The War on Journalism

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RSF Index 2018: Hatred of journalism threatens democracies

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[AvgGuyIA]

Supporting or reporting?

I wrote supporting.

Rap Sheet: ***603** Acts of Media-Approved Violence and Harassment Against Trump Supporters | Breitbart

I would disagree because I am not seeing “media approval” despite Brietbart’s claims.

witholding reporting of these crimes is media approval.

 

[Correll]

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I'm sure that the saudis can say that this reporter broke some law too. Hell, if they knew you wanted it, I'm sure they could have provided video of him admitting he broke the law.

Was Tommy murdered? Was he abducted from another country? Are you saying journalists should not be bound by any laws?

He was jailed for reporting.

Your desire to dodge this, is good. It shows that on some level, you know this is a huge problem for your war mongering on this issue.

Actually no, that wasn’t why he was jailed (here is a hint for you, what he was reporting had been and was being reported).

I'm well aware of the lame ass excuses of the government for jailing the reporter.


I'm sure the Saudi Government has a reason or two for their actions too. YOu going to swallow them without question too?

So far they haven’t offered up any.

Robinson is still alive, unharmed, “reporting”....and you ignore the fact that what he reported was already reported...and those folks didn’t get put in jail.

1. They know that you won't give them the save blind gullibility that you give your fellow lefties. Which was my point, of course.

2. Oh, so that he was eventually released from prison makes it ok? Cool. So, if Trump imprisons some reporters, just for a few weeks, and then releases them, you going to give him a pass too?

 

[Correll]

Hatred of Journalism threatens democracies.

RSF Index 2018: Hatred of journalism threatens democracies

The climate of hatred is steadily more visible in the Index, which evaluates the level of press freedom in 180 countries each year. Hostility towards the media from political leaders is no longer limited to authoritarian countries such as Turkey (down two at 157th) and Egypt (161st), where “media-phobia” is now so pronounced that journalists are routinely accused of terrorism and all those who don’t offer loyalty are arbitrarily imprisoned.

More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion. The United States, the country of the First Amendment, has fallen again in the Index under Donald Trump, this time two places to 45th. A media-bashing enthusiast, Trump has referred to reporters “enemies of the people,” the term once used by Joseph Stalin.

The line separating verbal violence from physical violence is dissolving. In the Philippines (down six at 133rd), President Rodrigo Duterte not only constantly insults reporters but has also warned them that they “are not exempted from assassination.” In India (down two at 138th), hate speech targeting journalists is shared and amplified on social networks, often by troll armies in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pay. In each of these countries, at least four journalists were gunned down in cold blood in the space of a year.


Verbal violence from politicians against the media is also on the rise in Europe, although it is the region that respects press freedom most. In the Czech Republic (down 11 at 34th), President Milos Zeman turned up at a press conference with a fake Kalashnikov inscribed with the words “for journalists.” In Slovakia, (down 10 at 27th), then Prime Minister Robert Fico called journalists “filthy anti-Slovak prostitutes” and “idiotic hyenas.” A Slovak reporter, Ján Kuciak, was shot dead in his home in February 2018, just four months after another European journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed by a targeted car-bombing in Malta (down 18 at 65th).

The unleashing of hatred towards journalists is one of the worst threats to democracies,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “Political leaders who fuel loathing for reporters bear heavy responsibility because they undermine the concept of public debate based on facts instead of propaganda. To dispute the legitimacy of journalism today is to play with extremely dangerous political fire.”

The media in this country has declared war on the President and the REpublicans.



Whining about Trump fighting back makes libs look like babies. Spoiled babies not used to not getting their own way, all the time.

"The media in this country has declared war on..." tiny trump.

So it's ok to kill them?

No, but it is certainly ok to call them out of their bullshit and to treat them with the utter contempt they deserve.


Which is all the President or I, have done.


So, save your panic mongering for libs who are dishonest enough to pretend to believe it.

