The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for peace, to reject war and to give voice to the voiceless.

Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    413·
    20 hours ago

    Ok Pope, so where on earth are the most journalists being specifically targeted in military strikes and killed?

    If you actually cared about journalists you would be speaking up already, coward.

    • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      14 hours ago

      If you actually cared about journalists you would be speaking up already, coward.

      Is this not literally what he did though?

      Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        32·
        13 hours ago

        The International Federation of Journalists records that 94 journalists and media workers, including 9 women, have been killed in 2023. Since 7 October, more than one journalist a day has lost their lives during the war in Gaza, a scale and pace of loss of media professionals’ lives without precedent. Publishing ahead of International Human Rights Day, on the 10th December, the IFJ insists that far greater action is required from the international community to safeguard journalists’ lives and hold to account their attackers.

        https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/article/ninety-four-journalists-killed-in-2023-says-ifj

        According to the annual report of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), 2024 was another particularly deadly year for journalists and media professionals. As of 10 December 2024, 104 journalists had been killed worldwide, more than half of them in Gaza, Palestine (55). The IFJ reaffirms its determination to see an International Convention for the Protection of Journalists adopted by the United Nations as a matter of urgency.

        https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/article/104-journalists-killed-this-year-according-to-the-ifj

        That is why Pope Leo XIV would speak directly speak about the Palestinian Genocide if he truly cared about journalism and the protection of it and the people who practice it.

        • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Labelling it ‘Middle East and Arab World’ is so fucking disingenuous when it’s Israeli scum butchering journalists. For decades now.

          I’m directing this at whomever made the diagram specifically. They can fuck off with that misdirection crap.

        • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          10 hours ago

          So, blatant inaccuracies aside, that doesn’t change the fact that he quite literally did speak up about it, well before your toddler-esque “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

          The fact that he said something to begin with is already a step in the right direction. What you’re asking is unrealistic.

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            11·
            9 hours ago

            “if he doesn’t say exactly this then he’s against us” rant.

            I never said this was a binary choice, or that he was against Palestinians, just that this it is cowardly to not mention the genocide where a historic amount of journalists are being killed.

            What you’re asking is unrealistic.

            Why precisely is it unrealistic?

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        22·
        13 hours ago

        Well he found the time to make prouncements about the importance of journalism and protecting journalism, so why not speaking directly to the genocide where the shocking majority of journalists have been killed for the last 3 years at an unprecedented rate and with incredible, naked murderous aims to specifically assassinate journalists?

        Your argument is about priorities and amount of time to devote to them, but it doesn’t even make sense as an argument since the pope ALREADY decided to devote time towards emphasizing how important protecting journalism and a free press is, so fundamentally my argument is one of the way he chose to do the thing, not that he should have done one thing before doing another thing.