ukraine

U.S. Court of Appeals delivered one of the strongest First Amendment rulings for undercover journalism in years.

Good news!

"On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 in Democracy Partners v. O'Keefe, overturning a $130,000 jury damages award against conservative activist James O'Keefe and undercover reporter Allison Maass.

Case Background

The Sting:

In 2016, Project Veritas reporter Allison Maass spent eight days as an unpaid intern at the consulting firm Democracy Partners. She secretly recorded conversations with Democratic strategist Robert Creamer and others.

The Lawsuit:

Democracy Partners sued O'Keefe and Maass for fraud, wiretapping, and breach of fiduciary duty, winning a $130,000 judgment in a lower court.

Key Rulings by the Court

First Amendment Protection:

The majority opinion written by Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson concluded that the damages award violated the First Amendment. It improperly punished the defendants for publishing a news story rather than penalizing separate actionable conduct.

Fiduciary Duty Reversal:

The court ruled that Maass did not become a fiduciary to her news target simply by tricking him into an unpaid internship.Wiretapping Claims: The appeals panel also set aside the lower court's findings regarding wiretapping violations tied to the undercover operation. ..." (Google Search)

Caveat I am not familiar with this case.

Democracy Partners, LLC v. O'Keefe, 25-7080 (D.C. Cir. 2026)

President Trump is serious: Hormuz could become U.S. territory. Really!

Many of the news media outlets had fit over one of his latest remarks by President Trump! This president is having too much fun irking journalists!

Not to mention that he also threatened to bomb Oman!

Where are the coward European powers when you need them (e.g. for mine sweeping and escorting cargo ships etc.)!

President Trump certainly has a way of keeping the news media busy and breathless! It is a lot of fun to watch!

"President Trump doubled down Monday on the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory, arguing that American forces already have "total control" of the critical waterway as Iran threatened military action to break the U.S. blockade. ..."

MxM News: Trump is serious: Hormuz could become U.S. territory

The immigrant to migrant switch in public discourse. Words matter!

In recent years news media and other sources have avoided the term immigrant and substituted it with migrant. Immigrants and migrants are not the same!

Migration is more commonly associated with animals (animal migration) not humans. Humans rather migrate and settle.

According to Google search: "Migration is the broad, overarching term for any movement of people (or animals) from one location to another, whether across international borders or within a single country.
Immigration is a more specific type of migration that refers exclusively to the act of permanently moving to and settling in a foreign country."

A nice switch in terminology most likely triggered by some ideology!

Are not e.g. gypsies or cross border commuter workers considered to be migrants?

Latest issue of Foreign Affairs is full of delusions

Caution: satire!

From the table of contents:

"The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System

Nadia Schadlow

The Multipolar Delusion

And the Unilateral Temptation

C. Raja Mohan"

March/April 2026 | Foreign Affairs

Today, China, Russia, Myanmar, and Belarus still count for the world’s largest prison populations of journalists.

Just a reminder at the end of 2025 or the end of the first quarter of the 21st century!

"710 journalists spent time in prison this year, and more than 500 will be spending the end-of-year holidays there too, according to our latest figures."

Over 500 journalists will spend the holidays behind bars (Reporters Without Borders (RSF))

Exiled, convicted, surveilled: how Russia has prosecuted nearly 70 journalists beyond its borders in the past two years

Journalism in the empire of Putin the Terrible!

Exiled, convicted, surveilled: how Russia has prosecuted nearly 70 journalists beyond its borders | RSF "Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns of Russia’s growing use of in absentia convictions against exiled Russian journalists and foreign media professionals. This repressive legal tactic is used to intimidate journalists, block their return to Russia and pressure their relatives,  and has become commonplace since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Over 44 months, nearly 70 journalists have been targeted, according to data cross-checked by RSF and the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ), a British charity."

Note: This chart presents semiannual data

Image of the day

A so called journalist (with Al Jazeera, killed by Israeli Defense Forces air strike)

"Journalist" Anas Al-Sharif with killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. (Source)

Israeli attack killed five journalists in Gaza. Really!

Bad news! It is probably too early for the facts regarding this case to come out.

Are some of the journalists in Gaza Strip actually Hama terrorists? Possibly! To pose as a journalist is a nice cover. 

Did Al Jazeera vet this journalist carefully? Since when was he a journalist of Al Jazeera? Etc.

There also claims that the IDF killed up to 200 journalists in the Gaza Strip. Sounds incredible! Further investigations into this claim are recommended.

Caveat: I am not familiar with the details of this case.

"... five journalists working for Al Jazeera, including prominent correspondent Anas al-Sharif, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. 

The Israeli military claimed responsibility for the strike, stating it targeted al-Sharif, alleging he was a "terrorist" and head of a Hamas militant cell involved in rocket attacks." (Google search result)

Al Jazeera condemns Israeli attack that killed five journalists in Gaza

RSF alarmed about fate of 14 other, detained journalists after the execution of Turki al-Jasser in Saudi Arabia

How bad is the situation for journalists in Saudi Arabia?

The Wikipedia entry on this journalist is extremely thin and says little about his journalistic career.

Was he a terrorism sponsor or a journalist or both?

Of course, the RSF wants to compare the death of this journalist with the killing of the  celebrity journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

"... Before his murder, Turki al-Jasser was a jailed journalist. He had been imprisoned for running the news blog Al-Mashhad Al-Saudi (“The Saudi Scene”), where he regularly addressed social issues such as women’s rights and the Palestinian cause. Several of his fellow journalists remain behind bars — often mistreated or denied fair trials — for their reporting. Some have been imprisoned since 2012. Others were arrested during the wave of detentions that preceded the rise to power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017. Their fate now lies in the hands of an increasingly repressive regime. ..."

"Turki al-Jasser was the founder of the news blog Al-Mashhad Al-Saudi and also contributed to the now-closed newspaper Al-Taqrir. He was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to death on charges of terrorism and high treason, based on writings he was accused of authoring. He was executed on 14 June 2025 after 7 years imprisonment. ..."

"The Ministry of Interior announced today [7/14/2025] the execution of Turki bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al-Jasser, a Saudi national, after he was proven to have committed several terrorist crimes, including high treason, communicating with foreign parties to harm the Kingdom's security, and receiving sums of money to finance terrorist activities aimed at undermining internal security, national unity, and the country's stability. ..."

Portraits from Saudi Arabia: RSF alarmed about fate of detained journalists after execution of Turki al-Jasser | RSF "The execution of journalist Turki al-Jasser by the Saudi regime has raised serious concerns about the fate of other media professionals wrongly detained in Saudi Arabia for doing their job. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has profiled their cases and calls for their immediate release."

UNESCO Director-General condemns the execution of journalist Turki al-Jasser in Saudi Arabia "The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has condemned the execution of journalist Turki al-Jasser in Saudi Arabia, on 14 June."

Treason, espionage, and financing terrorism: A citizen was executed as a discretionary punishment in Riyadh. (this news outlet publishes in Arabic) "Treason, espionage, and financing terrorism: A citizen was executed as a discretionary punishment in Riyadh."

Turki al-Jasser

RSF exfiltrates Ekaterina Barabash: the Russian journalist’s escape from Putin the Terrible

Good news! As if the Soviet Union never disappeared! Greetings from the Gulag!

"On 5 May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) held a press conference at its headquarters to present Ekaterina Barabash to the press.

The Russian journalist and film critic disappeared from Moscow, where she was under house arrest, on 21 April and is now in Paris.

Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison. RSF coordinated the operation and ensured her safe passage to France. ..."

RSF exfiltrates Ekaterina Barabash: the Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris | RSF

Ekaterina Barabash

The Pulitzer Prizes 2025: Wall Street Journal winning for chronicling Elon Musk

Everything you did not know about Elon Musk!

"Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For chronicling political and personal shifts of the richest person in the world, Elon Musk, including his turn to conservative politics, his use of legal and illegal drugs and his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin."

The Pulitzer Prizes

Credits: Techcrunch newsletter

National Review: Trump Is the New FDR. Really!

Apparently, the National Review is also suffering from the Trump Derangement Syndrome!

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a big government socialist who did not want to quit when it was time like the senile, demented, and corrupt 46th President later!

Caveat: I did not read the article. The headline was bad enough!

Trump Is the New FDR "The progressive hero created the predicate for the Trump presidency."

Ich hasse die Meinungsfreiheit oder wie die BRD seit 1990 zur DDR wurde

Wieder mal schlechte Nachrichten aus der Bananenrepublik D.! Es geht weiter bergab mit der ehemaligen DDR seit der Wiedervereinigung!

Amtsgericht Bamberg: Sieben Monate Haft für Journalist wegen Fotomontage

Eine satirische Fotomontage (Meme), die das gestörte Verhältnis von Noch-Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser (SPD) zur Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit kritisch thematisiert

Risking their lives all over the world - 7 Journalists killed in war zones over the past 2 weeks

They say truth is the first casualty of war! For sure, being a journalist in a war zone is a dangerous job.

"Their names were Ali Taimeh and Ibrahim Muhareb, Win Htut Oo and Htet Myat Thu, Hero Bahaden and Gülistan Tara, and Ryan Evans. They were journalists or media professionals who worked in Gaza, Myanmar, Kurdistan and Ukraine. What did they have in common? They were all killed in the course of their media work in the past two weeks. ..."

Risking their lives all over the world

Peter Doocy confronts KJP with evidence of coordinated attempt to protect Kamala Harris from 'border czar' record. Really!

Peter Doocy like other permanent White House journalists is a doozy!

All he essentially does he sits in the White House press room and asks some questions. I am not aware he does any serious investigative journalism.

To challenge the charming and naive Karine Jean Pierre is like child's play!

Caution: Satire

Peter Doocy confronts KJP with evidence of coordinated attempt to protect Kamala Harris from 'border czar' record | Blaze Media

Under Mexican President AMLO Mexico has continued to be the country with the highest murder rate of journalists

Bad news! Some jobs are more dangerous than others depending on country.

"... In the almost six years that he has been president, at least 37 journalists have been murdered and five have disappeared. ...
Aside from the appalling death toll, no reform of the system for protecting journalists has been implemented despite the recommendations in this area from organisations such as Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Worse still, the president has continued to express hostility towards the work of the media on many occasions, in stark contrast to his promises. ..."

Mexico : no progress on protecting journalists in the last 6 years

AMLO

Shock as AP Photo of Shani Louk's Corpse on October 7 Wins 'Picture of the Year' by an American journalism school. Really!

Very disgusting and appalling! To celebrate the crimes of cowardly Barbarians, killers and mass murderers is a very serious failure of judgment!

Just imagine just for one moment you were the parent of this young woman!

Who is this photographer anyway, who had apparently advanced notice or was he part of the cowardly killers and mass murders. Possibly, a war criminal himself? If so, he probably should be indicted! Then he can perhaps explain that he only took these pictures as evidence for the criminal proceedings of these coward killers and mass murderers.

Just see how one of these cowardly Barbarians has his boots on the body of the young woman! Absolutely horrifying!

Shock as AP Photo of Shani Louk's Corpse Wins 'Picture of the Year' Critics reacted in alarm this week after the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri awarded the Associated Press with a “Pictures of the Year” award for photos including an Israeli victim of Hamas.

Photo of slain, mostly naked Jewish woman Hamas paraded in truck on Oct. 7 part of prize-winning images — and outrage erupts

AP Awarded ‘Team Picture Of The Year’ Award Featuring Photo Of Hamas Terrorists Parading Body Of Young Israeli Woman

Team Picture Story of the Year (the original journalism school website)

I do not take pleasure to show this image on my blog!