 

[Tehon]

When journalists push lies, half-truths, withhold truth and try to overthrow governments, perhaps they should fear for their lives until they start reporting responsibly. At minimum, they don't deserve FOTP protections anymore. Hear that CNN, MSNBC, SNL, Daily Show, etc.?

This ^ should be a dire warning for the future of America. It's surely coming.

 

[Mac1958]

The media brought this on itself by being biased. I was in it for about 18 years, and I was guilty of it myself. To make it worse, journalists are taught pretty much immediately that theirs is some kind of sacred profession that cannot be challenged or questioned.

But then, as usual, the Right has taken it too far. Challenging & questioning is one thing, and a very positive thing. But assuming that everything is "fake" is another. If they don't like it, it can only be a lie. That's just simplistic and terribly counter-productive.

We have completely lost the capacity for rational, critical thinking, and this is what it looks like: Fucking chaos.
.

 

[MisterBeale]

How to identify CIA limited hangout?

 

[Darkwind]

The abduction and likely death of Kashoggi. A surprisingly sycophantic attitude from an American President known for cosying to autocrats. It must be “rogue assassins”...or something. Or something.

To abduct a person from a consulate on another nation’s territory...against that nation’s laws, represents a new and much more dangerous assault on journalistic freedom. In fact...I think it is unheard of. And it puts the US in a tricky position. Saudi Arabia is our ally. But a free media and the rights of journalists to report, and to hold their governments responsible has long been an underpinning of American Democracy. We have censored allies before for bad behavior...withheld sales for example.

We are witnessing a demise journalistic freedomof around the world journalists are being threatened, killed and jailed for trying to do their jobs. They depend on bigger more powerful countries to look out for their rights should authoritarian states come down on them.

If we kow tow to the Saudi’s over this, what does that tell other dictators and what does it say to our values?

Has someone been committing acts of journalism behind our backs?

I haven't seen an act of journalism in this country, or the world, in about 20 years.

 

[Claudette]

The abduction and likely death of Kashoggi. A surprisingly sycophantic attitude from an American President known for cosying to autocrats. It must be “rogue assassins”...or something. Or something.

To abduct a person from a consulate on another nation’s territory...against that nation’s laws, represents a new and much more dangerous assault on journalistic freedom. In fact...I think it is unheard of. And it puts the US in a tricky position. Saudi Arabia is our ally. But a free media and the rights of journalists to report, and to hold their governments responsible has long been an underpinning of American Democracy. We have censored allies before for bad behavior...withheld sales for example.

We are witnessing a demise journalistic freedomof around the world journalists are being threatened, killed and jailed for trying to do their jobs. They depend on bigger more powerful countries to look out for their rights should authoritarian states come down on them.

If we kow tow to the Saudi’s over this, what does that tell other dictators and what does it say to our values?

Muslims live to kill other people

I agree. They kill other death cult members all the time.

If the way this idiot was killed is true then it doesn't surprise me at all.

Its what the death cult does.

 

[Claudette]

The abduction and likely death of Kashoggi. A surprisingly sycophantic attitude from an American President known for cosying to autocrats. It must be “rogue assassins”...or something. Or something.

To abduct a person from a consulate on another nation’s territory...against that nation’s laws, represents a new and much more dangerous assault on journalistic freedom. In fact...I think it is unheard of. And it puts the US in a tricky position. Saudi Arabia is our ally. But a free media and the rights of journalists to report, and to hold their governments responsible has long been an underpinning of American Democracy. We have censored allies before for bad behavior...withheld sales for example.

We are witnessing a demise journalistic freedomof around the world journalists are being threatened, killed and jailed for trying to do their jobs. They depend on bigger more powerful countries to look out for their rights should authoritarian states come down on them.

If we kow tow to the Saudi’s over this, what does that tell other dictators and what does it say to our values?

Has someone been committing acts of journalism behind our backs?

I haven't seen an act of journalism in this country, or the world, in about 20 years.

I agree. These so called journalists are to busy trying to make the news. They don't have time to report it.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Hatred of Journalism threatens democracies.

