Demonizing Journalists

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Mob Mentality

“Reporters who cover Trump on the campaign trail say his supporters have become more surly and abusive in the past week, egged on by a candidate who has made demonizing journalists part of his stump speech.”   

 —Paul Farhi, reporter, “The press always got booed at Trump rallies. But now the aggression is menacing,” The Washington Post, Oct. 14, 2016

• Editorial Comment: I don’t know. Why not? Can the crazy Drumpf get any less critical press?

 

PeezPix by Ted Pease

The Nursing Home Crisis, Humboldt County, October 2016












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