The Fight Plight

I’ve wrestled with this my entire career: What do journalists do immediately after we’re attacked while lawfully doing our jobs? It takes place on occasion. In this age of Donald Trump, it’s happening more. Our president has turned long-simmering bad feelings about media into boiling hatred. We can consider the reasons in a moment, but the reality is that the nutcases are emboldened as never before to physically attack those who cover news in ways they don’t like.

I am pondering this again thanks to the attack by Greg Gianforte, who ran in a Montana special election to fill the state’s lone House of Representatives seat in Congress. The short version, according to witnesses, is that he didn’t like the persistent questioning he got from someone covering his campaign, and assaulted the newsman, physically body-slamming him while screaming at him.

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