HATRED OF JOURNALISTS TURNING TO VIOLENCE, WATCHDOG WARNS. This Agence France Presse article at Yahoo has a photo of Trump at a presser atop it for the obligatory “Orange Man Bad” vibe, but note this:

The period since President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 has been one of the “American journalism community’s darkest moments”, the report added.

It linked the president’s “notorious anti-press rhetoric” with “terrifying harassment” aimed particularly at women and journalists of colour.

– Murder and threats –

“Never before have US journalists been subjected to so many death threats or turned so often to private security firms for protection,” it added.

“Hatred of the media is now such that a gunman walked into the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, in June and killed four journalists and one other staff member,” the report added.

As Insta-co-blogger Charles Glasser noted at the beginning of the month, “That’s all fine and dandy…except it’s a strawman: The shooter had in fact targeted the staff members over a long-running feud with the newspaper that stemmed over a 2012 defamation lawsuit. Even Reuters was forced to discipline an editor who repeated the talking point.”

Charles’ post was headlined, “Repeat a Lie Often Enough.” And the lie goes on.