RSF Index 2018: Hatred of journalism threatens democracies

The climate of hatred is steadily more visible in the Index, which evaluates the level of press freedom in 180 countries each year. Hostility towards the media from political leaders is no longer limited to authoritarian countries such as Turkey (down two at 157th) and Egypt (161st), where “media-phobia” is now so pronounced that journalists are routinely accused of terrorism and all those who don’t offer loyalty are arbitrarily imprisoned.

More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion. The United States, the country of the First Amendment, has fallen again in the Index under Donald Trump, this time two places to 45th. A media-bashing enthusiast, Trump has referred to reporters “enemies of the people,” the term once used by Joseph Stalin.

The line separating verbal violence from physical violence is dissolving. In the Philippines (down six at 133rd), President Rodrigo Duterte not only constantly insults reporters but has also warned them that they “are not exempted from assassination.” In India (down two at 138th), hate speech targeting journalists is shared and amplified on social networks, often by troll armies in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pay. In each of these countries, at least four journalists were gunned down in cold blood in the space of a year.


Verbal violence from politicians against the media is also on the rise in Europe, although it is the region that respects press freedom most. In the Czech Republic (down 11 at 34th), President Milos Zeman turned up at a press conference with a fake Kalashnikov inscribed with the words “for journalists.” In Slovakia, (down 10 at 27th), then Prime Minister Robert Fico called journalists “filthy anti-Slovak prostitutes” and “idiotic hyenas.” A Slovak reporter, Ján Kuciak, was shot dead in his home in February 2018, just four months after another European journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed by a targeted car-bombing in Malta (down 18 at 65th).

The unleashing of hatred towards journalists is one of the worst threats to democracies,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “Political leaders who fuel loathing for reporters bear heavy responsibility because they undermine the concept of public debate based on facts instead of propaganda. To dispute the legitimacy of journalism today is to play with extremely dangerous political fire.”

Who told you this....the press?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Trump has had several lame comments on this subject to be sure. On the other hand, ruining the economy over one person seems a pretty high price to pay. I find most journalists, are not. They are socialists with a mission. It would be great if we had journalists.

How many journalists do you actually know?

None....I dont hangout with leftist.

 

[Tehon]

How to identify CIA limited hangout?

I don't think so.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The media brought this on itself by being biased. I was in it for about 18 years, and I was guilty of it myself. To make it worse, journalists are taught pretty much immediately that theirs is some kind of sacred profession that cannot be challenged or questioned.

But then, as usual, the Right has taken it too far. Challenging & questioning is one thing, and a very positive thing. But assuming that everything is "fake" is another. If they don't like it, it can only be a lie. That's just simplistic and terribly counter-productive.

We have completely lost the capacity for rational, critical thinking, and this is what it looks like: Fucking chaos.
.

I find it completely understandable why we dont trust journalist.
They proven time and time again they are biased,why would we trust them?
They made their bed....fuck em.

 

[Pogo]

Trump has had several lame comments on this subject to be sure. On the other hand, ruining the economy over one person seems a pretty high price to pay. I find most journalists, are not. They are socialists with a mission. It would be great if we had journalists.

How many journalists do you actually know?

None....I dont hangout with leftist.

Or with people who speak English apparently either. Or should I say with person who speak English in whatever that language you just wrote is? You see, in English we generally form plurals with the letter S. It's a French thing.

Had you been familiar with English you might be able to read, and had you been able to read you might notice that post wasn't responding to you at all, as it doesn't have your name on it. Does it.

I guess it's related to the war on journalism that literacy is a lost art. Those who wish to control the News count on that. That, and the dearth of critical thinking skills. Which come to think of it isn't a "skill" at all; it's a natural process, as long as one isn't enslaved to the Cult of Ignorance.

>> It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakewspeare and Milton as ungrammatically as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people flocking to a Presidential candidate who invented a version of the English language that was all his own and that has been the despair of satirists ever since. George Wallace, in his speeches, had, as one of his prime targets, the "pointy-headed professor," and with that a roar of approval that phrase was always greeted by his pointy-headed audience.

