Irish Examiner view: Killing of journalists puts democracy under fire

Four female journalists were killed in the last week in Palestine’s West Bank, Chile, and Mexico — where they worked and reported 

Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist for Al Jazeera network, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday, May 11. Picture: Al Jazeera Media Network via AP

A desire to tell the truth and a belief that their work was necessary to bring that truth to the widest possible audience last week cost four journalists their lives.

This spasm of butchery is only a tiny detail in the growing gloom for media freedom in an increasingly authoritarian world.