MEAA staff and members will join a vigil at ABC Southbank in Melbourne at 12.30pm today for ABC colleague Roshdi Sarraj & the other 31 journalists & media workers killed in the Gaza conflict. #MEAAmedia #pressfreedom #endimpunity pic.twitter.com/1kproBVZwX
— MEAA (@withMEAA) October 31, 2023
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Did we know this? An ABC journalist death?
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Thats pretty insane that 31 journalists have died. 
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This job can’t worth loosing your life for. Get them out of there.
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And that is why I said earlier in this thread that they need to be safe but some clown thet replied to my post doesn’t understand that they are also lives that are being threatened . Yes they are doing their job but they still need to be safe , so my concerns for the journalists are valid .
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He was from Al Jazeera - “a colleague”.
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They don’t need to be there at all. It simply isn’t worth more lives lost.
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There’s inherent risk in a lot of jobs. Yes, entering a war zone as a journalist is one. But there’s also a need for the public to see up close what is going on and get the story across. Reporting from a war zone would be a career peak for many.
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Former ABC Middle East east correspondent Eric Tlozek has returned to the Jerusalem bureau, likely replacing Nick Dole.
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UPDATE 10/11
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lol
Also, the intellectuals and activist elite are not average Australians. Regardless of class background, if you went to university, hold a white-collar job and live in an affluent suburb you are part of the elite. Most of Australia’s political discourse is conducted between different factions of this elite. They are a minority that are bigger than they used to be before Whitlam and Hawke, but they are still a minority.
UPDATE 28/11
Re: The MEAA’s descent into drongo-ism up there:
Hamas and Fatah/the PLO are terrorist and Pan Arabist Islamic supremacist organisations. Why is any one ever believing any figures or statements or narratives provided by them - or ordinary Palestinians who actually are under their jackboot?
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UPDATE
Surely today’s news of Australia changing it stance to support a ceasefire warrants a headline. Why so many cat-up-a-tree local stories taking priority?