... America's right to know involves something we might express vaguely as "what's going on." America has the right to know "what's going on" in the courts, in Congress, in the White House, in industrial councils, in the regulatory agencies, in labor unions --- in the seats of the mighty, generally.
Very good, I'm for that, too. But how are you going to let people know all that?

Grant us a free press, and a corps of independent and fearless investigative reporters, comes the cry, and we can be sure that the people will know.

Yes, provided they can read! << --- Isaac Asimov (who taught himself to read English at age 5)

​

So there we are, full circle. Literacy is a lost art. As long as that's the case the Rumpian-Riefenstahlian pogrom against reality will find fertile fields. What remains unanswered is why anyone would willingly lie back and allow themselves to be so plowed.

​

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Trump has had several lame comments on this subject to be sure. On the other hand, ruining the economy over one person seems a pretty high price to pay. I find most journalists, are not. They are socialists with a mission. It would be great if we had journalists.

How many journalists do you actually know?

None....I dont hangout with leftist.

Or with people who speak English apparently either. Or should I say with person who speak English in whatever that language you just wrote is? You see, in English we generally form plurals with the letter S. It's a French thing.

Had you been familiar with English you might be able to read, and had you been able to read you might notice that post wasn't responding to you at all, as it doesn't have your name on it. Does it.

I guess it's related to the war on journalism that literacy is a lost art. Those who wish to control the News count on that. That, and the dearth of critical thinking skills. Which come to think of it isn't a "skill" at all; it's a natural process, as long as one isn't enslaved to the Cult of Ignorance.

>> It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakewspeare and Milton as ungrammatically as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people flocking to a Presidential candidate who invented a version of the English language that was all his own and that has been the despair of satirists ever since. George Wallace, in his speeches, had, as one of his prime targets, the "pointy-headed professor," and with that a roar of approval that phrase was always greeted by his pointy-headed audience.

... America's right to know involves something we might express vaguely as "what's going on." America has the right to know "what's going on" in the courts, in Congress, in the White House, in industrial councils, in the regulatory agencies, in labor unions --- in the seats of the mighty, generally.
Very good, I'm for that, too. But how are you going to let people know all that?

Grant us a free press, and a corps of independent and fearless investigative reporters, comes the cry, and we can be sure that the people will know.

Yes, provided they can read! << --- Isaac Asimov (who taught himself to read English at age 5)

​

So there we are, full circle. Literacy is a lost art. As long as that's the case the Rumpian-Riefenstahlian pogrom against reality will find fertile fields. What remains unanswered is why anyone would willingly lie back and allow themselves to be so plowed.

​

You're welcome.....
Leftist definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

 

[BookShaka]

The abduction and likely death of Kashoggi. A surprisingly sycophantic attitude from an American President known for cosying to autocrats. It must be “rogue assassins”...or something. Or something.

To abduct a person from a consulate on another nation’s territory...against that nation’s laws, represents a new and much more dangerous assault on journalistic freedom. In fact...I think it is unheard of. And it puts the US in a tricky position. Saudi Arabia is our ally. But a free media and the rights of journalists to report, and to hold their governments responsible has long been an underpinning of American Democracy. We have censored allies before for bad behavior...withheld sales for example.

We are witnessing a demise journalistic freedomof around the world journalists are being threatened, killed and jailed for trying to do their jobs. They depend on bigger more powerful countries to look out for their rights should authoritarian states come down on them.

If we kow tow to the Saudi’s over this, what does that tell other dictators and what does it say to our values?

Republicans do NOT care about the 'free press'

Republicans have demonstrated the only thing they care about is MONEY.

Republicans have no humanity, no morality, and no soul.

Republicans can all go to Hell AFAIC.

Awesome representation of the “party of tolerance” LOL. You don’t have the brain power to understand why you’re wrong. Thinking those with different opinions are the enemy is very fascist of you. Have fun being your own worst enemy, child.

