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Same shit, or not? Wait, how many eastern journalist were killed for investigating oligarchs? Probably some.
And how about russia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
Gary Webb Panama Papers Chelsea Manning Julian Assange Edward Snowden Craig Spence
You'll get them booted off the internet and their entire family sent to reeducation camps!!!
The real answer is that we'll never know because they "kill themselves" or have "accidents" and it doesn't go on CIApedia as a journalist murder. Just like the Boeing whistleblowers and the original leaders of Black Lives Matter.
Post-Soviet Russia has absolutely had an organized crime problem. The violence journalists face there strikes me as more reason to celebrate their work rather than censor it.