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Time announced its “Person of the Year” award on Tuesday, presenting it to a clumsily-named entity called “The Guardians and the War on Truth.”

Jamal Khashoggi was not even a “journalist” in his latter days, but an op-ed contributor to the Washington Post. He did some shoe-leather field reporting in his youth, but since it involved driving around Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden, his hagiographers prefer not to discuss that phase of his career at length. Nor do they enjoy discussing that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supported Islamism, an ideology with very little room for press freedom.

And yet Time rhapsodized over Khashoggi as the avatar of journalism and elevated him to one of the four most important “Guardians of Truth” in 2018 by giving him a solo commemorative cover.

Quotes FROM: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/12/11/time-person-year-venerates-khashoggi-downplays-media-oppression-china/

Will Powers