 

[Pogo]

Trump has had several lame comments on this subject to be sure. On the other hand, ruining the economy over one person seems a pretty high price to pay. I find most journalists, are not. They are socialists with a mission. It would be great if we had journalists.

How many journalists do you actually know?

None....I dont hangout with leftist.

Or with people who speak English apparently either. Or should I say with person who speak English in whatever that language you just wrote is? You see, in English we generally form plurals with the letter S. It's a French thing.

Had you been familiar with English you might be able to read, and had you been able to read you might notice that post wasn't responding to you at all, as it doesn't have your name on it. Does it.

I guess it's related to the war on journalism that literacy is a lost art. Those who wish to control the News count on that. That, and the dearth of critical thinking skills. Which come to think of it isn't a "skill" at all; it's a natural process, as long as one isn't enslaved to the Cult of Ignorance.

>> It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakewspeare and Milton as ungrammatically as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people flocking to a Presidential candidate who invented a version of the English language that was all his own and that has been the despair of satirists ever since. George Wallace, in his speeches, had, as one of his prime targets, the "pointy-headed professor," and with that a roar of approval that phrase was always greeted by his pointy-headed audience.

... America's right to know involves something we might express vaguely as "what's going on." America has the right to know "what's going on" in the courts, in Congress, in the White House, in industrial councils, in the regulatory agencies, in labor unions --- in the seats of the mighty, generally.
Very good, I'm for that, too. But how are you going to let people know all that?

Grant us a free press, and a corps of independent and fearless investigative reporters, comes the cry, and we can be sure that the people will know.

Yes, provided they can read! << --- Isaac Asimov (who taught himself to read English at age 5)

​

So there we are, full circle. Literacy is a lost art. As long as that's the case the Rumpian-Riefenstahlian pogrom against reality will find fertile fields. What remains unanswered is why anyone would willingly lie back and allow themselves to be so plowed.

​

You're welcome.....
Leftist definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

Your own link:

>>
1.
a person whose political position.... (<< "a person = SINGULAR)

Ex
Meanwhile the affluent leftist seeks a liberal society << (<< THE = SINGULAR)

What you wrote above was collective-plural.

When you write in English your verb has to agree in number with your object.

You CANNOT "hang out with leftist". You CAN "hang out with a leftist" or "hang out with the leftist" if it's a singular, ---- OR, you can "hang out with leftists" if you want the plural.

You CANNOT mix them up. Learn how to English.

Cheeses Christ you knuckledraggers monger Ignorance as if it had value. You just reconfirmed my point that literacy is a lost art. The question is why your ilk deliberately loses it.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Trump has had several lame comments on this subject to be sure. On the other hand, ruining the economy over one person seems a pretty high price to pay. I find most journalists, are not. They are socialists with a mission. It would be great if we had journalists.

How many journalists do you actually know?

None....I dont hangout with leftist.

Or with people who speak English apparently either. Or should I say with person who speak English in whatever that language you just wrote is? You see, in English we generally form plurals with the letter S. It's a French thing.

Had you been familiar with English you might be able to read, and had you been able to read you might notice that post wasn't responding to you at all, as it doesn't have your name on it. Does it.

I guess it's related to the war on journalism that literacy is a lost art. Those who wish to control the News count on that. That, and the dearth of critical thinking skills. Which come to think of it isn't a "skill" at all; it's a natural process, as long as one isn't enslaved to the Cult of Ignorance.

>> It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, ”America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakewspeare and Milton as ungrammatically as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people flocking to a Presidential candidate who invented a version of the English language that was all his own and that has been the despair of satirists ever since. George Wallace, in his speeches, had, as one of his prime targets, the "pointy-headed professor," and with that a roar of approval that phrase was always greeted by his pointy-headed audience.

... America's right to know involves something we might express vaguely as "what's going on." America has the right to know "what's going on" in the courts, in Congress, in the White House, in industrial councils, in the regulatory agencies, in labor unions --- in the seats of the mighty, generally.
Very good, I'm for that, too. But how are you going to let people know all that?

