{"id":3588,"date":"2016-05-11T05:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:07:23","slug":"jamal-khashoggi-gauri-lankesh-thankless-life-and-death-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Jamal Khashoggi, and the Thankless Life (and Death) of Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">O<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n October 2, journalist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/dissent-is-dangerous-what-unites-jamal-khashoggi-and-alok-verma\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, and never walked out. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reporter, a longtime critic of the monarchy in Saudi Arabia, was murdered inside the building, and nearly a month after the incident, Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman\u2019s regime is still denying any culpability. It\u2019s a stark reminder of how numb society has become when it comes to acts of violence against<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/taimur-journalist-bollywood-mental-breakdown\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> journalists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> engaged in one of the world\u2019s most dangerous professions.<\/span>\n\nYesterday, Time Magazine named Khashoggi, along with other journalists who faced persecution for their work, as their persons of the year in 2018, in an issue titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/11\/business\/media\/jamal-khashoggi-person-of-the-year-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Guardians and the War on Truth<\/em><\/a>. The issue pays tribute to the many sacrifices and tribulations that journalists endure in their line of work, an ordeal that does not get its fair share of sympathy from the general public, which benefits from the fruits of their labours every day.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42906\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1544590927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption><p>A man holds a poster of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest organized by members of the Turkish-Arabic Media Association at the entrance to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s consulate on October 8, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p><p>\nPhoto by Chris McGrath\/Getty Images<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Informing the public at the cost of their personal safety and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/doodle\/donald-trump-usa-muslim-ban-statue-of-liberty\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">liberty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, journalists walk a razor\u2019s edge every time they speak truth to power. Last year, a national panic broke out over the security of the Aadhaar database, and cursory Google search reveals evidence of large-scale mismanagement of data, painstakingly catalogued by independent and media house-backed journalists. At what cost was this information gathered? Rachna Khaira, the journalist for the Tribune who discovered the breach, briefly faced a criminal charge for forgery and other offences, liable to jail time of 30 years.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neha Dixit reported on RSS workers assisting in child <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/love-sonia-review-tabrez-noorani-sex-trafficking-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trafficking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2016, and was consequently charged with criminal intent to cause disharmony among religious groups, an offence that can get her five years in prison. There are hundreds of instances where our journalists have received swift and bitter backlash for doing their job in the last few years. In 2017, India\u2019s position on the Press Freedom Index dropped by three points \u2013 that is below Afghanistan and Myanmar, one a conflict zone and the other in the middle of a genocide.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This doesn\u2019t mean we haven\u2019t earned that low ranking. Under the reign of Narendra Modi, who in his four-year tenure has not held <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsminute.com\/article\/modi-not-held-press-meet-last-4-years-says-manmohan-singh-bluru-80818\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a single press conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the PMO has no press advisor. Instead, there is a senior aide of the PM who stands at the central hall of parliament where earlier the press would meet with the ministers, taking down the names of BJP officials who speak to journalists. He doesn\u2019t take press correspondents to his foreign trips, and chooses Twitter over traditional news outlets to broadcast information. Our government seems to consider the fourth pillar of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/theres-a-dhokla-in-my-hand-some-say-its-a-veritable-beauty-an-architectural-marvel-it-looks-structurally-stable-but-is-soft-and-gives-from-the-core-it-makes-the-eye-o\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">democracy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> absolutely unnecessary, except as a means to broadcast their own ideologies. This climate of disrespect and disregard for the press is peaking globally, with Trump leading the pack (of course) with his inane comments about how \u201cthe press is the number one enemy of the people.\u201d <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">When Gauri Lankesh was shot, my aspiring journalist friend\u2019s mother told her to find a safer profession.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What effect does that have on ground? Just look at the murders of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/gauri-lankesh-bengaluru-murder-journalist-bjp-activist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gauri Lankesh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Shujaat Bukhari, who were killed by the same evil that struck down Khashoggi \u2013 the rising animosity toward the press by ruling administrations.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s worse than our increasing disregard for the freedom of press, is the fact that we continue to enjoy the benefits of a free press \u2013 but don\u2019t want to sign up for the fight that is required to preserve it. We are able to hold all these elegant online debates, verify and counter-check different sources of information, and display all signs of awareness because we can take the media for granted. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The motto of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the paper that Khashoggi wrote for, is \u201cDemocracy Dies In Darkness\u201d. And indeed it does. It is not surprising that governments everywhere foster a darkness in their dealings when operating against the interests of the people. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/indira-gandhi-assassination-31st-october-1984-anti-sikh-riots\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indira Gandhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> did it during the Emergency, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/putin-russian-president-modi-arms-talk-fitness-challenge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Putin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> did it in Russia, Hitler did it in Germany. Every police state begins by curbing its media. The only difference now is, we, as sentient citizens, are content to wallow in this darkness.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look no further than <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khashoggi\u2019s death. He is the subject of international outrage, but an outrage sadly without fire. Trump has declared that his death is just not worth taking the Saudis to task over and risking the US\u2019 trade deals. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/killed\/2018\/?status=Killed&#038;motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&#038;motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&#038;type%5B%5D=Journalist&#038;start_year=2018&#038;end_year=2018&#038;group_by=location\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">60 journalists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been confirmed dead because of their job and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/imprisoned\/2017\/?status=Imprisoned&#038;start_year=2017&#038;end_year=2017&#038;group_by=location\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">262 journalists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been imprisoned for doing their job in 2017 alone. Statistics though, are tricky things. These<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">figures sound paltry, until you weigh them against how many engineers, doctors, or teachers die on the job. Army men do, and they get protection and benefits for risking their lives. But journalists\u2019 deaths are hushed up, their bodies never found. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/gauri-lankesh-death-anniversary-assassination\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gauri Lankesh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was shot, my aspiring journalist friend\u2019s mother told her to find a safer profession. When I was working at a daily newspaper, an old editor asked me to quit and take my IAS examinations, because journalism is a thankless, bitter job. You\u2019re poorly paid, hated by the government and the people \u2013 yet useful to everyone.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has one of the largest and most expansive media networks, but back during our formative years, we were not taught about the press the way we are taught about the other pillars of democracy. There was no list of famous journalists like there were scientists or inventors. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We actively consume the products of journalism every single day, but we didn\u2019t stir when the press continued to be muffled irrevocably. Perhaps it would do good to remember that no dystopia has a free press. It is in the interest of fundamentalist governments everywhere that we take our journalists for granted \u2013 so maybe it\u2019s time we shouldn\u2019t. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Informing the public at the cost of their personal safety and liberty, journalists walk a razor\u2019s edge. 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