Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
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Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#2I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#3I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
I'm sure that has made things worse but general animosity between the press and police goes back decades.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#4I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
I'm sure that has made things worse but general animosity between the press and police goes back decades.
Do not dismiss this new horrifying upswing in brutality with hollow generalizations
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#5I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
That, and the journalists are literally there to record evidence of their abuse. Police don't like it too much when you record evidence of them, say, beating a peaceful protester, or forcing a weapon into the hands of someone already pinned to the ground.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#6I think it would show more nuanced sentiment to say, that on 110 occasions journalists ended up caught in aggressive police action since May 28. Current wording would have an implication for many people, that journalists were deliberately chosen as targets.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#7I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
Which in turn was perhaps caused by "the news" going from being mostly journalists to mostly pundits with the rise of mass media.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#8I think it would show more nuanced sentiment to say, that on 110 occasions journalists ended up caught in aggressive police action since May 28. Current wording would have an implication for many people, that journalists were deliberately chosen as targets.
The current wording is correct. The journalists are in fact being deliberately chosen as targets.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#9I just want to say that we have to do the things necessary to differentiate ourselves from places like China or Saudi Arabia. Nothing is implicit.
Re: Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
#10I think it would show more nuanced sentiment to say, that on 110 occasions journalists ended up caught in aggressive police action since May 28. Current wording would have an implication for many people, that journalists were deliberately chosen as targets.
Watching the videos posted online it certainly seems that the journalists were chosen as targets. At a bare minumum the police knew they were press (given that they are wearing badges indicating as such, often holding them above their head) and proceeded anyway.