Minutes of a Monday #73
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Brain Food > Witnesses to War
“The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has been tracking the war's death toll while also shining a light on restrictions to press freedom and attempting to hold those responsible to account.
Towards the end of December 2023, the CPJ conducted a major analysis that concluded that more journalists had been killed in the first 10 weeks of this war than in any other single country in an entire year. Earlier this month, CPJ and several other press freedom and human rights groups called on US President Joe Biden, as Israel’s principal international supporter, to “do more to effectively pursue accountability for journalists killed (...) and to protect and support local and international journalists covering it.” ”
Jodie Ginsberg, President of CPJ, talking to Reuters.
Soul Food
“"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."
JFK, Moon speech, 1962
LOL
Brad Williams gets excited too you know:
Appendix
“Cynical people are widely seen as smarter, but sizable research suggests they actually tend to be dumber. Cynicism is not a sign of intelligence but a substitute for it, a way to shield oneself from betrayal & disappointment without having to do or think.”
#19 from 30 Useful Principles (Autumn edition)
AOB
The ‘Minutes of a Monday Reading List 2023’ - the very first - went out last Friday. In case you missed it you can check it out here.
Mind yourself out there - Niall