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2nd Panama-Paper Journalist assasinated causing government crisis in Slovakia
| >>172779
The murder of Ján Kuciak is causing a government crisis in Slovakie, where he investigated. The slovak president Andrej Kiska requested new elections, while inside the government, which refuses to Kiskas request, voices rise to fire at least the current minister of the interior.
| I feel like we are back in '89
| Investigative journalism.
I am sorry for the brave guys who loose their lives for this, yet I think this is something that needs to be done by police. Or some justice investigative entity. Journalism does not cut it and will always remain 'let us do some money with revealing gossip and bug other peoples private lives'. At the same league with the paparazzi scum.
| >>172934
The Panama-Papers were not about boulevard news and gossip. They show how a global network of people with money and power betray society with a lot of criminal energy. This includes also elected representatives of democracys as people that work in executive and legislative.
Doing Investigations, which can also mean to just research tons of texts, should of course not be exclusive to institutions that of course also may be involved into criminal actions.
| >>173135
Then you admit the matter to be beyond journalism for you are discussing justice and corruption in international scales. Which then will lead to discussions which entities decide right from wrong.
I am playing devil advocate here, the point being that if journalism alone is involved, it will remain in the ballpark of sticking noses in other peoples affairs. If such high risks and stakes are on the table, is also better to involve the appropriate powers to deal with it.
| >>174306
You're missing the point. What's right or wrong is a question that only can be answered subjective.
And again, on your >sticking the noses in other people affairs
Well, this is not about people which affairs are of common interest due to their privileged and btw. well paid positions. At the same time people with lower income are much more transparent to big companys (as customers or employees) and governments. Free and independent Journalism can balance this inequality.
| >>174601
>this is about people which affairs are of common interest due to their privileged and btw. well paid positions.
| >>174601 Subjective as they might be, we as a society have agreed on how is that decided and by whom. Either that, or be prepared for self justice and general social dissent.
The world is a shitty place and reality sucks. High risks can surely yield high gains, but also disastrous failures. You can not have one without the other.
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| http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43202124
After the assassination of the investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta the 27 year old slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiance were found murdered in the morning of 26 February.
Like Daphne Caruana Galizia, he also was involved in investigations of the so called "Panama-Papers", which revealed international corruption by and ties between politicians, criminals, and leading people from the private economic sector.