The number of reported journalists who were killed in 2017 was just released. According to the Associated Press's annual "Kill Report", violence and threats against a free press are also skyrocketing.

In its annual "Kill Report," the International Federation of Journalists said that the 81 reporters who were killed lost their lives in targeted killings, car bomb attacks, and crossfire incidents around the world. And, more than 250 journalists were in prison in 2017. But Joe Joseph of The Daily Sheeple believes that the number is perhaps even exponentially under-reported. And what about those who were silenced by threats and erased from social media, like Ben Swann was for looking into PizzaGate?

"The media is supposed to be part of the system of checks and balances," says Joseph accurately. But what we are seeing is media being threatened by corporations with lost advertising revenues should they report on the truth. The mainstream media are the ones who are supposed to "hold the government in check," Joseph continues.