cheguevara
02-01-2017, 05:33 PM
One of the world’s largest news agencies has instructed its journalists to "practice skills learned" in hostile countries and warzones while reporting on the Trump administration.
In a message to thousands of Reuters reporters and photographers, its editor-in-chief offered advice on how to address the many “challenges” raised by Donald Trump’s presidency.
“It’s not every day that a US President calls journalists ‘among the most dishonest human beings on earth’ or that his chief strategist dubs the media ‘the opposition party’,” Steve Adler wrote.
“We don’t know yet how sharp the Trump administration’s attacks will be over time or to what extent those attacks will be accompanied by legal restrictions on our news-gathering.”
He cited examples as Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Thailand, China, Zimbabwe and Russia, where journalists have been detained, killed, prosecuted, attacked, threatened, censored and denied visas.
Journalists are being advised to become “ever more resourceful” and “worry less about official access”, and not to be intimidated.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-media-dishonest-cnn-new-york-times-concerns-treatment-reuters-iran-turkey-zimbabew-a7557886.html
In a message to thousands of Reuters reporters and photographers, its editor-in-chief offered advice on how to address the many “challenges” raised by Donald Trump’s presidency.
“It’s not every day that a US President calls journalists ‘among the most dishonest human beings on earth’ or that his chief strategist dubs the media ‘the opposition party’,” Steve Adler wrote.
“We don’t know yet how sharp the Trump administration’s attacks will be over time or to what extent those attacks will be accompanied by legal restrictions on our news-gathering.”
He cited examples as Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Thailand, China, Zimbabwe and Russia, where journalists have been detained, killed, prosecuted, attacked, threatened, censored and denied visas.
Journalists are being advised to become “ever more resourceful” and “worry less about official access”, and not to be intimidated.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-media-dishonest-cnn-new-york-times-concerns-treatment-reuters-iran-turkey-zimbabew-a7557886.html