Grant us a free press, and a corps of independent and fearless investigative reporters, comes the cry, and we can be sure that the people will know.

Yes, provided they can read! << --- Isaac Asimov (who taught himself to read English at age 5)

​

So there we are, full circle. Literacy is a lost art. As long as that's the case the Rumpian-Riefenstahlian pogrom against reality will find fertile fields. What remains unanswered is why anyone would willingly lie back and allow themselves to be so plowed.

​

You're welcome.....
Leftist definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

Your own link:

>>
1.
a person whose political position.... (<< "a person = SINGULAR)

Ex
Meanwhile the affluent leftist seeks a liberal society << (<< THE = SINGULAR)

What you wrote above was collective-plural.

When you write in English your verb has to agree in number with your object.

You CANNOT "hang out with leftist". You CAN "hang out with a leftist" or "hang out with the leftist" if it's a singular, ---- OR, you can "hang out with leftists" if you want the plural.

You CANNOT mix them up. Learn how to English.

Cheeses Christ you knuckledraggers monger Ignorance as if it had value. You just reconfirmed my point that literacy is a lost art. The question is why your ilk deliberately loses it.

Oh fer fukes sake!!
Is that what has your panties all twisted?

 

[Coyote]

Hatred of Journalism threatens democracies.

RSF Index 2018: Hatred of journalism threatens democracies

The climate of hatred is steadily more visible in the Index, which evaluates the level of press freedom in 180 countries each year. Hostility towards the media from political leaders is no longer limited to authoritarian countries such as Turkey (down two at 157th) and Egypt (161st), where “media-phobia” is now so pronounced that journalists are routinely accused of terrorism and all those who don’t offer loyalty are arbitrarily imprisoned.

More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion. The United States, the country of the First Amendment, has fallen again in the Index under Donald Trump, this time two places to 45th. A media-bashing enthusiast, Trump has referred to reporters “enemies of the people,” the term once used by Joseph Stalin.

The line separating verbal violence from physical violence is dissolving. In the Philippines (down six at 133rd), President Rodrigo Duterte not only constantly insults reporters but has also warned them that they “are not exempted from assassination.” In India (down two at 138th), hate speech targeting journalists is shared and amplified on social networks, often by troll armies in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pay. In each of these countries, at least four journalists were gunned down in cold blood in the space of a year.


Verbal violence from politicians against the media is also on the rise in Europe, although it is the region that respects press freedom most. In the Czech Republic (down 11 at 34th), President Milos Zeman turned up at a press conference with a fake Kalashnikov inscribed with the words “for journalists.” In Slovakia, (down 10 at 27th), then Prime Minister Robert Fico called journalists “filthy anti-Slovak prostitutes” and “idiotic hyenas.” A Slovak reporter, Ján Kuciak, was shot dead in his home in February 2018, just four months after another European journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was killed by a targeted car-bombing in Malta (down 18 at 65th).

The unleashing of hatred towards journalists is one of the worst threats to democracies,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “Political leaders who fuel loathing for reporters bear heavy responsibility because they undermine the concept of public debate based on facts instead of propaganda. To dispute the legitimacy of journalism today is to play with extremely dangerous political fire.”

. When journalists push lies, half-truths, withhold truth and try to overthrow governments, perhaps they should fear for their lives until they start reporting responsibly. At minimum, they don't deserve FOTP protections anymore. Hear that CNN, MSNBC, SNL, Daily Show, etc.?

I think thst is primarily your bias speaking . You dont want journalists that counter your views and and political bias'. You only oppose liberal views and media. How intetesting. The role of media is to provide a check on government abuse, corruption and the Trump Administration is not immune. Your idea of reporting responsibly is what? Echoing your views? Cone on. We havea wealth of media now...conservative, liberal, in between. Supporting violence towards them is dangerous. Do you actuslly want the government to be beyond scrutiny? Or only the Trump admin?