Following this lengthy declaration of innate racial wrongness, the panellists begin to ruminate on “how best to confront the corrosive force of online hate targeted at journalists.” Being a journalist on Twitter, where the public can talk back, sometimes bluntly, is equated with surviving in an active warzone and other “hostile physical environments,” with women, the majority of the panel, apparently hardest hit. Journalists, we’re told, are “exposed to danger in the digital world” and consequently suffer high rates of “anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic distress.” As a result of being mocked or disagreed with on Twitter. “We don’t want our journalists to be killed,” says Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The term “hate” is used often and expansively – not only to cover threats and vividly abusive emails – “violent messages” – but also mockery and brusque corrections of factual and logical error. Even being referred to by the public as woke is presented as a basis for weeping, a form of psychological torture. Indeed, almost any kind of demurral is framed as an attempt to “silence” the journalists’ self-declared heroism, to deny them their cosmic destiny. And hence, it seems, the imperative to shut down reader-comment sections on national newspaper websites, on grounds that readers are no longer content to confine their feedback to the polite correction of typos. Throughout, the air is heavy with self-elevation, and claims of being scrupulously unbiased and “speaking truth to power” are deployed entirely without irony.
Stars of Canadian news media huddle together, weep, congratulate selves.
The arrogance of believing that they’re actually important…
Drink, you poor depressed souls…it was your career choice.
If they stopped lying about everything they would get some respect. Respect is earned, it is not a gift.
“Hell, where there will be ay wheeping, and a ghnawshing, of tayth! And for the toothless, tayth will be provided…”!!!
Thank you, Dave Allen!
Is there any profession that holds themselves in higher regard, with less justification, than the media? Well, other than politicians of course.
Nurses and teachers.
a huge gathering of civil servants
Government employee presstitutes spending their time on twitter, imagining they are improving the world when in reality they merely have to pass along the latest press release from their favoured government department whom also believe they are improving the world. Now they have a government funded wailing wall to tell us all how very difficult and dangerous (snort) their job is.
I doubt anyone want’s to actually kill journalists. They are most certainly not worth the punishment one may receive for ridding us of these hyenas.
These clowns actually think they are serious reporters when everyone knows they are hacks who have be bought off.
We demand the right to mock them as they mock us with their lies and misinformation as they say.
Then they came for…
https://www.blacklocks.ca/blacklocks-eviction-by-police/
Mustn’t allow the narrative to get fractured…
Rolls eyes, those sniveling whiners get on my last nerve-literally. I don’t want to listen to a single mewling sniveling thing they have to say, professionally or otherwise. They are an echo chamber of ignorance and bias.
“I am the bestest victim here”.
In a civilized society banishment is the only viable option.
In another way,these egocentric fools really are “Changing the world” as they exhaust the patience and exceed the tolerance limits of the adults they live off of.
For it will be a harder colder world ,for Presstitutes,if they achieve the “New and Approved” world they narrate.
And as reality diverges from their sacred narrative,they are exposed ever more rapidly as utter fools.
Fools of the superior nature,so stupid they know not their own inadequacy.
Or so venal they are willing to defy reality to sell the lies of their masters.
And now,when the citizenry will not buy their “product”?
Their fellow travellers from the “civil service” allow the performing monkeys from the elected wings,to “subsidize” the media..
Setting the stage.
For if it is a conflict of interest for Reporters to take government money.
It is an even more massive conflict to pay the media to say what government wants.
Both sending the same message..
“Screw those taxpayers”.
Simple fix, journos: stop lying, and people will stop despising you.
I don’t want you opinion, I want: “Just the facts Ma’am.”
Is that so hard to ask of these rubes?
The leftists speak in tongues.. These journalists are too personally invested in their stories to be journalists.. They all suffer from Stockholm syndrome..