TIME MAG PERSON OF THE YEAR

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Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists ('Guardians') fighting against the' 'war on truth' are TIME's People of the Year 2018.   

"Today, democracy around the world faces its biggest crisis in decades, its foundations undermined by invective from on high and toxins from below, by new technologies that power ancient impulses, by a poisonous cocktail of strongmen and weakening institutions,” TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal said.

Felsenthal added that TIME is recognizing “four journalists and one news organization who have paid a terrible price to seize the challenge of this moment,” as they “are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world.”

The magazine noted that as of Dec. 10, at least 52 journalists have been murdered in 2018.

Washington Post columnist Khashoggi – the first TIME Person of the Year to be awarded after death - was brutally murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Maria Ressa is the editor of a Philippine news website often praised for criticizing the local government.  Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested while attempting to investigate the massacre of Rohingya Muslims. The Capital Gazette in Maryland lost five staffers when a gunman burst into the newsroom.

More: 
http://time.com/person-of-the-year-2018-the-guardians/
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ti...r-on-truth