Another casualty of the intensifying global war on dissident reporters, and truth in general

MARK CRISPIN MILLER JAN 12, 2024      READ

RT having just reported that Gonzalo Lira—the Chilean-American journalist who had been highly critical of Ukraine’s government—has died in the Ukrainian prison where he was held (and, according to his family, tortured), I did a quick search to see what other outlets have reported Lira’s death.

Though some may report it later, or in the days to come, as of right now none has, as far as I can tell. What’s up there now is dated propaganda, jeering Lira for his stance against Zelensky’s government, just as “our free press” has jeered the dissidents on every front throughout the “COVID crisis” (of which the Ukraine/Russia melodrama was a part, until it was eclipsed by Gaza/Israel). Here’s a good example of such state-backed slander, from the aptly-named Daily Beast: