Groundbreaking new research also reports that 11% of surveyed have faced physical violence in their reporting
  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Heck, journalists get threatened for their work anyway. It’s a fact of life in this profession.

    I’ve been in radio and TV since the early 2000’s and have been a newspaper writer since the mid 2010’s.

    We’ve gotten letters with bullets in them, ‘anthrax’ letters (they were all the rage post 9/11) and most recently we had two attacks with fireworks explosives on our building. Mind you, this is just a local newspaper. We’re not exactly the New York Times.

    I couldn’t tell you what reporting might’ve prompted it. Could’ve been the articles we wrote about wind farms, could’ve been climate change, could’ve been local politics or the soccer scores.

    Because these days, people get seriously outraged at basically nothing. Even the most neutral, strictly-the-facts reporting can set some folks off. So it’s not exactly surprising that a ‘controversial’ topic like anything related to climate change prompts threats.

    But: we keep reporting. Because fuck them. Facts are facts. Don’t like it? That’s a you problem.