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| Hatred Of Journalists On The Rise Workdwide, Watchdog Sez |
| 2018-04-25 |
| My view - if they simply confined their biases to the editorial / opinion pages and refrained from 'fake news' reporting, this wouldn't be a problem. [Yahoo News] - Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders says hostility toward journalists is growing worldwide, often encouraged by political leaders ‐ even in democratic countries. Poorly disguised shot at Trump? Yewbetcha! The group's annual global index of media freedom released Wednesday found an overall rise in animosity toward reporters and a drop in freedoms, notably in former Soviet states but also in countries from the U.S. to the Philippines. What about Turkey? I read far more stories out of that country about Erdogan jailing reporters. Erdogan, by the way, does not merit further mention in this article. The group says many democratically elected leaders "no longer see the media as part of democracy's essential underpinning," singling out U.S. President Donald Trump for his media-bashing. It also notes the recent killings of reporters in EU members Slovakia and Malta. That's because you guys took sides. All Trump did was point this out. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #14 Your right TW. But I'm don't think 'Reporters without Borders' considers those sources legitimate 'journalists' - except perhaps Sharryl Atkisson. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-04-25 23:13 |
| #13 Why do you hate sharks, SPoD? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-04-25 23:13 |
| #12 When you get to the point that 100% of the people think journalists are either a good source of protein or a waste of oxygen, I'd say it's tapped out. Of course, the media would say that hatred of them has stabilized at 100%. I think we should have a white shark tournament where the only bait allowed is a NYT reporter or editor. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-25 18:17 |
| #11 Again the overuse of words like "hatred" and "animosity." I don't have either one of those things for journalists. I have some really negative feelings about professional liars, manipulators and hypocrites, then. Maybe it's just me. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-25 15:50 |
| #10 Again the overuse of words like "hatred" and "animosity." I don't have either one of those things for journalists. But I certainly do not believe them, and I certainly don't think they are very intelligent. For fairly obvious reasons. |
| Posted by: Tom 2018-04-25 13:31 |
| #9 Well, I hated journalists since Intifada I. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-25 12:04 |
| #8 Remember when the journalists agitated to have the US President make an executive order banning the using of our intelligence officers using journalism as a cover? Let peasants like businessmen be suspected, journalists are special snowflakes that must be protected. Self-righteous jackasses... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-04-25 11:05 |
| #7 Even if the tried to keep their biases to the editorials they would still impact all the choices about what and what not to report. Then there is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-04-25 10:58 |
| #6 #4 A free and balanced media ...We no longer have that. Sure we do, CrazyFool. The balance merely is not within the mainstream, professional press. The balance is in Breitbart, WND, Sharryl Atkisson, etc, including here at Rantburg.com. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-25 10:07 |
| #5 On the rise? Always been there with those among the authoritarians and totalitarians. The interesting thing now is the 'unwashed masses' have begun to hate those who operate the Legacy Infortainment Enterprises (LIEs). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-04-25 10:06 |
| #4 A free and balanced media is essential to a democracy (or republic). We no longer have that. Far more often than not the media outlets are simply thinly disguised propaganda outlets of the Democrat-Socialist party. That especially includes Reporters Without Borders. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-04-25 09:50 |
| #3 It also helps a lot to not have journalists like Jim Acosta and April Ryan make public statements that insult the intelligence of nearly every U.S. citizen. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-04-25 09:45 |
| #2 I assume every journalist is a liar, traitor, subhuman and an enemy of humanity until proven otherwise. I think there's like 5 who have managed to get out of that classification. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-04-25 09:42 |
| #1 I don't hate journalists. I hate liars. I didn't decide to make those two circles on the Venn Diagram overlap 99.997%... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-04-25 09:15 |