Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

The journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.

The choice by the Norwegian Nobel Committee was widely considered a surprise. Ms. Ressa, of the Philippines, and Mr. Muratov, of Russia, were not on many observers’ short lists for the annual award, one of the most prestigious in the world.

The Nobel committee chose from 329 candidates, one of the largest pools in the 126-year history of the prize. Among those who had been considered favorites for this year included climate change activists, political dissidents and scientists whose work helped fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/08/world/nobel-peace-prize-2021-ressa-muratov

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A surprise but they have operated in environments that have tried to restrict this.

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5:00 AM · Oct 8, 2021

[Champp]

1. US corporate news readers awarded No Bell Toilet Prize

The Committee cited the US corporate media for doing such a lameass, kissass job of FAIL for Ringing the Bell about the treasonous activities against the USA by Republicans and their darkside dark-ops Russian cronies.

The Committee made special note of the US news readers lovely hairstyles.

[lastlib]

2. WHAT??!? TFG didn't get it AGAIN??!?

Commies

even after his boys' PEACEFUL *tour* of the Capitol, with all the cop-hugging and kissing??

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(in case it's needed.......)

[usaf-vet]

3. He doesn't have enough spare change or power to get himself a Nobel. Of course their is no Nobel....

.... for lying, cheating, grifting, treason, sexual harassment, being the dumbest POTUS in history, Or owning one or two golf courses.

He is just plain sh#t out of luck.

He can't even send his red hats to invaded the Nobel Foundation Offices and threaten to hang Nobel.

[George II]

4. Interesting choice(s). I haven't done any research, but is this the first time....

....journalists have won?

BTW, I like to brag about this - the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1993) was in my freshman class. In our sophomore year we all split up according to our disciplines.

PS - with all the jokes about trump, someone on Twitter said trump won the No Balls Pence Prize!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. The first time for 86 years

The prize is the first Nobel Peace Prize for journalists since the German Carl von Ossietzky won it in 1935 for revealing his country's secret post-war rearmament programme.

https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/

Carl von Ossietzky, (born Oct. 3, 1889, Hamburg, Ger.—died May 4, 1938, Berlin), German journalist and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace for 1935.

In 1912 Ossietzky joined the German Peace Society but was conscripted into the army and served throughout World War I. In 1920 he became the society’s secretary in Berlin. Ossietzky helped to found the Nie Wieder Krieg (No More War) organization in 1922 and became editor of the Weltbühne, a liberal political weekly, in 1927, where in a series of articles he unmasked the Reichswehr (German army) leaders’ secret preparations for rearmament. Accused of treason, Ossietzky was sentenced in November 1931 to 18 months’ imprisonment but was granted amnesty in December 1932.

Ossietzky opposed German militarism and political extremism of both the left and the right. By the time Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933, Ossietzky had resumed his editorship, in which he uncompromisingly attacked the Nazis. Steadfastly refusing to flee Germany, he was arrested on Feb. 28, 1933, and sent to Esterwegen-Papenburg concentration camp. After enduring three years of incarceration and torture in the camp, Ossietzky was transferred in May 1936 to a prison hospital in Berlin by the German government, which was growing alarmed at the international publicity his case had begun to attract.

On Nov. 24, 1936, Ossietzky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for 1935. The award was interpreted as an expression of worldwide censure of Nazism. Hitler’s reply was a decree forbidding Germans to accept any Nobel Prize. Though not allowed to leave Germany, Ossietzky was permitted to move to a private sanatorium where, his health broken, he died of illness.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-von-Ossietzky

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Wonderful news. The Smart People Committee sees clearly the anti-democracy forces movement.

American fascist forces being so advanced as to attempt a soft coup was probably most alarming to these Smart People…so very timely recognition and publicity.

Prominent mention in the articles The Prize recipients wrote…the threat of the unification of corporations, information aggregators and corporate media…uniting to sway public sentiment, nudge by nudge, away from democracy…to satisfy their own great mutual financial and political greed.

War and division, in all its forms, is the great profiteer for them

Would never happen in America though….

[mainer]

6. Maria Ressa is a tiny fragile-looking tower of strength

I've met her and she looks so harmless, like your sweet auntie who's too timid to hurt a fly. Which is why she's been underestimated again and again. I love that this Nobel honors the courage of the most unassuming among us.