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Study Fnds: Dangerous era for journalists: 1 in 5 TV news stations report employees attacked in 2020
WASHINGTON — Covering the news during a pandemic is not easy. Covering the news during a pandemic, election year, and growing civil unrest is apparently down-right dangerous, a new survey finds. According to the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), one in five television news stations say they have employees who were the victims of violent crimes last year.
The poll of 1,762 non-satellite TV stations and 3,379 radio outlets reveals journalists were threatened, assaulted, and even arrested at alarming rates across the U.S. in 2020. Overall, 20 percent of all TV news directors report that employees of theirs were attacked while on the job. That was especially prevalent in larger markets. In fact, nearly two in five news directors in the country’s top 25 markets say members of their newsroom reported being attacked.
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WNU Editor: This increase in violence against the news media is an indication of how polarized we have become, and the role that the media has played in making this happen.
Case in point.
I saw firsthand how the media reports and manipulates the news this past weekend when I was a witness to this .... Massive Anti-Covid-19 Lockdown Protest In Montreal (May 1, 2021).
The protest was massive, and the drone shots that I have seen since the demonstration make me wonder if there were even more people than the 75,000 that were there.
The local news covered it but ignored the numbers and instead focused on how 50 people had to be rescheduled to a different place for their vaccination. This made no sense. I was there, and the demonstration completely bypassed this vaccination center.
The national media was even worse. Their reporting was focused at the end of the demonstration, when the police used teargas to disperse the crowd while arresting those who resisted. They also downplayed the numbers. Saying only that it was a large demonstration.
For those who were part of this protest, and then going home to see how biased the reporting was on their protest. How can anything good come out from that?
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