Threats to press during convoy protests a wake-up call, experts say

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Experts and advocates say the treatment of journalists, captured in many cases on video, during recent protests against public health measures should be a wake-up call.

"What I've seen over the last two days has been absolutely sickening," Brent Jolly, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, said in an interview Sunday.Journalists are working in an unprecedented difficult situation in Canada right now, he said, with threats being hurled at the press both online and in person.

Government also has a role to play and Jolly urged Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to take seriously the responsibility outlined in his mandate letter to combat serious forms of harmful online content. Most reporters will say they have been on the receiving end of accusations and hate, but Greenberg said something has changed.

"Younger BIPOC female reporters experience significantly more vitriol than their white male journalist counterparts do," he said. The impact can be more severe when attacks focus on a journalist's identity characteristics and raises concern that it may push some who already belong to under-represented groups to leave the industry.

 

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I am thankful to the Trucker Convoy solely for the fact that my eyes have been opened to the many corrupted media like you. misinformation

Experts = Woke liberals

What experts? Name name's please...

You are the enemy of the people!

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CBC claimed it was the Russians. Other media never even discussed that. Nice club.

Our tax dollars hard at work. We all know who you work for.

“Experts” did you use the facebook fact checkers?

Having a segment of the population that thinks being active in politics means threatening the press, members and candidates of parties they don't like, and assaulting people who wear masks means we have a large segment of the population who is radicalized. We need an inquiry.

I have been waiting for years to see media do an actual investigative story as to Why the hatred towards the Main Media . Walk the streets , coast to coast. Random people. And you will get your answer very quickly . But media won’t do that.Scared to get the answer

This for sure needs to be a wake up call. The main contention that people of right wing persuasion has is that the mainstream news is very tainted and bias towards left wing opinion. So for sure they're not going to trust the mainstream news.

A wake-up calls certainly is... for media to be nonpartisan and do reports in an objective and informative way. But how that could be possible when they are subsidized by the government.

We don't like fake news

'Experts' Journalists are partisan hacks and activists,they have hated normies for years, and now we hate them back.

Journalism is dead in this country. They are puppets of the government...then they cry when called out for it.

Will you wake up? Real Journalists or justinjournos 😒 cdnmedia need to ask themselves why so many Canadians distrust them and prefer to get their information elsewhere--even about getting vaccinated during a pandemic, which should be a slam dunk cdnpoli

The Press have brought this upon themselves. You can't continue to make people out to be evil and expect them to respect you. Start being responsible with your 'news' and people may regain trust in the organizations. Might be too late though since much damage was done.

The news is not what it used to be. Now that everyone carries a camera the story has already been established. MSM is last on the scene and no longer do research

Its quite simple.. stop selling the public on fake or manipulated news… tell the truth, stop protecting the ones putting millions of dollars into the medias hands to cover up for them. Even JT said it 8 years ago that the media is funded by the government

Yes a wake up call to the liberal media, you have lied to us for too long, you have changed the narrative and have instilled fear in the people for too long.

i assume u r referring to the jounalist who was pepper sprayed by THE POLICE. Then they assaulted her for videoing.

The entire event is a sign things are changing peoples views & idea of politics Our Canada is changing some politicians & others are being sucked into the American model of divisive abusive politics of rally’s being driven by misinformation and lies. We must not let that happen.

State media hates Canadians. Obviously.

Then you know where from the convoy 'ideas' and financing came from: TRUMP US of A MAGA!! 💩👎🗼

What do you expect from boors and hooligans? Charge them!

Aren't these the same people that scream 'Free Speech'. Oh right, only if they're allowed to speak. I forgot.

lol maybe ignoring it for so long wasnt the best idea ?

LMFAO

Certainly is MSM can not be trusted. It has become obvious they are propaganda news for blackfacedhitler

You put a govt spin on every story. If you were truly objective and reported on the news properly you would be invited within these protests.. but no, it's now fully apparent that all the msm is following a narrative. You're part of the problem and it's very sad to see.

If the told the truth they would not be getting attacked.

Ctv has been ignoring the plight of anyone who is against their paymaster and now is upset that people are frustrated about having their civil liberties stripped from them in an unprecedented manner.

Not really ... relax

Journalists and medical staff appear to be the most targeted recently. In AB, medical staff was told not to wear their scrubs to work due to being harassed. My mind cannot even get close to processing the degree of anger being seen in the videos and interactions mentioned.

There's no doubt that biased media support this white supremacist message by distorting this story and portraying these demonstrators as being exercising their right to free expression in violation of the government's directive. 1/2

Also police brutality. Is kneeing allowed?

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