This takes us back to Assange.

When is a journalist an enemy? Is a journalist an enemy if they talk to your enemy? If they do things that you don't like?

The USA says yes.

The USA, once upon a time being a nation of constitutional laws, was constrained on this question, as the first amendment said "Congress shall make no law respecting ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." which pretty much nailed it.

For that one country. And only if it was acting constitutionally, which it wasn't. What about other Western countries? They were much more fluid, and they are busy arresting and incarcerating journalists.

So we now have a situation in the world where journalists can be killed or incarcerated because the state doesn't like it. If it doesn't like these journalists revealing the truth, it can simply claim they are spies, as the USA did with Assange. Or terrorists. Or jihadists.

Who's gonna challenge them? Nobody, pretty much. The entire mainstream media was silent on the taking down of Assange. The entire mainstream media is silent on the deaths of 200 journalists in Palestine. The entire mainstream media will be silent as their own are arrested and taken into custody.

History has a name for this - fascism. It has a novel called 1984, now better referred to as a documentary. Or a training manual.

Here we are. We arrived.